El Dorado Special Reserve 15-Year

Nose is sweet and licorice with cherry and molasses.
Lots of fruit and sweet on the tongue with cherry, vanilla, citrus, licorice and brown sugar.
Finishes smooth sweet then with a slight touch of dry.
This smells and tastes like a rum old fashioned.
I like this so much that I want to give this an 8, but it is a bit too sweet and lacks the depth of a 15 year old. Still a very good sipper.

This is the first rum that really got me started to look at rums more for sipping than as something used for mixing cocktails. And even though I've tasted many great rums over the years, this is the one that I always come back to when I'm wanting to taste something truly great. It's starts off sweet but soon adds a much more complex flavor profile as it lingers. Yeah, I know that there's some extra sugar added but I don't care as much about in this case. Plus, like almost all of the other El Dorado rums it's very affordable for what you're getting. It's truly special!

Great aroma, full body taste, best served on the rocks.

Now this is rum! The initial taste is sweet and smooth but it has so much depth as well. It has a thicker mouth feel with only a hint of molasses, honey and oak. I'd put this with the sweeter rums and definitely in my top five so far. Drink it neat or with one or two rocks.

Smooth as can be while still full flavored. Great sipping rum

I tried this after I bought 3 different rums to see what I like. The other 2 rums had a much more pronounced aroma and since taste and scent are bound together this rum left less of an impact than the other 2 during the tasting. I can say, however, that when we came back a couple of hours later it was the El Dorado I poured another glass of and I got a better feel for the taste of the rum.

A darker colored rum. Very little after burn but you do feel the alcohol in a pleasant warming of the chest. Very mild aroma and taste. Very smooth, would be a good sipping rum for someone who doesn't like stronger scents or flavors. It's mild flavors may not make it a good mixing rum. Very mild floral and brown sugar taste, the mild taste is kind of surprising considered the dark color.

Found the 15 yr after a lot of searching and was, at first, impressed but not blown away. This has changed with each new tasting. Quickly this rum has surpassed all others for its smoothness and flavor. Yet to try the 12 or 21 yr but this is a truly impressive rum

Nice taste with a mild taste, elegante flavour. Perfect as a avec with coffe and a piece of cake.

El Dorado 15 is one of my favourites sipping rum more Woody flavor compared to the 12yrs old but same great taste, this rum make the perfect married with cigars. I you never tried is time for you to do it.

Very nice and a little edgy rum. It has a fairly fruity scent to start with, rich and a little sweet. When tasting it I find a fairly dominant whiskey tone, or might it even be drawn towards cognac? I don't find the taste particularly sweet compared to other rums, rather a little bitter, but very pleasant, pretty much like I usually find whiskeys and brandy. Sweetness seems to come from vanilla and fruit tones, but I find the oak cask is the biggest influence on taste. Aroma is however sweet and has a clear sugar cane flavor to it. After taste is the same rich fruity flavor as in the scent. It grows on you. I might come back an raise the score later on.