Flor de Caña Gran Reserva 7-Year

Its subtly complex and certainly dry, with a dusty oak presence and a bit of a soured finish. As with the younger expressions, I like it best with fruit juices.

Tasty everyday mixer rum. Not too costly. Pretty decent availability.

Very good bargain for the price. Smooth, excellent mixed in a Cuba Libre.

While I found this to be a bit rugged neat, a few drops of water added new dimensions for me. Overall, though, pretty bland and unremarkable like most of Flor de Cana's offerings.

Great and cheap rum. Good taste Nice sipping. I like it with ice.

nice color, nose nothing special, smooth aftertaste. Just snother to try, nothing special to remember

Pe cat de tânăr pe atât de simplu. Cred că e special făcut pentru mix-uri.

Light brown colour, smooth and rich. Good to mix with juices or sparkling beverages, because it's not a complex rum.

I recently had 3 straight glasses of this on the rocks. For me, it passes as a sipping rum, but not my first choice. It was the best available.

Many years ago when I first tried the Flor De Cana rums from Nicaragua, I was so impressed that I had decided to do side by side taste tests for their amber rums of age 4, 7, and 12 years. This 7-year is definitely worth only a few bucks more than the 4-year, but I could not tell the 7-year and 12-year apart at that time. All I concluded was that the 12-year was a rip off, so I rarely ever bought the 7-year again. I have always been impressed by it, but there was still that nagging thought of being duped by marketing on the extra aging.

Now that I am contributing my own rum reviews to this site, I picked up another 7-year bottle of this amber rum. It is smooth with no excessive sweetness and can be used as a budget sipper, served on the rocks, or as a mixer. Not many rums can boast credit for all three. It is basically inoffensive and well worth the fairly low price. It is not the finest sipper, but for the price, you can't beat it.

Now that I can appreciate this rum since it wound up in my top 30 list, most of this bottle still remains after several months. In the old days, the whole bottle would be gone in only a few days. It wound up in third place among my dark rum budget sippers behind El Dorado 8 and Don Q Anejo respectively. After bidding farewell to my first and final bottle of the over rated Mount Gay XO, this Flor De Cana 7 was a welcome pleasant surprise. Sad but true! This one is also much better than the over priced Flor de Cana 18.