Contadora 18-Year

Un rom foarte bun! Suficient de fin, poate fi băut și sec. Echilibru perfect între arome și gust! Recomand oricând cu orice ocazie!

Nose: Calves leather, brown sugar, molasses, bourbon, hints of cedar, pipe tobacco, fruit, chocolate and brandy butter.

Palate: Absolutely amazing intensity with waves of soft brown sugar, toffee, spicy oak, cedar and pipe tobacco.

Finish: Long, warming finish in sweet, soft spices.

Bottle from Systembolaget, bought and tasted in August 2024.

I will never know if this individual bottle was actually defective, the result of some malevolent sorcery, or if it was simply crafted by a sadistic alchemist intent on ruining lives. Whether consumed neat or mixed, this rum is a vile insult to very notion of a drinkable spirit. If this result is what was actually intended, I can only assume that any glowing reviews were penned by lobbyists of the industrial fox poison industry, working to boost sales of their toxic concoctions.

Spending over $70 on this travesty, from a reputable vendor to boot, was a painful mistake. The nose and palate are a ghastly mix of rancid bitterness and sour, burnt soul. No further detailed notes should or will be provided, in order to protect potentially sensitive readers. In this case, and this case alone, I only wish that the finish was much, much shorter than it actually was.

In the movie "The Matrix", the character Switch laments: "Not like this... Not like this." I suddenly understand where she was coming from. This rum is nothing short of an abomination, and I would not recommend it to my worst enemy. I would perhaps consider offering it to Amon Göth, but even then, I would have ethical doubts. Still, this gets a rating as high as 2. In the interest of full disclosure, I must attest that there were no particularly prevalent notes of rubbish juice, fermented herring, or cyanide-infusion in this rum. (They were still there – just not prevalent.)