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Guatemala | Aged | 40% ABV | Column Still (1-4)
Ron Zacapa 23 Solera Rum was created in 1976 in the highlands of Guatemala, where it is distilled in a copper-lined column still from fresh cane juice before solera aging.
The 500 year-old Spanish Sistema Solera method is used to age Ron Zacapa 23 in white oak casks. This results in a combination of rums aged between 6 and 23 years.
The current Ron Zacapa 23 bottle features a woven band around the middle, which is in reference to the original hand woven palm leaf petate bottle cover that covered the bottle.
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Ron Zacapa 23 Solera is more sophisticated than Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva, not is sweet and cost $10 more. If you are not Connoisseur and just want to make your Mrs tipsy -save $10.
A fabulous smooth fllavor, I donβt even put an ice cube in it
Ron Zacapa is really good. Bold yet refined taste. Very pleasant and enjoyable.
Sweet on the nose, some apple and caramel notes. Well rounded with a bit of heat.
Ein Rum ohne Vielseitigkeit und ohne deutlichen Geschmacksnoten. Hergestellt um jedermann zu schmecken....
23 g of added sugar per litre and a very young rum with lots of caramel. Totally uninteresting and highly overrated.
...and then i realized - nope; thats dark chocolate. The major note in this to me is dark chocolate. I get slight amounts of heavily salted caramel right before the finish. Its sweet, but not necessarily in a good way. Its sweet in the way that a not-dark-enough-dark-chocolate, or a a-little-too-dark-milk-chocolate, is sweet. The finish is long, which would be good except for it being tinged with the flavour of sugar cane husk, a flavour that I have only been able to describe as "green". The transitions between these flavours are very smooth and pair well together. It would be an excellent rum if I loved dark chocolate or that agricole flavour but personally its not my favourite. Certainly decent from time to time though
When I tried this for the first time, I thought it was ok. The more I had it, the less I liked it. It tasted a bit sweet and come to find out this rum is very "doctored" (adding sugar to the finished product to sweeten and smoothen). Definitely This is not always a "bad" thing, I just like to know whether the rum I'm drinking is doctored or not. Zacapa gives no indication that their rum is doctored. Another review on this rum mentioned how this brand deliberately lies about adding sweetener to their rum.
Regarding the rum, the nose is strong with caramel, brown sugar, and some vanilla. The palate is much the same with a burnt brown sugar and caramel.
Not too bad, but seriously overrated.
Its easy to drink, but it lacks body and identity.
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Yeah it's a good one, but expansive. It's like an everyday Ron after you taste more excellent Ron, I definitely prefer the XO