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The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Analytics'. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. It’s a much different rum and one that requires more reflection than the pure joy that’s bottled up in the Exquisito, but it’s also a rum with purpose and with a soul. Here we find more of the bittersweet - chocolate, very dark caramel, torched walnuts, and curious notes of olive pits and indistinct savory spices. Brooding and woody, with notes of roasted coffee beans, burnt sugar, coconut husks, and leatherbound books on demonology. The body is a real departure from the sugar-forward rums that precede it. A / $90 īacardi Facundo Paraiso – The big guy, made of rums up to 23 years old (with an emphasis on the oldest rums), each individually filtered, then blended and married in French oak casks for at least one month. Lots going on here, and it fires on all cylinders. The body is dense and layered, with notes of plums, raisins, chocolate pie, more toffee, and spiced (lightly smoked) almonds. This is a remarkably balanced and fun rum, offering an immediate nose of coffee, toffee, cigar box, and mincemeat pie. The finished blend is aged a further month in sherry casks for a minimum of one month for finishing. A- / $60 īacardi Facundo Exquisito – A blend of runs 7-23 years old (some filtered) but quite dark in color. Nutty notes evolve as the finish pushes along, with leather, raisins, and more of those Madeira notes. The body again amps up the fruit, particularly the tropical notes of pineapple and mango, swirled with caramel notes. Wait a bit, and what emerges is a woodier experience with the essence of nuts, Madeira, and baking spices. Again the nose starts off hot, tempering some of the more delicate notes in the rum. This is the only rum in the collection that is blended before it goes into barrels for aging. A- / $45 īacardi Facundo Eximo – 10-12 years old, unfiltered. Not at all heavy on the alco-burn scale, but rather a delightfully tropical rum that mixes fruit with just the lightest tough of red pepper flake. On the palate, quite a different animal, with distinct and strong banana, coconut, and creme brulee notes.

Hints of orange peel, lemon, roasted nuts, and black pepper emerge after a time. Lots of raw alcohol notes on the nose here it cuts a surprisingly young profile.

Thoughts on the four-expression lineup follow.īacardi Facundo Neo – Made from rums 1-8 years old, then filtered back to white (almost, anyway). In celebration of 150(ish) years in business, this collection celebrates Bacardi’s legacy with some rums that Facundo would certainly have been proud to have his name on.Īll rums are aged expressions sourced from the Bahamas and are bottled at 80 proof. While expressions like 1873 Solera, 8 Anos, and Oakheart are nods in this direction, the Facundo collection is something entirely different: Real, “sipping rums” that you’ll shell out up to $250 a bottle for.įacundo is named for Facundo Bacardi, the Spanish-Cuban founder of the Bacardi empire back in 1862. Now Bacardi is taking its first real steps upmarket. Best known for its unavoidable white rum and a plethora of flavored expressions, Bacardi dominates the market by keeping prices low and consumers inundated with clever advertising. Bacardi is a name synonymous with rum, but it is not a name that is synonymous with high-end rum.

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