Tastes
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Smooth tasty rum, with little burn. It tastes after coffee, mollase, oak and hint of vanilla. It is bit sugary, so if you have dry palate, this could be bit too sweet to your taste. It is delicious sipper with mouthful of taste and nice little afterburn. The colour is almost coffee dark, so I'm not really trusting it is just from the barrel and not by caramel.
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Zaya is nice rum for sweet tooth folks. Interesting sweet chocolate smell. Strong caramel and decent chocolate taste, mollase hints with hits of vanilla and lime. I personally recommend this as ladies rum. Very rich (but sweet taste) for him and lovely caramel taste for her. This is birthday cake of rums.
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With nice sweet caramel, high sugar fruits (dates, figs, prunes) and chocolate bonbons smell comes to complex, but bit sweet taste (tastes like dark honey and candied fruits or dates/figs/prunes mix). A little bit of vanilla too, which is always nice. The sherry casks did their job to the top. This is a terrific sipper. First, the nice decent sweetness, the middle is smooth but with a little of roughnes and then, finally, the little burn, the warming end. With nice peppery tingling on end of the tongue. This is overall great sipper, aiming for a wide sippers audience. And for the price (in a sale you can get it for 950 CZK) the price/performance is really high. So extra point to the final rating for that.40.0 EUR per Bottle
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Higher proof but smooth, with lovely but bit alcohol smell, and superb balanced taste. The sweetness is right on spot, smooth vanilla caramel taste with hints of oak and nuts taste is so mellow it is almost perfect sipper for me. Although I cherish the Seleccion very much, the Barrel Proof just won my heart.100.0 EUR per Bottle
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Jim Beam Pre-Prohibition Style Rye
Rye — Kentucky, USA
Reviewed January 22, 2021 (edited February 7, 2021)At first I need to correct yet another error in Distiller. Description says 45%, but it's 40 %. Even this picture says so. Back to the drink: I love that fruity smell. Apple, pear and hint of cinnamon. Sweet, sweet baking. The taste is also nice, but little bit watery on the front. The undiluted product must be nice. But this is very gentle sipper. Sweet, fruity. And not really suitable for drinks and cocktails - it lacks the punch, the acidity and it just dissappear in any cocktail. It says "pre-prohibition" style, but it feels more "prohibition style" - take some nice whisky and water it down to make volume. That's sad, especially if the lingering taste profile is so nice. But try to guess it's rye in blind test, I dare you. -
It's actually 86 proof and not 80 as this database states. Well, the extra 3% ABV feels more like 15% in terms of the smoothness. Even if the smell is nice bourbon-ish and woody with hint of alcohol (above common expectation), the first sip and the first taste is rough, oaky as fuck. Then I can feel sweet corn, probably only taste benefit of acclaimed "sour mash". I'm trying to dig some more on taste profile, other than overall sting and tangy taste, maybe fining hints of cinnamon, but that's all. 1783 "small batch" is more like party bourbon - you can spice some punch with it, mix it with a little bit of Coke, give some kick to your eggnog. I like that in it. But this is definitely not sipping material, if you're wandering (as I was before).
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Don't get me wrong, this isn't bad bourbon. It's just not exactly the sipper. At original proof it's just bit too rough (if you're not intend to play a cowboy, chugging it around a campfire) and diluting (with water) making it rather bland. But something between that makes it great mixer. Old fashion to eggnog, you name it.
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