Bacardí Reserva Ocho 8 Year

Woody, but smooth and vanilla

Sweet, vanilla, and smooth

Heavy oak, vanilla, slight sweetness, smooth. Great as a mixer.

Perfectly acceptable, and vastly superior to their main stable. Candy apple, vanilla, a bit of smoke, much smoother than expected. Finish is lackluster and I see where people are getting bitter/plastic/sour. It’s not enough for me to refuse it if offered, but I probably will have this be my only purchase of the liquor.

Neat. Deep copper color. Nose is molasses, stone fruit, wood, vanilla, some baking spices. Taste is sweet with burnt molasses, leather, tobacco, hogo funk, fruitcake, smoke. Finish is long, woody, funky, sweet, and bitter. Interesting sipper, but I can see this shining in cocktails. Would definitely add some nice complexity to many rum drinks