Plantation O.F.T.D. Overproof Rum

69%!?

Overwhelming banana and citrus on the nose. Palate is more of the same with some dark cherry and brown sugar cinnamon notes.

Self note: FOR MIXING ONLY! Aromas of banana, tropical fruit mix, and hogo. Not bad. Flavors are faint artificial banana, and sweet, burning, hard cinnamon candy with a very dry finish on my tongue. Some anise through the retro-hale. Bleh! This is not a sipper. It's meant for mixing, in my opinion. Rating *NOT* based on neat sipping but as a mixer, where it works very well!

This rum is one of the cheapest bottles in my cabinet, yet it contends with some of the most expensive bottles. The aroma immediately hits me with pretzels (more accurately, charred paper and saline, but I assume less can relate to that), with molasses, banana, mandarine orange, and cinnamon undertones. The taste immediately hits with banana, molasses, mandarin, vanilla, pretzel, pineapple, and allspice. It then develops into a molassesy caramel creamed coffee that keeps the banana, mandarin, and toast undertones. It then has a long finish of molasses, cloves, orange peel, banana, caramel, cinnamon, chocolate, and coffee. When the chart says it is rich, it truly does mean it. The complexity is absurd for how much I have paid for the several bottles I have purchased. The mouthfeel is also incredibly oily like I would expect from an expensive fully pot still spirit. I can not state it enough how well this would do in a blind tasting against top shelf spirits.

69% makes it hot but it quickly gives way to a Jamaican funky sweet burnt molasses with hints of banana

Super smooth for something so young. Zero sugar.

No added sugar, unlike other Plantation blends. A miracle blend of cask strength rums, at 69%, from Guyana, Barbados and Jamaica. My choice is to add a small portion (3-4 ounces) with other rums, into my own rum blend bottle (El Dorado 8 and 12, and Appleton Estate 12). Even so, the OFTD shines through with a wonderful richness, depth and bite. Exceptionally drinkable. Oh Fuck, That's Delicious!