Plantation Pineapple Stiggins' Fancy Rum

Soft, even rum. Alcohol does not dominate, but this drink cannot be called outstanding.

Rating: 15/23 This is really a mixer, but it's a weird one. I think I'll start reviewing it like a spirt, then switch to reviewing it like a mixer. N: That usual rum burnt sugar bitterness and funk, but with loads of sweet tropical fruit. I get orange and pineapple for sure. Maybe a touch of banana and mango. It smells like a tropical rum, but not like a liqueur. Vanilla and hints of fireworks. Overall, a nice nose, but not all that amazing. Just tropical enough to be kind of interesting though. P: Sweet and mellow. This comes across like a 40% ABV spirit that's bordering on a liqueur. There's a nice amount of rum flavor going on here with hogo and caramel and vanilla and burnt sugar. There's also pineapple, orange, banana, and papaya. It's quite approachable and very tropical, but it's definitely weak. One could drink it neat, but it's better suited for a summery cocktail. There is a bit of nice wood with some mild tannins and maybe a hint of chocolate as well. F: Lingering sweetness from the various flavors is muddled and watery. I could go into more detail, but that doesn't seem necessary. I'm not a fan of this. - Conclusion - This is not a great sipper, but I bet it works well as a mixer. Although I would normally rate it as a neat spirit because it's technically a rum, this is so clearly a mixer that I'll rate it as that. I like how this mellows out Pusser's Gunpowder Proof (15/23) and adds a bit of pineapple and sweetness. Considering this, I'm thinking that I'll be going with at least a 15. I appreciate that this maintains the minimum spirit proof of 40% ABV, while bringing in some natural pineapple flavor. It's quite nice in that respect. Mixing it with a bolder rum and an amaretto, I get the base of a nice cocktail here. The real problem is that this needs to be the biggest component for the profile to work. That restrained pineapple doesn't compare with pineapple juice at all. I still like this, but I do wonder what its purpose is. I tried my cocktail with this, Disarrono, and Pusser's Gunpowder against Panamá-Pacific 23 (16/23) and found that the Panamá-Pacific was mellower and more mature. This is more tropical, sweet, and fun. This is a tough call, but I find the vanilla woody mellowness from the Panamá-Pacific to be comparable or better than this. So I think that this is a 15 or 16. So does some of this improve the Panamá-Pacific? It's not the most obvious call, but I'd say that it does, a tad. But very faintly. As a result, I'd give this a 16. Honestly, this struggles a tad to even achieve that. This could be a 15. The more I try this, the less I think of it, unfortunately. After all of this tasting. I'm thinking that this should be downed to a 15. How disappointing.

Milk chocolate on the nose, woody with well balanced pineapple notes at the finish. Quite nice but not the best

This is one of the best rums I have had. I don’t like flavored rum, however I was intrigued by this bottle and it being from Jamaica so I tried it. It is awesome!! It is not like other flavored runs that just taste like cheap syrups. It is very smooth with still sweet rum in it. Very light burn. Great on ice or with juice.

Pineapple was tough to detect in the nose. Not much was there for me. So maybe it was me. But I definitely got it on the tongue. Right at first I picked up the sugary sweetness. Then the alcohol then the pineapple. The pineapple lingered quite nicely for a bit.