Ratu Signature Rum Liqueur

Appearance: Transparent dark amber. Clear - no particulate matter. Aroma: Orange, vanilla, coconut. Flavour and Texture: Orange curacao, vanilla, coconut syrup, milk chocolate, milk coffee. A thick, soft liquid with a slight ethanol grip around the sides of the mouth. Very sweet and lingering. This is an OK liqueur but it suffers from two faults. First, the flavours seem one-note and artificial - I'm sure they have used synthetic flavourings rather than natural products. Second, these flavours swamp the palate and there is virtually no rum character apparent. I'd wager that if you took half a glass of any bottom-shelf dark rum and added a jigger each of the cheapest orange curacao, coconut syrup, vanilla syrup, cacao syrup, and simple syrup you'd be 99% of the way to reproducing this. It's acceptable (in small doses) but not particularly impressive. At the price I certainly wouldn't buy it again, however if you have a sweet tooth and like the sound of the flavour profile you might find this to your taste. "Adequate" : 70/100 (2 stars)

quite sweet with heavy chocolate notes

Very unique product. Chocolate, coconut, coffee. Overly sweet being a liqueur. Tone it down by adding ice or milk. Think Baileys but 10x better. Over icecream is delish!