Ron Zacapa 23 Sistema Solera Rum

This rum is fantastic! On the nose I get a banana vanilla smell that reminds me of getting a delicious serving of banana pudding with vanilla wafers, along with like a caramel and coffee. The taste is incredible, no harshness whatsoever. Smooth with that banana cream flavor at first that matures into that coffee caramel flavor after and ends with a nice bitter sweet dark chocolate on the finish. This rum is like that girl you always have on call because she gives the best head that no other girl can replicate.

An excellent gateway into sweet sipping rums, but that’s about it. Once you dive into the El Dorados and the Kirk and Sweenys and the Plantations of the world, this just tastes to artificial and one note. Bitter entry, sweet palette, bittersweet finish. There’s really not much complexity to it at all compared to its price point competition, which is why I don’t buy it anymore, but as a gateway drug, it more than does its job.