This rum (ron) in leather sack, which is nice but unnecessary - the bottle with crest is beauty by itself. The colour of the rum is in coffee - mahagony - hazelnut brown pallete. Smell is sweet, caramel - chocolate, rich with little alcoholic pinch. The taste is rather sweet, oak with mollase and nuts, but there is that bitter acid aftertaste lingering through every tasting note. Not my favourite rum, but tasty and interesting.