soonershrink
Privateer Single Cask
Aged Rum — USA
Reviewed
December 17, 2021 (edited April 17, 2022)
Single cask store pick, 4 years 7 months, 59.7% ABV. First rum review. I'm pretty inexperienced with this spirit. I have a bottle of Mount Gay XO, and this is much better. The Mount Gay has an off note that I can't quite identify, but it's present all the way through from the nose to finish. The nose on this is pretty vanilla, both in the sense of kind of boring, but also sugary vanilla. The palate though surprises with much more depth than you expect given the nose. Could almost pass for a bourbon, maybe a rum-barrelled bourbon. Almost. Vanilla, caramel, pineapple, cherry. Upside-down pineapple cake. A little oak is present. This is quite good, although also quite sweet, which is also surprising since there are no additives - no added sugar, which I understand is common with many rums. I'm planning to sneak this into a blind whiskey tasting with friends to see how it comes across to others who don't know they're tasting a rum.
78.0
USD
per
Bottle
George's Liquors
Create Account
or
Sign in
to comment on this review
curious how it rates at the whiskey table... good notes, reminds me of the new appleton 15 select casks I wanna try but am not brave enough to drop $80 on...
@bigwhitemike that's funny, I actually remember seeing that somewhere recently. I hope Privateer can keep putting out bottles like this one.
If I recall, the very well-regarded master distiller from Privateer was recently hired to take over the role at the much larger Mt Gay… perhaps they will start to make up a little ground to stop being left in the dust by the little Massachusetts rum distillery that could!