While here in Kauai, I convinced the family to make a quick pit stop at the Koloa rum tasting. Four rums, all quite decent—but this one here was my favorite. Christmas in a bottle. You get cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and brown sugar on the nose. Palette is the same. Surprisingly not sweet at all, and would be an amazing fall sipper The sheer amazing natural beauty of the Garden Isle probably added a bit of bias to the score…but nonetheless, this was the one bottle I gladly shelled out $30 for a purchase.