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Appleton Estate 21 Year Limited Edition
Aged Rum — Jamaica
Reviewed
December 5, 2023 (edited December 6, 2023)
Day 5. Something completely different. Rum. Old Rum.
Appleton is in general a good pick for a sipping Rum. The 12 year old is perfectly fine, but the 21 year is a lot more interesting.
On the nose, you get typical vanilla and brown sugar notes. There is also a lot more spicy oak than on younger variations. Fruit notes come through in the form of stewed, dark fruits. Think plums, cinnamon, that in warm and with a shot of rum added while cooking. Perfect for this time of the year.
On the taste you find a lot that the nose promised, with oak and vanilla being on the front end. There is also some brown sugar, but it is a lot less sweet than I expected. That is a good thing, Rum has a tendency to toe the sweetness line, and sometimes just breaks through it. This one is in shouting distance of that line, still there, but nowhere near going to far. The dark fruits on the nose also change into stewed apples and such, a bit lighter and more "aerial". There is also something in here that reminds me of ginger, but that might be the oak in combination with the brown sugar notes. Very nice.
The aftertaste is of medium length, mostly oak and fruit with a bit of bitterness. This is a Rum that you can enjoy neat, but it would also work in some of the sweeter cocktails to balance out the sweetness of other ingredients.
All in all, I like this one. Kinda unfortunate that it came before tomorrows offering (yes, I peeked), because tomorrow we have another Rum, on the opposite end of the spectrum. We will see hot it holds up. Cheers.
120.0
EUR
per
Bottle
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