Really an excellent sipping rum. Take note , this is a rhum agricole, or cane juice rum. Nearly all other rums are made from molasses, a by-product (some would say a waste product) of the sugar refining process. This rum comes across much like a fine whiskey or bourbon with a hint of that rummy flavor we associate with traditional rum. You probably could convince many people they were drinking a whiskey finished in a rum cask. I prefer this neat, savoring the vanilla, wood, spice, and slight rummyness. You can mix it with Coke, but it will taste nothing like the typical rum and Coke you are use to, and then the uniqueness of this rum will be lost. I think of this as sugarcane whiskey because it is so different from molasses based rums.