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Plantation Xaymaca Special Dry
Gold Rum — Jamaica
Reviewed
November 4, 2020 (edited November 12, 2020)
If you need the funk, if you gotta have that funk, this is the rum for you.
Massive hogo funk on the nose, which is tamed slightly by time in the glass, but still hefty. There’s molasses, caramel and ripe bananas too. Rich on the palate with caramelized brown sugar, honey and muted tropical fruits. Short finish is woody with a slight bitterness.
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@ContemplativeFox Thanks for providing the analysis! Sounds like it’s worth a pickup, and fortunately it’s also $25 here.
Appleton 12 is nowhere near as funky as this is. It's been a while since I had Smith & Cross, but I recall it having more of your standard Jamaican funk. I haven't had another rum like this one. It's quite young and sweet with a lot of varied fruit flavors that get right up in your face. The smokiness and tartness give it (IMHO) a bit of a hint of soy sauce when combined with the other flavors. At $25, I felt like this rum was a good buy. It's a little tricky to use in cocktails though because of how fruit centric it is. It doesn't add the clarity of a light rum or the boldness of a dark rum, so it tends to get a little lost underneath the fruit. @ctbeck11
I was thinking about picking up a bottle of this. I have bottles of Appleton 12 and Smith & Cross, which both bring the funk to varying degrees. Do you feel this offers something I may be missing in these others? Rums seem to be very category-driven (and I’d mostly be using this in cocktails), so I don’t want to overdue it on too many bottles that fulfill a single category.
Nailed it. It doesn't get much funkier than this.
I love balance between hogo and indulgent sweetness. I expect it from rum, Im not going to complain a rum is too sweet but its nice to have that funk offset. Nice review