When the collaboration with Luca ended, they started bottling them under their own El Dorado Rare Collection brand. Distinctive and different - perhaps it's those wooden stills - this is layers of molasses, a dry but gentle woodiness, and noticable edge of something almost liquorice.

No doubt though that this is amongst the finest rums available with the caveat that this is on the sweeter side. The 5 is a good baseline rum, the 12 a more complex drink, the 21 is rich, but the 15 is just delicious with a depth of flavour that evolves. I don’t do hydrometer tests, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the new 15 has very little to no added sugar. I can instantly smell brown sugar, dark fruit (prunes and dates), vanilla, a little spice and what can only be described as liquorice. Guyana has long been associated with the growing of sugar cane and by extension the production of rum.A great spread of flavours: grilled tropical fruit with smooth oaky spice - silky, vibrant and moderately full-bodied. El Dorado is on a mission to create the smallest environmental footprint in rum, this means taking responsibility for the way we source, distill and transport the world’s best rum. With its various stills, no other rum distillery in the world offers such a variety and range of different styles of rum.

Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. A delicious blend of Caribbean rum, El Dorado 15 Year Old marries spirits from the Enmore and Diamond Coffey stills, the Port Mourant double wooden pot still and the Versailles single wooden pot still. For many people this will be rum heaven but if you prefer a more austere style you might find this a touch sweet. The bottle of El Dorado Special Reserve 15-year was inspired by the the old hand-blown flasks used by sugar planters on the banks of the Demerara river. There's definitely more barrel character here which makes this a bolder and oakier rum though still with the same basic flavour profile as the 12 yr old.Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Created on the banks of Demerara, our smooth and uniquely complex El Dorado aged rums represent over 300 years of Caribbean rum crafting. El Dorado 15YO Rum has a full nose packed with dark coffee, candied orange, almonds, dark chocolate, pepper and rich vanilla. Faithfully continuing to use our original wooden heritage stills, we are masters in skilfully coaxing out rich and rich diverse characters from within the spirit. Let me take you back many years to a very fortunate moment where I was sitting at a bar with Shaun Caleb, master distiller of DDL.

The thing that’s thrown a bit of a shadow over DDL in enthusiast circles is the rumour that they are adding sugar to their rums. War die alte Abfüllung noch eine ziemliche Zuckerbombe, so ist die neue Version staubtrocken, herb und holzig, ähnlich ein guter Cognac oder Single Malt. The General Wine Company is a family-owned and operated wine merchant in Liphook, Hampshire, England.Full nose packed with dark coffee, candied orange, almonds, dark chocolate, pepper and rich vanilla. Long acknowledged as the Caribbean’s premier rum, continuously winning major awards over the past decade, El Dorado 15 Year Old Special Reserve is viewed as a fine, cognac-like rum possessing the most intriguing and complex character in its class. Being that I prefer drinking my rum neat, the fact that I have to add water to improve the flavor drops the rating to an 8.