LVMH Cuba Ron S.A. Eminente Gran Reserva Edition No. 1 2013

There’s clearly a lot more going on here than in the 7-year-old. More coffee, wood, vanilla, and roasting. At least the nose benefits a lot from the three years. The silkiness on the palate is missing here, but it’s much more engaging. A very pronounced wood note forms the base, with mocha and dry vanilla taking the lead. A nicely rounded thing, with just a slight drift into very dry wood in the finish.

Really tasty Cuban. Very round, nice sweetness, balanced profile with tobacco, oak, dried fruit, sweet coffee notes...a harmonious aroma spectrum without extremes makes for relaxed drinking at a great level. Great rum in a moderate price range.

I find the nose very restrained, with delicate aromas of wood and honey. It is soft and light on the palate. The dilution is a little too strong for my taste. Notes of wood, coffee and spice dominate. It lacks complexity... I find it too one-dimensional.

A fruity nose of yellow fruit, carambola and dried fruit, marked by wood but without excess, dried fruit with a herbaceous/floral edge. The palate is on cigar box (cedar), with dried fruit and yellow fruit in the background, but also wood and a very pleasant floral side. The finish is rather short, but cigar-box and floral aromas linger for quite a long time. A fine rum, pleasant to drink, and well above anything I've tasted before from Eminente. I particularly like its floral side.

Round, balanced and simply delicious. A real surprise that shows the strong potential of Cuban rums as complex sippers.

Elegant, full-bodied and not uninteresting new Cuban. Overall, I think I personally like the 7 better in terms of PLV and mixability, as there is a little too much wood, tobacco and too much cognac influence in terms of taste. The aguardiente component, which you can definitely smell and also taste discreetly, is also exciting... But PLV is debatable here... Thanks to Torben for the sample!

Pub LiQ Bar Düsseldorf March 2025. Next up, an Eminente. It's very woody on the nose, but coffee is also easy to recognize. On the palate, the coffee then predominates for me, and wood and honey are also recognizable.

RumX Eminente Tasting 20.12.2023

Tasted during the RumX Eminente tasting. Appealing good Cuban rum. Much more expressive compared to the few other Cubans I know.

9:On the nose this rum is intense, elegant and complex and round - the initial aroma of freshly roasted coffee, red fruits, and flowers gives way to a touch of honey and vanilla with a nice almost minty freshness. 9:On the palate, it is well-balanced, unctuous and deep with a fruity profile, driven by dried apricot and orange blossom with notes of sandalwood, hazelnut, and allspice. 8,8:The finish is silky, persistent, and sweet with the spicy character of Sichuan pepper, caramel, pine sap and saffron. Highly recommend this wonderful stuff. So young, so smooth and so silky-shortly:A superb summery sipper..

A little more robust than its little brother. The presence of aguardiente can be felt in greater quantities than in the other bottle in the range. Honeyed without excess. Frankly woody. Not bad at all.

This is significantly better than its young jollege, the Reserva. Very smooth from nose to finish, lots of caramel and coffee but also slightly herbal notes. Overall, a very uncomplicated rum in which the 43.5% are quite well integrated.

RX Eminente tasting on 20.12. The Ambar Claro pleases as an easy sipper, the 7-year-old Reserva scores with wood and spices, the Gran Reserva No.1 is even more intense and multi-faceted. It is also my favorite with the cigar...

The third one of the Eminente Tasting. I am a bit disappointed, expecting more maturity from this compared to it's younger versions. The Aguardiente still comes strong, and I found it a bit domineering for a rum mainly supposed to be a sipper... The intensity of the Aguardiente mutes other notes, it still prickles on the tongue. Of course it gives the Cuban DNA more intensity, fruit and power, but that's maybe better for Cocktails than for a drink to be sipped in the evening - at least for me. Otherwise it is a good rum, definitely better than lots of readily available Spanish Rums in the "Premium" Segment.

Very round and sweet. Balanced sipper.