Port Mourant & Uitvlugt & Diamond El Dorado Blended In The Barrel PM ICBU SVW

 Exciting blend! Diamond brings the sweetness and caramel, Port mourant the herbs and spice, uitvlugt the typical bitter and woody pencil shavings. Nice entry rum into the Guyana world and very balanced! For me in terms of complexity the best of the 4 blended in the barrel editions!🙏

 Because I had the third one, I decided to give that one a go as well. This was a step backwards from the previous one, but at least you get the demarare part. I wonder what would have been the end result had these 3 been matured individually, a rare cask? The 3 destillates have been blended in the barrel right after being destilled and the aged together. The price is too high for these 2010 bottles.

 Dark chocolate, vanilla and fruit on the nose, but also somehow musty. Then fruity, spicy, bitter and woody in the mouth. Only after a while can you taste the things you could smell before. The finish is rather sharp and doesn't seem very harmonious to me. The price also makes it uninteresting.

 Rumfest finally gave me the chance to taste these much-maligned bottles. Yes, it's (very) expensive for ten-year-old rum, despite the tropical aging, and that's my biggest complaint. It's quite full-bodied, perhaps a little too much so, given El Dorado's usual caramel character. But in the end, it's good, like El Dorado 21 (2020 version) only a little better. The bottles are pretty close to each other, but they're blends, so that explains it too. All in all, I think these bottles, priced at around €100, would be a good deal for discovering some nice Guyanese blends that are pleasant and accessible, without going for something very specific. That may well have been the idea, but unfortunately it was far too expensive. The purple one was my favorite.

 Too sweet

 Nose less refined than the other blended in the barrel bottlings, more alcoholic edge, some nuts and orange. The mouth is a bit more unusual, bitterness and clove with some wood to back it up. Finish is medium and reasonable, a bit of salt and anise and more pencil shavings. Less caramel and sweetness but not sure it is all the better for it. Middle of the pack

 The edgiest rum in the range. Typical Demerara notes. Not as sweet and caramelly as the other three in the series.

 Krasna mahagonova barva, sladkost ve vuni jako kdybych tam citit tmavou cokoladu v sherry. Alkohol je prijemne integrovan. Kratky dojezd, nijak zajimave jinak v chuti. Vube je lepsi jak chut. Maly vzorek mi staci.