Bayou XO Mardi Gras
Those who enjoy smooth, sweet-leaning rums with vanilla, brown sugar and gentle oak, and bourbon or sherry drinkers looking for an easy American rum sipper.
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How does this rum taste?
Most enjoy its smooth, woody-sweet profile and easy drinkability. Critics find it overpriced and only moderately complex. Consensus: a pleasant, gourmand rum tailored to a sweeter, US-oriented palate.
If you like soft, bourbon-cask sweetness and don’t need huge complexity, this fits nicely—but if you chase funky power or strict value, your money’s better elsewhere.
Fans of high-ester funk or very complex rums, value-focused buyers, and drinkers who dislike sweeter, wood-driven profiles.
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About the Bayou distillery
The Bayou distillery is located in USA. Rums from Bayou have been reviewed 138 times with an average of 7.1/10.
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Overall an OK rum, but quite overpriced. Tasted it at the Stockholm Beer & Spirits Fair 2023. This Louisiana rum from Bayou is a molasses rum. The sugarcane has grown in the soils around the Mississippi River Delta. After fermentation it’s distilled in a copper pot still whereafter it’s aged in ex-bourbon barrels and finished in ex-sherry barrels for a total aging of up to 6 years using the Solera method.
A very nice and fruity rum. A nice everyday and easy to drink rum.
Not worth the price (too expensive)Very nice bottle (nice finish)Very greedy
👃 I smell candied fruit, wood, burnt grass and a little vanilla. 👄 Caramel, a little honey and the roundness brought by sherry are added as I drink it, with a short finish. The result is an average 6-year-old rum, far from West Indian standards but probably suited to its domestic market.