Ron Zacapa Solera Centenario 23 <23yr 40%

"This is a very well balanced rum from Zacapa and I like is a lot especially considering the price tag. The nose is heavy with spice and sweetness and a touch of orange zest and chocolate. The palate is well rounded with caramel, honey and chocolate topped of with burnt oak and overripe fruits. It has a long, sweet and fruity finish with burnt oak. I'd say this one is better than the bottling from the late 90s and early 00s that won medals. Price to quality is very good. "

"Emphatically pleasing and widely distributed - one of the rums that probably every rum lover has already had once in the glass. With some typical rum aromas, but overall quite overloaded by the very dominant sweetness."

"Back to the roots 😎😝 A long time ago… Back in 2020 this was my start into this wonderful magick world of RUM😎 BTW it’s good for desert and the sweet-rum-lovers. The alcohol is very dominant here! Also the price tag is too high (in my opinion), you can get easily some better rums out there."

"Probably the maximum of many hotel bars, but suitable for gentlemen's evenings at best as an unspectacular starter. Relatively flat, short and somewhat boring. If it has to be Spanish style at all, I would almost prefer the Cuban Eminente, even if it is supposedly much younger."

"This is the rum that started it all. A bottle as a gift from a friend. At first it sat unopened in the cupboard for a long time - I was more preoccupied with my whisky bottles at the time. At some point I opened it to be able to answer the repeated question 'how does it taste': quite nice but nothing compared to Highland Park 18 or Laphroiag 10. Guests and myself were given a glass every now and then until the bottle was almost empty without it being noticed. I then took more time with the last 3-5 cl and lo and behold, an interesting tobacco/smoky note, burnt sugar. Not at all uninteresting! And then, of course, the questions: Is that all rum can do? Are there also cask strength bottlings? Are there flavor monsters like whisky? And the answers: No! Yes! YES! So, thank you Zacapa 23 for pointing out the door to the rum world! And today I've had it in my glass again for a long time. And I confess it's better than I remembered. Sure, it's not cask strength and the Spanish style is generally not my first choice. But the fine spice, chocolate, cask and dried fruit are well balanced and give a very rounded impression. An everybodys darling outside the rum scene. And that is also its greatest weakness: too arbitrary, too pale, too round. It was nice to be able to try it again, but it will be some time before we meet again 😉"

"Rather boring, nothing new, it is seen and seen again. If you like sweetness it's something you might like, very sweet, very much focused on caramel and honey both in the nose and in the mouth and a pronounced alcohol taste. For the same price, I'd go for something else."

"Pleasant but too sweet for my taste"