Cartavio XO <18yr 40%

"This is a very sweet rum with nice fruits and spices. I like this rum for sweet desserts and making chocolate rum cake."

"A Hispanic rum with attractive packaging. The nose focuses on sweet notes of caramel, burnt sugar, chocolate, vanilla and spices, but displays a slightly stronger temperament than usual, with dark aromas of wood, coffee and roasted notes. It's a little out of the ordinary for a ron. The ron is diluted and caramelized on the palate, with brown sugar, vanilla, chocolate, spices, wood, a little dried fruit and hazelnut. It's simplistic, sweet but not too sickening. It's easy to drink, especially for beginners. The finish is short, on roasted, sweet notes, with a background of raisin. Perhaps one of the most drinkable Hispanic rums, but very expensive for what it offers."

"The taste is complex and delicate, with notes of dried fruits, vanilla, walnut and sherry! The taste ends balanced, slightly spicy - quite delicious actually."

"Caramel doesn't impress much and already spells trouble. And it will come in the next moment when you taste this rum. Sugar, vanilla, caramel, and then caramel, vanilla, sugar. Nothing for me. It's so sweet it made my mouth water 😃"

"And again and again and again. I feel like I have drunk this cover of a mediocre pop song over and over again. Too expensive for cola and way too uninteresting for sipping. This may have virtue for the cigar crowd but somehow I have doubts"

"A great representative of the "Spanish" style. Some fruit on the nose in the direction of raisins and sherry, more prominent are nutty aromas, especially walnut. Very similar on the palate, lots of nuts and dried fruit and of course the cask. A little sweeter and unfortunately a little weak at 40%, more would be great here!"

"Very easy to go to sipping rum. One of the entries into the diversity of rum for me. A sweetness in the nose, and very flavorful, with notes of butterscotch, vanilla and tropical fruits. Good for almost anyone, and works well with desserts"

"Ein süßer Rum mit Sherry-Note. In der Nase süßrumtypisch Karamell, Schokolade und Vanille. Am Gaumen überzeugt er mit seiner Komplexität. Gewürze, Vanille, Schokolade und Sherry. Eine wirklich interessante Mischung."

"Sample no 9 of the 24 days of rum 2022. Fancy sweet rum. Reminds me of Dos Maderas 5+5 or Selección for roughly half a price. Very nicely balanced sweet rum. Hints of coffee, toffee, nougat, caramel and raisins, maybe sherry. It is not overly sweet even though it is rather sweet a lot but thanks to how it is balanced it is not a problem. If I would have a chance to grab it in some discounted price below 40€, I would go for it. Otherwise it does not make sense I would rather go for Dos Maderas."