El Dorado 21
Those who enjoy smooth, sweet dessert-style rums and want a relaxed, low-ABV Demerara sipper with chocolate, caramel and wood rather than intensity or funk.
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How does this rum taste?
Most enjoy its silky sweetness, chocolate, wood and dried fruit. Critics find it too sugared, low in strength and lacking depth for 21 years. Consensus: comfy, mass-market sipper, not an enthusiast benchmark.
If you like El Dorado 12 or 15 and want something a bit older, this keeps the same sweet, easy style—just don’t expect a big step up in power or complexity.
Enthusiasts seeking dry, complex, high-proof Demerara or anyone avoiding added sugar; also less ideal for value-focused buyers expecting 21-year depth.
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About the Demerara Distillers Ltd distillery
The Demerara Distillers Ltd distillery is located in Guyana. Rums from Demerara Distillers Ltd have been reviewed 3,188 times with an average of 7.8/10.
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This stuff is the best I have had ever had the pleasure of tasting... Delicate flavours throughout the whole drink on the rocks... It's amazing Really good... If you have any money this should be a definate purchase... To mix it is a Sin Christmas cake. Hints of tobacco and sandalwood, leading into s smokiness. Sultanas, dates, blackcurrant and macadamia
super tasty. Similar to 15y. Price difference 15y not worth it
Had in Becketts Exeter- silky smooth.
Pulito, preciso, delicato, rotondo, equilibrato, finale aromatico. Un vero dolcetto che prende il meglio dal 15 e dal 12 e lo evolve ancora oltre abbracciando con una raffinatezza e dolcezza tipica della distilleria