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Bacardi Carta Blanca

PRODUCER: Bacardi Brown Forman

AREA OF ORIGIN: Puerto Rico

VARIETY: White rum

ABV: 37.5%

WEBSITE: www3.bacardi.com

Familiarity can breed contempt but this rum is a success because of its quality. This is the world famous version of Bacardi, the one seen in tens of thousands of bars, and there are very good reasons for its global success. White rums were considered to be harsh, crude, and unrefined until they were reinvented by the company’s founder, Don Facundo, who introduced charcoal filtration to remove the rum’s impurities, and oak-ageing to smooth the raw edges of the spirit and produce a mellow, clear, white rum. This is a perfectly good rum, but it is deliberately smooth and unchallenging – and this might not appeal to serious rum drinkers.