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Bacardi Gran Reserva Maestro de Ron

PRODUCER: Bacardi Brown Forman

AREA OF ORIGIN: Puerto Rico

VARIETY: Premium white rum

ABV: 40.0%

WEBSITE: www3.bacardi.com

Bacardi doesn’t sit on its laurels, and over the years has launched different bottlings for different audiences. This Gran Reserva is a brave and confident take on super premium rum, and is an attempt to encourage rum to be sipped. Launched into travel retail, it has been well received. It is said to be inspired by a recipe passed down through generations of master blenders using a slow-filtering of the blended rum – aged up to three years – through a coconut shell charcoal, creating a smooth rum. The colour from this process has been stripped out, and presumably some of the flavour has, but this is still great: fruity, floral, and with vanilla notes and hints of walnut, oak and almond. Overall it is mellow, with slightly sweet notes.