A snazzy looking rum all the way from Venezuela, Diplomático Reserva Exclusiva is a molasses based rum that is distilled in copper pot stills and matured in whiskey barrels. Top stuff for sipping neat or over ice, but also a very good bottle to have on hand when rum cocktails are on the menu. If you're feeling particularly experimental, try using Diplomático Reserva Exclusiva in place of a whiskey in a Manhattan. It works excellently. This fab rum was awarded a Gold Medal at the International Sugar Cane Spirits Tasting Competition in Ybor City.
Aromatic with hints of sultanas, chocolate, Christmas cake and gingerbread. Offers up bananas and custard with time in the glass.
Cocoa and vanilla, huge notes of oaky spice, brandy, plums and pepper.
Sweet coffee, Demerara sugar and oak.
One should judge it for what it is, not on philosophical beliefs on how rums should be made. This is a very nice sipping rum, which I enjoy at times after dinner. Yes it sweet, as a lot of sugar added, but sometimes that is what I have a taste for. At other times I prefer a drier rum. Frankly I don't see the problem with adding sugar to fermented sugar, and I am glad we have such a wide variety of different types of rums available. It is a very tasty. Yes they add quite a bit of sugar
Love this rum just by itself, smooth and sweet
To put it straight - it's good. So good, that after few glasses I needed to open a bottle of my old favorite, Pusser's Nelson Blood, just to compare....and that night the winner was Diplomatico. Just maybe my mouth had adjusted to sweetness and Pusser's, being also sweet, was just a tad less sweety.
Would be zero stars if I could do it. NOT a rum - so much added sugar in this that it's a joke. Avoid this fake rubbish. OOOH, it's so smooth though... ANYTHING would be this smooth if producers added a tonne of sugar to the mix. Should be illegal to be perfectly honest because this is a scam.
You drink it straight, float it, split it etc. Phenomenal rum for whatever you choose to do with it. Very impressed with this Venezuelan rum.
