We tasted six Plantation rums in an ambitious blind tasting at Smuggler’s Cove in San Francisco. As geeky as it is to stand at a bar and take tasting notes with a notebook, it’s… kinda fun. Mostly, I figure everyone’s too drunk to care what we’re doing anyway.
The notes and scores were taken independently in our separate notebooks before we compared and did the big reveal.
Like the Plantation Barbados, the Guatemalan expression is finished in Amburana, a South American wood. The dosage was also relatively light, at 8 g/L.
Tasting Notes
Nose: Very light nose. If you search, lemon sherbet, sorbet, clementine, oranges, lightly woody, butter, brown sugar. Palate: Bright vanilla and citrus. Violently grape, vanilla throat lozenges, pop of heat in the middle. Tokyo gas station style grape candy, banana chews, runts and coconut. Finish: Tingly, effervescent finish.
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