Plantation 5 Year Old Barbados Rum (700ml)

"Fruit from start to finish: If you want the perfect rum for a pina colada, this is your guy. A huge bargain." - drinkhacker.com

Plantation Rum is actually part of the French company Cognac Ferrand, and it offers dozens of rums that are sourced from plantations all over the Caribbean and beyond. Their 5-year-old Barbados expression is one of the most popular rums on our shelves, partly because it delivers a quality product at a reasonable price. Using both pot and column distilled rums, the blend is aged for five years in x-Bourbon casks followed by a finishing period in Ferrand cognac barrels.

Other reviews... Scents include brown sugar, molasses, vanilla bean, ripe tropical fruit, marzipan, refined sugar and honey. Taste features intriguing, bittersweet tastes of black pepper, molasses, dark chocolate and palm oil. Finish is long, bittersweet and woody. 92 points - wineenthusiast.com

...Self-explanatory provenance here, in a rum that is light in color but long on character. A restrained nose offers hints of brown sugar, banana, and fresh apple, but keeps it in check. On the palate, huge coconut notes emerge, plus more banana and some pineapple notes. Fruit from start to finish: If you want the perfect rum for a pina colada, this is your guy. A huge bargain. - drinkhacker.com

4 Stars - Highest recommendation - Paul Pacult, www.spiritsjournal.com

...We've tried a 5 'Grande Réserve' that had been really too sweet, but that was ten years ago. Colour: light gold. Nose: a lot of burnt hay, or garden bonfire, that's not unpleasant at all. Whiffs of fresh-pressed cane juice too, even if this is not 'cane juice rum'. In short, a most pleasant caney nose, with notes of pistachio syrup in the background. Fine!  Mouth: things are getting tougher. Read 'sugary'. It may not be as offensive as it used to, but you still have the impression of having swallowed five sugar cubes at once or drunk a litre of Coca Zero/Light or equivalent. Finish: short and sugary. Sugarcane syrup and pineapple liqueur. Comments: do you think you could rather add stevia to your rums? What's good is that you could make a Ti punch or a Daiquiri without having to add any sugarcane syrup. This with hugs to all mixologists in the world. 65 points - whiskyfun.com