Let’s finish off this first month of the year with another Master Quill week. I like doing these weeks and the theme can be almost anything. This third week will be all about rum. Isn’t that a surprise, since I never reviewed rum on these pages before. So time to pull up the drawbridge, leave the moat alone and lock myself between the thick walls of Master Quill’s castle.
Diplomático is a Venezuelan rum. Just click on the link and you’ll see how many awards this baby got in its life. It should be pretty good then…
Color: Copper Gold
Nose: Half sweet and very aromatic rum. Vibrant and lively. Not thick nor cloying. Grassy with oranges, and raspberry syrup. There are some wood influences and do I detect the smallest hint of smoke? Also some pastry in it, dough, cake with raisins. Toast. Cocos and sappy oak again. Lots going on in here. The nose is lovely.
Taste: Sweet. Chewy toffee with quickly some wood. Very thin texture, nothing syrupy as you might have expected. Very much toffee, caramels and fudge. Actually pretty clean this one, but it has a bit of a disturbed balance by something sour that doesn’t fit this type of sweetness. I feel the sweetness and the acidity are in a constant fight with each other. Cold chocolate sauce on vanilla ice cream.
I poured this once over vanilla ice with warm chocolate sauce and it worked wonders. This rum is a dessert in its own right. It has a fabulous nose a somewhat less complex taste. I think there is a lot of potential to this, and I feel a well aged rum at a higher ABV with more wood ageing and less sweet and ’thin’, should be pretty spectacular.
From a single malt point of view, I wouldn’t recommend this, and that is pretty strange. Venezuela is a good market for single malt scotches, so one would expect… Well it has its uses, but I don’t feel it’s a sipping rum. For me this is more a rum you should ‘do’ something with. Mix it, Cocktail it, or put it on your dessert. It’s good never the less, the style is just not so much for me.
Points: 75
I’m sending my friend your way! He’s a huge rum fan.
ithinkaboutrum?
lol. Nope, just a rum loving friend.
Great, I’d love to hear his thoughts, Especially this Diplomático, which fetches a lot of accolades, but it seems to me, to be not the top stuff, I thought it would be…