Plantation Barbados Grande Reserve

The first rum i ever bought! It will always have a place in my heart.
Easy to drink and much rum for the buck!

Sweet taste, with nice shades of crack, vanilla and banana.

A decent rum that works 365 days a year, Im never overwhelmed but i always know what i get.

Amber-coloured, pineapple-scented. Very easy to drink but short on finish; flavour dissipates almost instantly, does not linger in the mouth once swallowed.

For $27CAD at the LCBO, it's stuck between El Dorado 3/5 and El Dorado 8. Works well when you want something easy-drinking on a hot summer's evening outside.

Originally rated as a 6 when tried during the cold Canadian spring season. Tried it at night at 20+C outside and wish I could upgrade it to a 6.5.

I'm not a rum expert but from tasting it as it is:
Certainly is a step above the cheaper rum.
It's sweet and quite a bit from the darkest spiced variants,
probably the best there is for my favourite mix: rum and coke.

The nose could be improved from my point of view, a hint of booze. Synthetic banana and dates, also vanilla. The synthetic impression can also be found in the body, somehow like (artificial) sweetener. Banana cake, some chocolate and cream. A hint of lemon. Reminds me of dish detergent, sounds crazy but it isn't too bad here. Further, a bunch of typical "Christmas" spices. Among these are cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, cacao powder, ginger and brown sugar. Really nice taste with something to discover!

Quiet decent rum with double aging, a bit too much of vanilla, good balanced, tropical fruits, strong bourbon influence, medium body.
Recommended as an ordinary rum, for sipping and mixing, very testy old fashion.

Not bad not great... ok to the Price.... fairly ok in coke

Kdyz jsem si tuto lahev koupil byl jsem zklaman. Lihovost a ostrost mne odrazovala. Nyni je lahev temer dopita a musel jsem zmenit nazor. Nyni je zacatek sladky pak jde do rozinek a lihovost je pryc trosku to konci whiskou. Vubec to neni na skodu.

Tasty but Not quite on par with the other plantations.