Appleton Estate Reserve 8-Year

This is a good standby rum.
It’s not spectacular but it is not dreck.
Jamaica knows how to make rum.
Available everywhere.
However, worth dropping the extra $ for the 12 year.

Island flavour! Drank a lot of this one in particular while visiting Jamaica !

Appletons have that strange distinctive odour. Hard to smell anything beside that. The taste is alcoholic fiery, dry but sweet anyhow. There is also afterburn, but decent one. For 8 yrs, it should be better rounded and mellowed, more refined. 8 years or not, this one has qualities to be rather mixer than sipper. Altrough I very liek 12yrs and V/X Appletons, this one is little bit of dissapoitment for sipping. So better mix it up or mellow it down with ice/water.

like in title....not bad...but definetly nothing special.

Just not quite good enough for sipping in my humble opinion.

Another good mixing rum but the 12 yo is a much better choice.

My first Jamaican rum and I guess hobo is not for me. Somehow this tastes dirty to me.

Nice Appleton signature taste, not too overwhelming. Smoother then the signature.

Each iteration of the Appleton blends really brings something nice to the table and improves on the last. You can almost always find it on sale somewhere, which doesn't hurt.

I have this bottle on my shelf because I wanted to try Appleton Estate, immediately I was smacked with a strong metallic taste to it. I confess this may be very subjective because others say they greatly enjoy this rum, but I am having a hard time getting past the metallic taste. If it didn't have that, I bet it would be delicious to my taste palette.