2015 Ultimate Spirits Challenge

Zaya Gran Reserva 12 Years Old Rum (Trinidad & Tobago), 40% abv, $34.99

93
Excellent,
Highly Recommended

Tasting Note:

Seriously attractive chestnut brown, bronze color. Aroma focuses tightly on the oak barrel element, which comes of raisiny sweet, leathery, and refined but with nuances of pipe tobacco, sweet oak, and marshmallow. Taste profile highlights the tobacco aspects as well as the raisiny woodiness that accelerates in the aftertaste. Sophisticated, luscious.

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Cocktail Recommendation:

Rum Sidecar: 4½ Stars, Drop Dead Delicious