Now, I did say this was a clear rum made up of 20 aged rums.
Other solid quality rums I enjoy are Barbancourt from Haiti, Clement from Martinique and Barrilito from Puerto Rico.
As frequent readers know, I am a big fan of high quality sipping rums and am constantly experimenting.
Last year I did a post on Hot Buttered Rums, which still stays my favorite cool weather drink.
See my past stories on Puerto Rican rum, 10 Great Rums, The Best Rum I Ever Tasted.
While I tend to appreciate more full-bodied rums that are still smooth, the Don Q is interesting because almost anyone will like it.
On August 16, 2011, I ran a list of 10 great high-end rums to drink in celebration of this industry created, shamelessly self-promotional holiday.
All of these rums are described in detail in a list I did of The Top 10 Rums to Try For National Rum Day.
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Released just last year, Denizen is a magical blend of rums from Trinidad and Jamaica that create a full flavored rum that yes tastes like rum.
Beisdes, most rums are made from molasses, a by-product of the sugar refining process, so it starts with a recycled product, and that is a good thing.
In fact, when I chose my top ten rums for National Rum Day earlier this year, there was not one from Puerto Rico on the list.
The rums are also aged in American Oak barrels which adds to the rich flavors aged in the warm days and cool nights of the islands.
But as a lover of fine rums, Puerto Rico has been off my radar, with most of the best coming from places like Panama, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Trinidad, Barbados, Martinique, and Brazil.
On a more positive note, citizens groups have held or are organizing more than 220 public fo-rums, nearly one for each of the 300 single-seat constituencies, where candidates are asked to explain their policy stances.
The rum is aged in a combination of new un-charred American oak and used American Whisky barrels, and then blended with older rums for consistency and carbon filtered to create a light and complex rum.
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It does contain rums up to 30 years old, blended during aging using the same traditional solera fractional aging system used on ports, sherries, and madeiras (new liquid added to old regularly to create a blend of ages in pipes or casks).
When I am home and not paying, my three favorite rums to date have been Oronoco, from Brazil and Ten Cane from Trinidad, both rarities among good rums in that they are closer to white than dark, along with Ron Zacapa from Guatemala.
This topic was front and center of a conversation I had recently with Tom Herbst, Director of Marketing, Rums, for Diageo, a consumer goods company with a portfolio of world-famous drink brands, including Captain Morgan and Captain Morgan Black, the darker, bolder spiced version in the line-up of Diageo rums.
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Denizen is a blend of 5 rums from Trinidad that are aged up to five years then blended with fifteen rums from Jamaica by blenders in Amsterdam, who have been blending rums since 1723 (Jamaican rums as a category tend to have more wight to them than their brothers and sisters of Puerto Rico and St Croix).
But then he does something unique in the world: While the rums start in the traditional fashion, produced in local distilleries and barrel-aged in the tropical sun, they are plucked from their country of origin at just the right moment and brought to the Ferrand estate in France, where they are refined for several more months in small French oak Ferrand cognac barrels.
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