A very Highland malt like dry wood is the dominant note on the palate, with tobacco, dry fruit, and vanilla singing backup. Facundo then created two separate distillates that he could blend together, balancing a variety of flavors: Aguardiente (a robust, flavorful distillate) and Redestillado (a refined, delicate distillate).

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I had noticed that my score for this rum had dropped a few points from my original review published in 2010. Section 211 has been challenged unsuccessfully by the Cuban government and the European Union in US courts. It’s no secret that “serious” rum geeks have a tendency to look straight past the portfolio of Bacardi when it comes to seeking out new tasting experiences. It was decent when I mixed it but it wasnt really doing it for me I like rich and sweet flavors in my rum and I didnt get that outside of the smokey whisky touch and a little cherry. Created in 1862, Bacardi Ocho remained the family preserve for seven generations before making a debut as a collector’s limited edition to Aficionado magazine subscribers in 1995.

Thus, all of the work produced on this blog is protected by copyright, including all of the pictures and all of the articles. A premium rum created using a column still distillation and aged to perfection for eight years in hand-selected American white oak barrels. In February 2019, Bacardi's CEO, Mahesh Madhavan, stated that Bacardí's global headquarters would remain in Bermuda for the next "500 years" and that "Bermuda is our home now. Expansion began overseas, first to Mexico in 1931 where it had architects Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and Felix Candela design office buildings and a bottling plant in Mexico City during the 1950s. The Bacardi Gran Reserva 8 Años Rum is produced using column still distillation and oak barrel aging.

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In 1999, Otto Reich, a lobbyist in Washington on behalf of Bacardí, drafted section 211 of the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Appropriations Act, FY1999, a bill that became known as the Bacardi Act. To bring you our insightful drinks reviews, we use a combination of tasting sets, miniatures, full-sized bottles, plus visits and toursof distilleries, breweries and wine tastings, plus bars and pubs worldwide.

The oaky and smokey aftertaste is almost as if I’d been sipping a glass of smooth, triple distilled Irish whiskey, very impressive and remarkable…After warming up in the glass for a while it seems to me as if the smokey undertone gains strength, could you agree with this?

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So I have tasted about 10 different rhums over the last 2 years and Bacardi 8 is simply the best to me.After experimenting with several techniques for close to ten years, Facundo pioneered charcoal rum filtration, which removed impurities from his rum. The New Bacardi was every bit as nice as the others, in fact on my sheet it was the highest scoring of the flight. A. threw Hemingway a party when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature – soon after the publication of his novel The Old Man and the Sea (1952) – in which he honored the company by mentioning its Hatuey beer. Although it is classed as a light spirit at a 35% alcohol content, it holds its own, compared to its fully-fledged rum compatriots.