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El Dorado
2012 High Ester Blend LBI/DHE Demerara Rum

Category: Rum (Aged more than 3 Years)

Date Tasted: 3/21/2024

Country: Guyana

Alcohol: 57%

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96 Points

Platinum Medal

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$132

El Dorado
2012 High Ester Blend LBI/DHE Demerara Rum

Category: Rum (Aged more than 3 Years)

Date Tasted: 3/21/2024

Country: Guyana

Alcohol: 57%

Dark amber color. Aromas and flavors of bananas foster, grilled pineapple dipped in chocolate sauce, baked cherries, and pecan pie with cinnamon with a round, lively, dry medium-to-full body and a warming, gigantic, long finish revealing nuances of chocolate creme brulee, ripe banana and pineapple drenched in caramel sauce and lit on fire, cinnamon and nutmeg with clove and ginger accents, and kola nut. First and foremost, delicious; also estery funk with tons of complexity, and then navy strength on top of that making this Rum an absolute winner.

Tasting Info

	Style:	Spicy & Complex
	Aroma:	bananas foster, grilled pineapple dipped in chocolate sauce, baked cherries, and pecan pie with cinnamon
	Flavor:	Same as aromas with nuances of chocolate creme brulee, ripe banana and pineapple drenched in caramel sauce and lit on fire, cinnamon and nutmeg with clove and ginger accents, and kola nut
	Smoothness:	Warming
	Enjoy:	in cocktails, neat, on the rocks, with cigars and with drops of water
	Cocktails:	Cuba Libre, Daiquiri Natural, Dark & Stormy
	Bottom Line:	First and foremost, delicious; also estery funk with tons of complexity, and then navy strength on top of that making this Rum an absolute winner.

The Producer or Importer

Demerara Distillers Limited

499 NW 70th Avenue

Suite 120

Plantation, FL 33317

USA

1 786-275-0253

www.theeldoradorum.com

Their Portfolio

92 •	Diamond Reserve 151 Demerara Rum 75.5% (Guyana) $28.00.
94 •	El Dorado 8 Year Old Cask-Aged Demerara Rum 40% (Guyana) $27.00.
95 •	El Dorado 12 Year Old Demerara Rum 40% (Guyana) $34.00.
94 •	El Dorado 15 Year Old Special Reserve Demerara Rum 40% (Guyana) $49.00.
93 •	El Dorado 21 Year Old Special Reserve Demerara Rum 40% (Guyana) $124.00.
96 •	El Dorado 2012 High Ester Blend LBI/DHE Demerara Rum 57% (Guyana) $132.00.

Rum Aged more than 3 Years

Serve in a Copita

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Rum (Aged more than 3 Years)

Añejo and Age-Dated Rums are aged Rums from different vintages or batches that are mixed together to insure a continuity of flavor in brands of Rum from year to year. Some aged Rums will give age statements stating the youngest Rum in the blend (e.g., 10-year-old Rum contains a blend of Rums that are at least 10 years old). A small number of French island Rums are Vintage Dated.