Ron Los Valientes Aged 10 Anos Rum

Product of: Mexico

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Named Los Valientes (the Valiant Ones) in honour of the brave fighters of the Mexican Revolution, this rum is made by the Villanueva family who, for three generations, have distilled spirits in the town of Cordoba, within Mexico's coastal province of Veracruz.

The Veracruz area has been famous for its sugar cane plantations, since the middle of the sixteenth century when the grass was first introduced to America by the Spanish Conquistadores.

Apparently, and rather unusually, Los Valientes is a blend of 70 per cent double pot-distilled rum made from sugar cane juice (i.e. rhum agricole) and 30 per cent column-distilled molasses rum. These rums are charcoal filtered before being aged in well-matured American white oak ex-whiskey barrels.

Review and Tasting

Sampled on 12/03/2012

Appearance:

Clear, dark copper amber.

Aroma:

Pungent, Madeira wine-like nose with eucalyptus, treacle/brown sugar, tangerine peel and cooked apples.

Taste:

Full-bodied palate with smoky wisps of damp cigar tobacco and hints of orange zest and cinnamon spice.

Aftertaste:

Dry, slightly smoky and grassy, tobacco, toffee apple, bitter chocolate and cinnamon spice finish.