alc./vol: 45%
Proof: 90°
Vintage: Non-vintage
Aged: No age statement
Product of:
Guatemala
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After distillation, the spirit (which comes off the still at 88% alc./vol.) is reduced to 60% before going into scraped and cleaned American oak ex-bourbon barrels for three years. After this first aging period the run is blended in a large vat where it is mixed with just over 10% of much older rum. It is then re-casked in recharged barrels and left for a further two years before again going into a blending vat where it is once again mixed with older rums. This process is repeated a third time but the rum is then placed in ex-sherry butts for another two years before again being blended with older rums. The rum then undergoes a fourth two year aging process in Pedro Ximénez seasoned sherry butts.
Up to this point the aging process is the same as Zacapa 23 but for Reserve Limitada the rum is transferred to heavily re-charred American oak casks for six to seven months before a further six to seven month final maturation period in Oloroso sherry seasoned casks. It is then filtered and bottled.
Like Zacapa 23, Reserva Limitada is presented in a bottle with a band of woven petate around its belly.
Review and Tasting
Sampled on 16/01/2014
Appearance:
Clear, deep bronze amber.
Aroma:
Salted caramel, toffee, raisons, clove, tobacco leaf and sandalwood with dried fruit, mocha coffee and roasted almond.
Taste:
Slight honey, dried fruit and vanilla sweetness is balanced by bitter chilli-chocolate, old leather, toast, tobacco, salted caramel and cracked black pepper and nutmeg spice.
Aftertaste:
Long finish, drier than the palate, with chilli spice, fudge, cracked black pepper, vanilla and caramel.
