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Country: Bermuda
Aged: Minimum 10 years
Alcohol: 40% (80 proof)
Availability: Extremely Limited
Price: $65-$90 (750 mL)
Rating:
The Review:
Gosling's Family Reserve Old Rum is a legend among rums.
Classic, rare, and perhaps even worth an expedition
to find.
For starters, it would be hard for the presentation to be any more
impressive. The rum comes in a champagne bottle made of dark green frosted glass,
individually hand numbered, with a simple label encircled with a
metal band, cork-topped and dipped in thick black wax - the black
seal itself.
Gosling's black seal is infinitely more attainable in both price and
availability, as well as a standard favorite of mine for
mixed drinks, but Family Reserve takes the same robust blend to
an entirely new level. Sturdy, leggy, and deep, dark brown -
few rums present with such immediate authority.
The bouqeut is
rich with semi-sweet caramel, vanilla, oak, and a soft hint of prunes and
dried stone fruits. The flavor has wide ranges and complex with
traits of caramel,
molasses, and smoke; followed interchangeably by baked apples,
roasted nuts, vanilla, tobacco, wood, cherries, spice.
It's a journey of forgotten craftsmanship in a glass.
A velvety yet deceiving smoothness
wraps around your tongue and still finds a way to softly kick on
its way down - as a proper rum should.
Mixing this rum with
anything whatsoever would be a crime. Even ice should be
avoided as enjoying it warm in a snifter is the only way to
appreciate this wonderfully nuanced experience. If you
ever get the chance to pick up a bottle of this rare treasure,
don't let it pass you by.
Gosling's black seal is infinitely more attainable in both price and
availability, as well as a standard favorite of mine for
mixed drinks, but Family Reserve takes the same robust blend to
an entirely new level. Sturdy, leggy, and deep, dark brown -
few rums present with such immediate authority.
The bouqeut is
rich with semi-sweet caramel, vanilla, oak, and a soft hint of prunes and
dried stone fruits. The flavor has wide ranges and complex with
traits of caramel,
molasses, and smoke; followed interchangeably by baked apples,
roasted nuts, vanilla, tobacco, wood, cherries, spice.
It's a journey of forgotten craftsmanship in a glass.
A velvety yet deceiving smoothness
wraps around your tongue and still finds a way to softly kick on
its way down - as a proper rum should.
Mixing this rum with
anything whatsoever would be a crime. Even ice should be
avoided as enjoying it warm in a snifter is the only way to
appreciate this wonderfully nuanced experience. If you
ever get the chance to pick up a bottle of this rare treasure,
don't let it pass you by.
A velvety yet deceiving smoothness
wraps around your tongue and still finds a way to softly kick on
its way down - as a proper rum should.
Mixing this rum with
anything whatsoever would be a crime. Even ice should be
avoided as enjoying it warm in a snifter is the only way to
appreciate this wonderfully nuanced experience. If you
ever get the chance to pick up a bottle of this rare treasure,
don't let it pass you by.
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