Rum Tasting (May 8th, 2020)
This is a bad picture, taken at night. I’m hoping to retake it. It was our 1st rum tasting, and it shows based on my bottle selection. It is more of a test on aging, looking at the El Dorado line-up. It was an interesting test, 12 yr and 21 yr, almost got the same scores, 15 year seemed less popular, more muddled, IMHO. One of the selections was a flavoured rum, and shouldn’t have been included in hindsight, but it was a nice dark chocolate flavoured rum. The Plantation XO, 20th anniversary from Barbados is a very popular rum in the rum forums, but it didn’t win, nor even do that well. I put in the Rumchata for fun, and because 7 shots is a lot for anyone to drink. I believe creams are under rated, and get no respect, I’m trying to get the group to like creams, I might get there, you never know.
The bottles in question were;
| TT Label | Description | Country | Rating | Price (CAD$) |
| A | El Dorado 21 yr | Guyana | 6.9 | $107 * |
| B | Plantation XO, 20th Anniversary | Barbados | 5.3 | $72. |
| C | El Dorado 12 yr | Guyana | 6.9 | $39 * |
| D | Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva | Venezuela | 8.1 | $62 |
| E | El Dorado 15 yr | Guyana | 5.9 | $61 * |
| F | Companero, flavoured Dark Chocolate | Panama | 5.0 | $58 |
| G | RumChata | United States | 3.6 | $31 |
* In order to keep the price down, I bought a gift pack of El Dorado, 3 half bottles, of the different aging, for $115.
The Survey Results
We had 15 participants for this tasting
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | |
| Neil | 8 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 8 |
| Brad | 7 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| Chris T | 8 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 |
| Carla | 6 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 |
| Christine | 7 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
| Frank | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| Jenn | 6 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| Tara | 7 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 1 |
| Leslie | 6 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| Marcia | 8 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 8 |
| Maria | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 2 |
| Ro | 7 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| Roxanne | 6 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 4 |
| Stacie | 7 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| Tim | 6 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 8 |
| Total | 103 | 80 | 104 | 121 | 89 | 75 | 54 |
| Average | 6.8 | 5.3 | 6.9 | 8.1 | 5.9 | 5.0 | 3.6 |
This group really didn’t like creams, it’s sad, because Rumchata is pretty tasty.
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