Largo Bay Gold Rum

This was purchased in a plastic bottle for a pool party mixer, so my expectations were low. It smells like grain alcohol with a faint hint of cane and a touch of citrus peel. The taste is more like a slightly sweetened harsh vodka than a rum, but rum flavors are present. While not terrible, it's as expected, just a mixer.

The smell is mostly rubbing alcohol, with subtle hints of spice and vanilla that require effort to detect. The flavors are a little better, offering some sweetness and sugarcane, and that vanilla reappears. However, it's all undercut by rubbing alcohol and intense heat, leaving an artificial, plastic aftertaste.

It presents as a pale golden color with vanilla on the nose. The flavor is quite subdued, mainly vanilla and green apple. There's a significant amount of fusel alcohol present.

Acceptable when mixed with tonic, ginger ale, coke, or other beverages.