Journey Orozco
3.3
It's been a while since I had this bottle. I don't drink rum often, but I wanted to try it again for comparison. Rum, like cachaça and tequila, has a very distinct taste. You get too much of what it's made from. Although this bottle claims to blend rums aged from 6 to 24 years, the flavor is heavily concentrated in molasses. The nose has some bourbon hints, maybe pine tree, and also grass. A very strong smell of sugarcane and molasses with vanilla. The palate also focuses on molasses, honey, and sugarcane with hints of wood chips and pine, likely from the Bourbon cask aging. It mentions a lot of sherry aging too, but I didn't detect much nuttiness or fruitiness that would come from it. Molasses and caramel are a bit overpowering.
