Doorly's 12yo Barbados Rum, 70 cl

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The smell has woody oak notes with sweetish touch of fortified wine. Chocolate, banana, vanilla. And other similarly full notes develop in your mouth. Oak, sugar, fruits, a hint of spices, especially pepper. Further sips seem to temper the more bitter and woody notes. More fruitiness becomes apparent. Once the palate adjusts the rum has a much better balance than the initial sip might lead you to believe. The extra ABV means this is a rum worth sitting down and spending some time with. Doorly’s XO you can almost swig straight from the bottle – you don’t want to do that with this. Sit down with it and appreciate it in small sips.

Doorly’s 12 Year Old Barbados Rum – Review – The Lone Caner Doorly’s 12 Year Old Barbados Rum – Review – The Lone Caner

With so many recent releases comparisons will be sought. I find both this and Doorly’s 12 to be slightly more “wood driven” than some of the Exceptional Cask series. This is for example more woody than the very Fruity Premise of Zinfandel Cask rums. More oak and less vanilla and sweet fruit.The closing three paragraphs of the Rum 66 review, published almost exactly a year ago, are as applicable now as they were then.

Doorly’s Fine Old Barbados Rum Aged 14 Years - the fatrumpirate Doorly’s Fine Old Barbados Rum Aged 14 Years - the fatrumpirate

Doorly’s Fine Old Barbados Rum Aged 14 Years is as the name suggest a very fine rum. For most other producers this would be the jewel in the crown. There best efforts. for Foursquare it’s just another great rum. Doorly’s Fine Old Barbados Rum Aged 14 Years. Yet another release from the increasingly prolific Foursquare Rum Distillery, Barbados. This release, unlike the Exceptional Cask Series (Empery and 2007 to follow) and the Velier collaborations (Patrimonio will also follow soon here) will be available as a constant addition to the Foursquare portfolio.Your points are extremely valid, and I would agree with you 100%, except that I felt the same way about the XO way before I got into cask strength rums . That said, I also did try to make it clear to whom such a rum would appeal, as well as providing other writers’ opinions so that people would not be entirely swayed by mine.