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Captain Morgan Private Stock Rum

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Information and statements about products are not intended to be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition. The Seagram company wouldn’t last, however — in the early 2000’s, the various divisions of the company were carved out and sold to larger beverage manufacturers. Tax incentives favouring Puerto Rico caused them to transfer manufacturing to a factory outside San Juan (close to where the Bacardi family was setting up a factory at the same time); in 2001 they sold the rights and brand to Diageo, a British concern which by 2010 was the largest spirits company in the world. In making common hooch to appeal to the widest possible audience and lowest common denominator (the US consumer), some of the quality is lost in the quest for sales. Right from the get go I must mention that I’ve given Captain Morgan a wide berth thus far, simply because it always had a reputation as a low- to mid-level mixer.

The only thing I’d say is that I’ve never felt the vanilla overwhelming when compared to the other flavors like cinnamon and caramel, more heavily complimentary. If you think you may have an alcohol problem please contact the SAMHSA national helpline to get assistance.This Captain Morgan is richer and fruitier than usual, and can be enjoyed neat, or with an ice cube and a simple twist of lime. I feel like this bottle is trying very hard to be almost the exact opposite of a traditional bottle of Captain Morgan, instead evoking an older and more storied history. I know this sounds crazy but mix this with black cherry cream soda, the black cherry and vanilla taste explode in your mouth, might be too sweet for some.

From our sortiment you can find over +5000 products from leading brands, distilleries and breweries around the globe. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Henry Morgan was born in Wales in 1635, which had been fully annexed into Great Britain less than 100 years earlier.

Having bored you to tears with all of this tedious history and trivia, the question remains, is it any good? But I can see how it would be overwhelming to someone who doesn’t favor a stronger vanilla flavor in their rums. The distilled spirit is placed into oak barrels for an undisclosed period of time (reportedly up to a year). Other brands, including Captain Morgan and Seagram’s 7 Crown, were sold to the British spirits firm Diageo in 2001. Morgan is best known because of a memoir published by former French shipmate Alexandre Exquemelin, which recounts Morgan’s exploits as a privateer.

Without trying to be insulting, the fact is that Puerto Rico, which enjoys a favourable import tax regime with the US, makes the Budweiser and Coors of rums, with all the negative connotations this implies. The downside of this is that beyond the candy of these spices, it takes a real expert to taste anything else: try as I might, I could not discern more than butterscotch, vanilla and caramel and some very faint traces of what may have been orange. Privateers at that time in history were essentially ‘legal pirates’ who were allowed to attack and loot enemies of the state reaping the rewards from their plunder in lieu of pay. It ranks right up there, though its lack of complexity and deeper rum notes render it unsuitable for more discerning (and choosier) palates. With the addition of a little ginger beer, all of those flavors start to come together really nicely for a delicious drink.In fact, it’s a really nice sipper for the newbie who wants to get away from mixers without losing the body and taste. In my very first tasting, I loved the flavours I encountered, Vanilla, baking spices (cinnamon, nutmeg and brown sugar), caramel, and even a little oak spice.

Rights: to access, rectify and eliminate data, as well as all the rights explained on additional info.In the mid-2010s the bottle label was changed to replace the Captain Morgan portrait (head only) with the full picture of “The Captain” standing with one leg resting a barrel. An award-winning tribute to the Welsh buccaneer himself, the base of this exclusive experience is Puerto Rican rum matured in oak barrels for two years. It smells like someone dumped a bottle of vanilla extract into a pound of brown sugar — almost reminiscent of cookie dough.

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