![]() "A very smooth and mellow rum, well infused with the flavours of American oak. The finish is a little roasted and leaves a little blond tobacco smoke. 21 sales tax 700ml Facundo Eximo 10 Year Old 70 CL 40, BACARDI FACUNDO EXIMO, Porto Rico Check with the merchant for stock availability. This roundness inhibits the fuller aspects of the wood and spices, leaving only the sweetness of vanilla and coconut milk. Facundo Eximo 10 Anos, Las Bahamas Spain: Valencia Standard delivery 1-2 weeks More shipping info Go to shop 87.98 125.68 / 1000ml inc. The palate is as charming as the nose, with an extremely smooth and velvety entry. A little bit of marzipan completes the picture and fixes this greedy character, despite a little return of roasted coffee. ![]() The American oak unfolds all its greediness made of coconut, vanilla, tobacco and soft wood. With a little air, the rum takes on a fuller body and roundness. The toasted oak gives off some coconut scents that become increasingly roasted, until they touch on coffee. The nose is both light and caramelised, with familiar notes of vanilla, toasted wood and toasted spices. This perilous exercise requires the expertise of a great Maestro Ronero. Indeed, the rums of this cuvée have been blended before ageing. The name Eximo ("free") is linked to a particularity that makes it unique. It is a blend of rums aged for 10 years in oak barrels. As with NEO, Eximo helps solidify the emerging premium rum categories with an entry well worth every penny of its $60 price.Facundo Eximo is the first in a series of exceptional aged rums created in tribute to the founder of one of the greatest rum houses: Don Facundo Bacardi. Facundo Eximo Rum Caribbean Avg Price (ex-tax) 75 / 750ml Critic tasting note: A blend of rums aged 10 years, this dark-amber beauty delivers big, sweet. Eximo takes everything that Bacardi has accomplished with their 8 year rum and cranks it up to 11 (excuse the pun) in one of the most enchanting and alluring expressions of this style of rum we’ve had. The finish for the Facundo Eximo Rum is fantastic, slightly dry and incredibly long with bitter dark chocolate, vanilla, raisin, oak, and tobacco, flavors that continue to dance on the palate long after Eximo has come and gone. The midpalate is a sheer love letter to oak and presents a strong oak flavor in one of the most pleasant and satisfying ways we’ve seen. The midpalate of Eximo is all about oak, with the sweet vanilla and caramel notes from the entry combining with tobacco and slightly bitter dried raisin, interweaving with the oak notes with tight and impeccable integration. The journey isn’t nearly as dramatic with Eximo, but the shift is quite pleasant. As with NEO, Eximo goes on a journey from sweet and round towards dry. What’s interesting about Eximo is that it presents more oak than spice, with flavors that can be described more as deep oak, dry oak, or smokey oak than oak spice. Although the nose suggests bourbon, the entry proclaims RUM with vanilla, caramel, and toffee right there with the oak. The nose on Eximo also has a wonderful old bourbon-like quality to it, reminiscent of the character we’ve seen in 20 year old bourbons. The aromas in Eximo’s nose integrate amazingly with the sweeter notes layered in between varying levels of oak. The nose on Eximo is strong oak backed by vanilla, caramel, bananas foster, and bitter dark chocolate. In the mix are a few rums older than 10 years old (and were 1-2 years at the time of original blending), giving Eximo a total age range of 10 – 12 years. Eximo is a 10 year old rum which was blended before it was put into the barrel 10 years ago. It takes a tremendous amount of skill to do this blending BEFORE a rum is aged, and that’s what Bacardi has done with Eximo. That product must state the youngest rum in the mix, but often there are small amounts of older rums to help add dimensionality and depth. Blending after aging gives a blender a great amount of ability to balance and shape the character of a rum. Facundo Eximo Rum (40% ABV / 80 proof, $60) – a lot of aged rums are a result of blending a number of different rums together after aging into a single, unified product.
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