BACARDÍ Reserva 8 Year Old, Premium Caribbean Rum, Barrel Aged 8 Years in Oak Casks Under the Caribbean Sun, 40% ABV, 70cl / 700ml

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Bacardi 8 Year Rum performs solidly both as a sipping rum served neat or over rocks, and as a mixing rum.

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Also sign me up for newsletters so I can get special offers, recommendations, and expert advice to my inbox! An excellent sipping rum with good (if not very strong) flavor, and lacking the heavy kick of many aged rums. A great companion for a nice cigar, it has opened my eyes to the possibilties of rum, and I will probably keep a bottle in my liquor cabinet for the forseeable future. Like the Anejo Cuatro, this is distilled and aged in Puerto Rico, and bottled at the minimum of 40% ABV (80 proof). He lived at Finca Vigía, in the small town of San Francisco de Paula, located very close to Bacardi's Modelo Brewery for Hatuey Beer in Cotorro, Havana.

Facundo Bacardí Massó, a Spanish wine merchant, was born in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain, on October 16, 1814, and immigrated to Santiago, Cuba, in 1830. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Made with aged and un-aged rums blended with a sneaky blend of warm vanilla, adding a pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon spices. This helped the company survive after the Cuban government confiscated all Bacardí assets in the country without any compensation.

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I think the packaging designers at Barcardi got the bottle design and presentation just right, it’s one of the best-looking bottles out there, IMHO. In 2007 Chad Oppenheim, the head of Oppenheim Architecture + Design, described the Bacardi buildings as "elegant, with a Modernist [look combined with] a local flavour". Interestingly enough though, when I was judging rums at an event a couple years ago, I was given grief by a couple of the judges over my scoring of this rum. So I have tasted about 10 different rhums over the last 2 years and Bacardi 8 is simply the best to me.Usually I never get to a lot of my samples and they ended up accumulating and was looking for disappointment as well. This cookie is set by Rubicon Project to control synchronization of user identification and exchange of user data between various ad services.

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There is a Bacardi rum for everyone, from cocktails for those hot sultry nights to tasty and aromatic sippers for the rum connoisseur. Aromas of tropical fruits and stewed fruits combined with soft brown sugar playfully lure your taste buds to experience the rich sensations. Flavour notes of apricot, nutmeg and vanilla, this rum will warm the heart and subtly envelope your taste buds. Bacardi rum is generally bottled at 40% ABV (80 proof), which is the minimum percentage to classify as rum. While not quite as good as the limited reserve, at a mere fraction of the cost, I would pick this one every day.I have had Ron Barcelo Imperial, Pampero Aniversario, Cruzan Single Barrel, and Ron Zacapa Centenario and I must say that Bacardi 8 is better than all but Ron Barcelo. The Bacardi family moved important trademarks out of Cuba, and using a Bacardi owned plant built in Puerto Rico, were able to continue to build their company. It seemed to lack the complexity of Bac 8 and had a mouthfeel more like thin syrup than a spirit with presence. In March 2022, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Bacardi announced that it would halt all exports to Russia and freeze investment and advertising programs.

BACARDÍ Reserva 8 Year Old, Premium Caribbean Rum, Barrel

Instead of keeping this promise, the company increased its exports to Russia and tripled its profits. Bacardi created the Real Havana Club rum based on the original recipe from the Arechabala family, manufactures it in Puerto Rico, and sells it in the United States. In February 2019, Bacardi's CEO, Mahesh Madhavan, stated that Bacardí's global headquarters would remain in Bermuda for the next "500 years" and that "Bermuda is our home now.I have modified the cocktail using sugar syrup instead of caster sugar, but otherwise the recipe is unchanged.