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Arehucas Añejo Reserva Especial
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Twelve years in cask, yet this Canary Islands rum stays light and a touch thin. Expect caramel, honey and vanilla up front, with baking spice, oak and a bit of tobacco underneath. Several tasters call it pleasant but unexciting, and a few find it sweet with a rough, spirity edge. Comparisons to Madeira-style rum come up more than once.
The community says- Caramel and vanilla
- But: Thin body
- But: Spirity edge
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How does Arehucas Añejo Reserva Especial taste?
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Light, sweet caramel sipper, a bit thin Middling verdict: a pleasant, sweetish caramel-and-vanilla sipper that many find thin and a little spirity. Fine value, but the older Arehucas 18 wins on depth.
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63 community reviews
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Positive from 8.0 · Mixed 6.0–7.9 · Critical below 6.0
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
A very nice Spanish rum from a destillery making rum since 1884 and has been delivering to the Spanish Royal family since 1892. A ver refined rum with a nicely rounded palate. Clear taste of molasses, spices and tobacco. Very good at the price tag.
Review by Pavel Spacek
Tasting similar to Madeira rums
Review by LukaŽiga
7:On the nose, we get oak spice and vanilla with lightly pungent baking spice (allspice, nutmeg and hints of cinnamon) and leather. Caramel and marzipan climb into the breezes and well as notes of banana and bits of bittersweet chocolate. 7,2:On the palate, this rum is lightly sweet with light caramel and chocolate flavours combined with leathery oak and vanilla. Baking spice (cinnamon and hints of clove) and dry fruit (raisin) add some complexity as does a taste of nougat and pungent tobacco. It is pleasant to sip with some higher citrus notes brightening the palate. 6,8:The finish is short, but it is smooth with ebbing flavours of chocolate caramel and fine oak spice..
Review by Tim
On the nose, fruity nutty sherry notes, but also brown sugar, roasted caramel and vanilla. Sweet in the mouth, a bit smoky, with a spicy honey and sweet orange finish. This rum is not as good as its 18-year-old brother from Arehucas. Younger, rougher, thinner and less flavorful. The extra cost for the 18y is definitely worth it.
Review by Keujkes
Good rum for the price
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
Well... way too sweet and alcoholically unclean🙈
Review by High Ester Maitai
From start sweet with maggi notes. Aroma and taste. In taste sweetness is sugary with notes of caramelised honey and vanilla. Pleasant, not overwhelming. Sweetness is on first plan, on second is oak with not so pleasant maggie, and maybe spice? It has buttery taste/felling Finish is medium. Sugar stay and oak change to tannins, not bad. Overall it is not bad rum. Pleasent, but nothing exciting
Review by Tom Buteneers
Pleasant mouthfeel, sweet/woody with a mild bitterness on the finish. Price/performance okay.
Review by Dirk E.
Nice rum but a bit thin in taste.
Review by Heffernan
Drunk neat, I unfortunately have to say that Arehucas is the worst rum I've tried so far. It is carried by a very strong alcohol taste, so it comes across very sharp/spritzy. Facets/nuances = none. I have now diluted it with cola, so it is somewhat drinkable. It definitely didn't suit my taste, so I can't recommend buying it.
Review by Malte
I've had better in the cabinet, but so far this rum is okay and drinkable.
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83 bottles logged by 77 collectors.
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42% opened, 17 emptied.
What does Arehucas Añejo Reserva Especial cost?
Community paid 20–47 €.
Current best price: 37.50 € – within the typical community range.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 24 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ ›
83 purchased · 68 tasted · 20 wishlist · as of
Details about Arehucas Añejo Reserva Especial
A Column Still Rum from Gran Canaria, distilled by Arehucas, at 40%.
About the Arehucas distillery
The Arehucas distillery is located in Gran Canaria. Rums from Arehucas have been reviewed 303 times with an average of 7.0/10.
To Arehucas ›Read on in the RumX Guide
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