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Dictador Best of 1978
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How does Dictador Best of 1978 taste?
Aggregated from 11 community reviews.
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How is Dictador Best of 1978 rated?
RumX’s 0–10 scale is strict: 7.3 sits in the “Good” band. 90% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 0% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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What does the community say?
91% rate it between 6 and 8. 1 selected write-ups from 11 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Pavel Spacek
Bottle in CZ community advent calendar 2025. Smell like Skeldon 78 without alcohol. Taste like Skeldon 78 on first taste - molases and then..then nothing. Just molases integrated with rounded distilate of unkniwn profile.
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Avg. community purchase price 250 €
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Details about Dictador Best of 1978
A rum from Colombia, distilled by Destilería Colombiana, at 44%.
Community purchases
2 bottles logged by the RumX community.
A collector's bottle.
0% opened, 0 emptied and repurchased.
2 purchased · 11 tasted · as of
About the Destilería Colombiana distillery
The Destilería Colombiana distillery is located in Colombia. Rums from Destilería Colombiana have been reviewed 1,919 times with an average of 7.5/10.
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