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Eminente Gran Reserva Edition No. 1 2013
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Cuban-rum drinkers who want a bit more punch than the usual soft island sipper will click with this one. Coffee, dry oak, honey and dried fruit sit on an aguardiente kick that prickles the tongue — several tasters call it their favorite with a cigar. Some love the wood and floral side; others find it a touch too sweet or a little thin.
The community says- Coffee and oak
- Peppery finish
- Keep in mind: Added sugar
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How does Eminente Gran Reserva Edition No. 1 2013 taste?
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Coffee, oak and honey Cuban sipper Well-liked as a rounded, coffee-and-oak Cuban sipper, more intense than the 7-year. A few find it too sweet, thin, or wood-heavy, and note the aguardiente character stays loud.
Aroma profileCuban-rum fans who like coffee, wood and a peppery kick, and cigar pairings
Anyone avoiding sugar or wanting a bone-dry, all-day light Cuban
Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neatCocktails & mixing
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85 community reviews
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Review by crazyforgoodbooze
Most helpful positive review
Elegant, full-bodied, and not uninteresting new Cuban. Overall, I personally think the 7-year-old is better in terms of value for money and mixability because this one has a bit too much wood, tobacco, and too much cognac influence dominating the flavour. The aguardiente portion is also interesting, as you can definitely smell and subtly taste it... But the value for money here is debatable. Thanks to Torben for the sample!
Review by Thunderbird
Most helpful mixed review
I find the nose very restrained, with delicate aromas of wood and honey. It is soft and light on the palate. The dilution is a little too strong for my taste. Notes of wood, coffee and spice dominate. It lacks complexity... I find it too one-dimensional.
Review by Schnapsschuesse
There’s clearly a lot more going on here than in the 7-year-old. More coffee, wood, vanilla, and roasting. At least the nose benefits a lot from the three years. The silkiness on the palate is missing here, but it’s much more engaging. A very pronounced wood note forms the base, with mocha and dry vanilla taking the lead. A nicely rounded thing, with just a slight drift into very dry wood in the finish.
Review by Jakob
Really tasty Cuban. Very round, nice sweetness, balanced profile with tobacco, oak, dried fruit, sweet coffee notes...a harmonious aroma spectrum without extremes makes for relaxed drinking at a great level. Great rum in a moderate price range.
Review by cigares
A fruity nose of yellow fruit, carambola and dried fruit, marked by wood but without excess, dried fruit with a herbaceous/floral edge. The palate is on cigar box (cedar), with dried fruit and yellow fruit in the background, but also wood and a very pleasant floral side. The finish is rather short, but cigar-box and floral aromas linger for quite a long time. A fine rum, pleasant to drink, and well above anything I've tasted before from Eminente. I particularly like its floral side.
Review by Joachim Guger
RumX Eminente Tasting 20.12.2023
Review by Oliver
Round, balanced and simply delicious. A real surprise that shows the strong potential of Cuban rums as complex sippers.
Review by RumTaTa
Tasted during the RumX Eminente tasting. Appealing good Cuban rum. Much more expressive compared to the few other Cubans I know.
Review by LukaŽiga
8,4:On the nose this rum is intense, elegant and complex and round - the initial aroma of freshly roasted coffee, red fruits, and flowers gives way to a touch of honey and vanilla with a nice almost minty freshness. 8:On the palate, it is well-balanced, unctuous and deep with a fruity profile, driven by dried apricot and orange blossom with notes of sandalwood, hazelnut, and allspice. 8:The finish is silky, persistent, and sweet with the spicy character of Sichuan pepper, caramel, pine sap and saffron. Highly recommend this wonderful stuff. So young, so smooth and so silky-shortly:A superb summery sipper..
Review by Agricoler
This is significantly better than its young jollege, the Reserva. Very smooth from nose to finish, lots of caramel and coffee but also slightly herbal notes. Overall, a very uncomplicated rum in which the 43.5% are quite well integrated.
Review by Timo Groeger
Pub LiQ Bar Düsseldorf March 2025. Next up, an Eminente. It's very woody on the nose, but coffee is also easy to recognize. On the palate, the coffee then predominates for me, and wood and honey are also recognizable.
Review by Vincent D
A little more robust than its little brother. The presence of aguardiente can be felt in greater quantities than in the other bottle in the range. Honeyed without excess. Frankly woody. Not bad at all.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#6692 24.04.2026 Online tasting with the gang. Sometimes it is just nice to sit and talk about things going on in your life while enjoying a few rums. A good rum with a very good price tag actually. Nice wood and coffee with some floral and nutts.
Review by MarcT
The third one of the Eminente Tasting. I am a bit disappointed, expecting more maturity from this compared to it's younger versions. The Aguardiente still comes strong, and I found it a bit domineering for a rum mainly supposed to be a sipper... The intensity of the Aguardiente mutes other notes, it still prickles on the tongue. Of course it gives the Cuban DNA more intensity, fruit and power, but that's maybe better for Cocktails than for a drink to be sipped in the evening - at least for me. Otherwise it is a good rum, definitely better than lots of readily available Spanish Rums in the "Premium" Segment.
Review by Leo Krüper
Very round and sweet. Balanced sipper.
Review by mto75
RX Eminente tasting on 20.12. The Ambar Claro pleases as an easy sipper, the 7-year-old Reserva scores with wood and spices, the Gran Reserva No.1 is even more intense and multi-faceted. It is also my favorite with the cigar...
Review by Eric Frechin
I'd found the 7-year-old version nice at a tasting, but it hadn't entered my purchasing priorities. In the end, I blind-bought the 10yo, hoping to find more complexity and depth (+ aguardiente + ageing + alcohol). It didn't disappoint and holds its place as the only ron in my bar. It can easily be served at the end of a meal.
Review by Steffmaus🇩🇰
Finally got around to try the Eminente taste set! The oldest of 3, and it has a fuller expression. Heavy on coffee, dark chocolate and wood in the nose, and I got taste-notes of dried fruits, chocolate, and hints of licorice
Review by Manuel
Thanks RumX for the great tasting with Eminente.
Review by Godspeed
I actually really prefer the 7 year over this one. I know there’s added sugar in both (about 35g/l for this expression and presumably about same for the 7) but somehow it’s just way more noticeable in this one. For that cuban image of sipping on a rum all day while smoking and playing dominoes this one is a tad too sweet to last the distance for that. That’s a shame because my rons need to be both light and dry for me to enjoy them because I actually do use them in that longevity way that their tradition intends.
Review by Markus Fjellstad Israelsen
Tasting 05.06.2026 Nose: woody, sugarcane, some orange peel, coffee beans and vanilla Palate: wood, tobacco, vegetal, still some sugarcane and honey Finish: nice tobacco finish, with wood and coffee being the other two main tastes. Great neat sipper, buy again!
Review by zabo
And thanks a third time RumTaTa. Of the three Eminente I have now tried, this one tastes best to me of all three. It has nice coffee notes in taste. Unfortunately again very short-lived. More in the direction of easy sipper. As a mixer, which I like to try again and again, it does a great job.
Review by Hans-Peter Jank
I am really surprised by the complexity of this excellent rum. Especially the peppery finish pleases me.
Review by primus
Consistent continuation of the Amber Claro, in which everything is a little more intense. The slightly higher 43.5% naturally helps the taste, and the cask leads to more intense dark and spicy aromas. I stick with the 7.6 rating for the second tasting as well.
Review by Jacek Czarnigowski
A great rum for sitting by the fireplace. Rich flavor and aroma of molasses, vanilla, dried fruit. Smooth, oily, warming. Long finish of nuts in chocolate with caramel. Also a little barrel-aged.
Review by Rare Akuma
80% aguardiente, French oak third maturation, and the slightly higher ABV (than the Reserva) really ups the game. Higher complexity and much better mouth feel. Unfortunately too aggressively priced.
Review by Jindrich Strobl
Very nice rum. Full body of a french oak with a hint of honey buy not too sweet. Long pleasant finishing
Review by HenryL
On the nose woody, a bit of clove, tobacco and roasted coffee. On the palate, wood and slightly sharp notes of pepper, roasted aromas and alcohol dominate. There is also a slight fruity note, like oranges studded with cloves.
Review by Alexandre Rolin
A nice long finish, but I was expecting more of a difference with the 7-year-old version. A good rum, but nothing incredible either. The packaging is magnificent, and I'm glad to have it in my cellar, but I probably expected a little more.
Review by PapaZulu
Pleasantly welcomes in the glass with the color of dark amber. On the nose, initial aromas of leather give way to a delicate scent of oak, coffee, and tobacco. Then honey, wet cardboard, vanilla, and dried apricots reveal themselves. Then milk chocolate, marzipan, and raisins appear. On first contact with the tongue, honeyed sweetness, vanilla, delicate spiciness, and milk chocolate are discovered. There is also coffee, dried fruit, and orange peel. Finish of medium length, sweet and vanilla, with a taste of dried fruit.
Review by Fassdaube
On the nose I find the rum really great, a wonderful symbiosis of wood and honey, to which short fruit brandy-like sparks join. Unfortunately, I am a bit disappointed in taste, apart from a rather flat wood note I don't taste much from the quite thin drop. It is pleasant to drink and doesn't taste bad, but in and below this price range there are clearly more complex rums where the highlight is not just the smell.
Review by Gregor
Nose: Sweet, caramel, a bit of plum Palate: again sweet, caramel, blackberry, strawberries, good but for me a bit too sweet
Review by Jo Hoo
2026 Lüneburg: Apparently the bottle had been open for too long and lost a lot of its aroma, so I rated it a bit lower. If the bottle is open... drink it quickly. 😊
Review by Rado Vito
Well, definitely step forward for Eminente, unfortunatelly also for price. Again, too high. I won’t buy this rum again, because for 80€ I can get much better rums.
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21% opened, 5 emptied.
What does Eminente Gran Reserva Edition No. 1 2013 cost?
Community paid 57–88 €.
Current best price: 62.33 € – within the typical community range.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 80 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ ›
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Details about Eminente Gran Reserva Edition No. 1 2013
A Column Still Rum from Cuba, distilled by Cuba Ron S.A., at 43,5%.
About the Cuba Ron S.A. distillery
The Cuba Ron S.A. distillery is located in Cuba. Rums from Cuba Ron S.A. have been reviewed 785 times with an average of 7.6/10.
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