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Diplomático Single Vintage 1997
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Auction results: 950–1,376 € (4 sales in 24 months, incl. buyer's premium, latest 06/2026). How the range is built ›
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How does Diplomático Single Vintage 1997 taste?
Aggregated from 9 community reviews.
Style & occasion: Sweet & dessertSipping neat
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9 community reviews
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Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Most helpful positive review
16.12.2025 Retasting this pretty expensive and now pretty rare rum. Still pretty good though a bit sweet. Balance is really good though. ------------ One if the best of all the single vintages from Diplomatico. As an investment this one has gone up in price 10fold since release.
Review by Pavel Spacek
Most helpful mixed review
Sweet aged diplo. Integrated alcohol, but common profile. Nothing more
Review by Filip Šikula
While all the single vintage bottles from 2001 onwards are very, very similar, the 1997 vintage is really very, very different. It's still a dense, oily piece with a sweet profile, but here I find a complexity I didn't expect. Really pleasant. Except for the price, of course.
Review by Rum Diversity
I remember a rum tasting with some rum friends, we tasted at least 3 bottles of Diplomático Vintage, starting with the 1997 vintage. For me it was honestly a disappointment, being such an acclaimed and sought after bottle, I imagined a very complex and exquisite rum, but it did not go beyond being a pleasant rum with a profile full of Pedro Ximénez wine. A very well known profile and not much to my liking.
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- 11 bottles on the shelf, owned by 9 members
- 9 tastings
- 24 wishlists
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11 of 11 bottles are still sealed.
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- 0 open
- 0 emptied
What did the community pay for Diplomático Single Vintage 1997?
975 € median purchase price
The middle 80% of purchase prices were between 100 and 1,851 €.
Price history with 4 auction results in RX+ ›Reported by RumX members from their collections · as of · How these numbers are made ›
Details about Diplomático Single Vintage 1997
A Pot Still Rum from Venezuela, distilled by Destilerías Unidas S. A., at 43%.
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