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Abuelo XV Tawny
Port-wine lovers are the real audience here. This Panama column-still rum spent time in tawny port casks, and members taste it loud and clear: cherry, plum, dark chocolate, caramel and dried fruit over noticeable oak. Sweet but not cloying, soft and easy to drink. At 40% a couple of tasters wish it hit harder, and one called it "not well sweetened," but most find real depth for a Panama sipper.
The community says- Rich port character
- Easy to sip
- But: Sweet
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How does Abuelo XV Tawny taste?
Aggregated from 118 community reviews.
Soft, sweet, port-cask Panama sipper Widely liked for its heavy port-cask character — cherry, plum, chocolate and caramel over soft oak. Sweet and very drinkable, though a few say 40% leaves it a touch thin.
People who love port-cask sweetness and dried-fruit sippers
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RumX’s 0–10 scale is strict: 7.9 sits in the “Good” band. 81% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 1% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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What does the community say?
52% rate it between 6 and 8. 20 selected write-ups from 118 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Johannes
Most helpful positive review
Wow, amazingly complex! Beautiful depth, wood, bitterness, wine, sweetness, palatable.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Most helpful mixed review
This is one of the 3 releases of the XV and it's pretty good actually. The nose starts off with a lot of caramel, in a good way, then goes into candied fruits wit some oakiness to it. The palate continues with the fruits and some leather and spices. The Port cask is definitely there and I like it. The finish is medium to long, astringent with vanilla and sweetness to it. Price to quality is good.
Review by LukaŽiga
8:On the nose, aromas of vanilla, nuts (almond) and cherry are delicious. Classic caramel and tobacco are also present. 7,8:On the palate, the attack is soft but also intense and one might think that this rum is over 40°. Caramel, tobacco and nuts make up this gourmet profile. 8:The finish is long, with tobacco playing the leading role. Wood and almond try to take the spotlight, but are ultimately defeated..
Review by Roman Lelek
The color is really dark brown with red tones - mahagon maybe. The nose - a lot of fruits - cherry tones, wood and spices - like burnt sugar, barrel, vanilla The taste is sweet, but not bad cheap sweet, but more like caramel and dried fruits or honey, woody tones of oak, alcohol is integrated very well, but still present in background.. The aftertaste taste is medium or long - keeps me warm with taste of nuts, wood . Overall I like it, even if I am not into soleras. This one is by my opinion the most complex solera I have tasted.
Review by Timo Groeger
Oh wow, this rum impressed me. It has a lovely vanilla aroma on the nose, followed by spices. The palate also has a nice, slightly spicy vanilla flavor. Reasonable sweetness and well-integrated alcohol round off the good impression.
Review by MJ72
Barrel notes come through, port, some plum, very pleasant. Pleasantly soft in the mouth, port continues, dark caramel with light coffee notes. Pleasantly long finish.
Review by Benoit Mahe
Not a bad ron, even if it would surely get nauseating in the long run and I find it expensive for what it is.
Review by Motvind
Väldigt god och väldigt mycket smaker, utan att något tar över. Ek, vanilj, russin/körsbär, lite tobak och karamell.
Review by Oscar Fernandez
I came back with this beauty! Rich, full of flavors and scents, quite complex! I finished the bottle in the evening with a friend, very good!
Review by Jeremy Hayes
Excellent tawney cask rum
Review by Martin Švojgr
strasne sladke
Review by Toník
better than food
Review by Pavel Spacek
Not well sweetened and spiced rum, but drinkable
Review by Rado Vito
Mahogany - ruby colour. Sweet woody, port, liquorice smell. Soft taste till the end. Port cask is noticable, there are tones of chocolate, cherry, plum, barrel. Medium dry aftertaste. Attention! So easy to drink it, that you may end under the table. Best from the series.
Review by ElReyTristan
A lovely nose for cherry lovers. The port cask has imparted lovely sweet notes to this rum. A hint of grenadine syrup is tempting. On the palate, a big disappointment in my opinion: at 40%, it's too reduced and there's not much left but a little syrup...
Review by M@xiM
Aroma: sweet, honey candied dried fruits, dense wine aroma, a lot of wood and as burnt as in the two oaks version. Taste: apricots, very sweet dense with a long berry-dried fruit flavor, with transitions to a peach history, but there is still a lot of wood and you can feel the aging. Very cute, dense and with a wonderful sweet fragrant fruity aftertaste. Аромат: сладкий, медовые засахареные сухофрукты, плотный винный аромат, много дерева и такого обожённого, как в версии two oaks. Вкус: абрикосы, очень сладкий плотный с долгим ягодно-сухофруктовым вкусом, с переходами в персиковую историю, но ещё много дерева и чувствуется выдержка. Очень мило, плотно и с чудесным сладким ароматным фруктовым послевкусием.
Review by Cino
Smooth, sweet rum that manages to find its own balance. Notes of caramel, chocolate, fruit, wood and leather. Very pleasant on the palate.
Review by derschwarm63@gmail.com
Very strict at first. You have to give the rum some time. More complex than the 12 year old
Review by Daniel
Wesentlich runder als der 7jährige
Review by JonasTh
Fruitig. Best lekker
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Details about Abuelo XV Tawny
A Column Still Rum from Panama, distilled by Varela Hermanos, at 40%.
Community purchases
183 bottles logged by 178 collectors.
A drinker's rum.
35% opened, 20 emptied and repurchased.
What does Abuelo XV Tawny cost?
Community paid 43–85 €.
Current best price: 57.90 € – within the typical community range.
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About the Varela Hermanos distillery
The Varela Hermanos distillery is located in Panama. Rums from Varela Hermanos have been reviewed 1,392 times with an average of 7.5/10.
To Varela Hermanos →Read on in the RumX Guide
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