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Dictador 20 Years
Sipped neat after dinner, this drinks like sweetened coffee in a glass: roasted espresso, caramel, dark chocolate, a little tobacco and walnut. Most people find it smooth, sweet and easy, with a short finish. Several note it tastes thin for 40% and clearly sweetened — one tester called it "more or less a liqueur." Fine as a relaxed evening pour, less so for analysis.
- Strong coffee aroma
- Smooth and easy
- Chocolate and caramel
+10
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How does Dictador 20 Years taste?
Aggregated from 329 community reviews.
Sweet, coffee-heavy after-dinner sipper Coffee-and-caramel sweet sipper most find easy and pleasant, though many call it thin, one-dimensional and obviously dosed. Solera, not a true 20-year. Loved by some, dismissed by others.
Coffee and dessert-rum fans who like a sweet, smooth evening pour
Anyone avoiding added sugar or wanting a dry, complex rum
How is Dictador 20 Years rated?
RumX's 0–10 scale is strict , 7.5 lands squarely in the "Good" band. 65% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 5% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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Selected write-ups from 329 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Based on 329 ratings
Review by BTHHo 🥃
Intense, dark amber-golden color and bold, rich aroma of caramel, vanilla, honey, freshly roasted coffee and oak. Soft, round, strong and sweet on the tongue with the characteristics of the aroma.
Review by Bennet
Holziger Rum mit cremigee angenehmer Süße
Review by Oliver
Tastes like coffee liqueur. Too sweet for my taste.
Review by Christoph
Dunkle Schokolade, aber noch intensiver Kaffee in Nase und Mund. Im Abgang kommt etwas Orangenschale dazu. Der Alkohol ist trotz der 40% im Abgang noch etwas vorhanden.
Review by WiltChamberlain
News about Dictador: I still believe that the rums are sweetened and provided with additives, so I wrote to the German importer 'Kirsch Import' and drew attention to various articles on the net and now received an answer. You can find the answer as an attached picture.
Review by X-Savior
On The Rocks: On the nose we get hints of sweetness, bacon, mild fruit and spice. Taste reveals a little more sweet and spice with bacon and coffee undertones. Finish is medium and mildly sweet. Mixed Pepsi Zero: On the nose mild sweetness. Taste has mild sweetness that evolves into mild coffee and a slight bitterness. Finish is very short with a slight bitterness.
Review by Michael Schillheim
Lots of coffee, lots of chocolate. A little too much of everything. Not a highlight, but not undrinkable either. If you want to have a drink in the evening without constantly wanting/needing to analyze your rum, then the Dictador is justified. Not a must-have in my collection.
Review by pavlix vipax
Vo vôni dosť liehove, v chuti aj mierna sladkosť ale dosť stipe, napriek tomu dospelackejsie pitie
Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
Bäh! Sind in der Nase noch relativ angenehme süße Kaffee- und Schokoladennoten vorhanden, passiert am Gaumen so gut wie nichts. Wirkt wie gefärbtes und gesüßtes Wasser mit einem Schuss Supermarktrum aus dem untersten Regal. Ich hätte blind auf HC 3 años oder so getippt. Finger weg, wer sich nicht den Abend vermiesen will.
Review by Lucas Scrivener
Very rich, round rum of the darkest molasses. Fantastic end of night rum
Review by kudzey
At this level of watering down it lacks intensity. The overwhelming sweetness rises questions at every sip.
Review by JonasTh
Vanille. Lekkerder dan 12y
Review by Fuwi
Yuck! I got this from Zabo, must have been a cupboard find. Was just supposed to be a silly mixer on vacation at the beach - sun, limes, ice and a little rum. It has such a penetrating aroma of a well-known liquid condiment, it doesn't even work with the juice of a whole lime, let alone pure. I gave it to a Thai waiter as a gift.
Review by Juris Sumskis
Very pleasant smell of toffee, caramel. Easy to drink neat.
Review by ChristophFFM
Laut diversen Blogs wurden hier Zucker und künstliche Aromen hinzugefügt. Der Rum rieht wirklich zu gut um wahr zu sein. Geschmacklich auch sehr angenehm. Abgang kurz. Fake rum mit Zusätzen?
Review by Holger
Sweet and spicy at the same time. Chili and licorice at the same time, warming, slightly astringent and a very, very long finish. If you like this type of rum, you've come to the right place.
Review by Paweł My
Dominuje smak palonego cukru, ale nie jest słodki, można się doszukać aromatu taniej kawy. Dziwny rum, nie smakuje jak 20 year old, ale to solera, więc w sumie nie wiadomo ile lat był starzony. Nie wrócę do niego, w tej cenie jest mnóstwo lepszych rumów. To nie jest rum ani dla początkujących, ani dla zaawansowanych, produkt stworzony na zamówienie marketingu.
Review by Schnapsschuesse
Die Nase ist seltsam - einfach schon weil so unglaublich viel Kaffee. Zusammen mit den Berichten im Netz liest sich das alles etwas fishy... Im Mund ist das ganze dann unglaublich dünn für die Nase. Kaffeelikör trifft's ganz gut - enorm süß, enorm viel Kaffee. Rum? Nich so. Würde ich blind nicht als solchen identifizieren können - sondern maximal für ein Kaffeeprodukt auf Rumbasis halten. Autsch. Hier stimmt irgendwas gewaltig nicht...
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Details about Dictador 20 Years
A Pot & Column Still Rum from Colombia, distilled by Destilería Colombiana, at 40%.
Community purchases
544 bottles logged by 514 collectors.
A drinker's rum.
40% opened, 79 emptied and repurchased.
What does Dictador 20 Years cost?
Community paid €40–€75.
Current best price: €42.28 – within the typical community range.
What members actually paid for their bottles. A typical range, not the current shop price. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
+11 purchases in the last 3 months.
Added to collections, last 12 months.
544 purchased · 361 tasted · 213 wishlist · as of
About the Destilería Colombiana distillery
The Destilería Colombiana distillery is located in Colombia. Rums from Destilería Colombiana have been reviewed 1,849 times with an average of 7.5/10.
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