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Dictador 20 Years
Sipped neat it reads like sweetened black coffee: caramel, dark chocolate, toffee and a puff of tobacco smoke, going a bit bitter and walnutty at the end. Several tasters call it thin for 40% and clearly sweetened — closer to coffee liqueur than a 20-year sipper for some. Others happily drink it after dinner or splash it over ice.
The community says- Coffee-chocolate nose
- Easy to drink
- But: Contains added sugar
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How does Dictador 20 Years taste?
Aggregated from 341 community reviews.
Sweet coffee-and-chocolate sipper, thin body Divides people hard: fans love the coffee-chocolate warmth after a meal, while skeptics find it too sweet, thin, and doubt the age. Everyone agrees the coffee note is front and center.
People who like sweet, coffee-forward after-dinner rums
Anyone avoiding sugar or wanting a dry, full-bodied aged rum
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What does the community say?
61% rate it between 6 and 8. 16 selected write-ups from 341 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
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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 Christoph
Most helpful positive review
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 Oliver
Most helpful critical review
Tastes like coffee liqueur. Too sweet for my taste.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Had a very nice Dictador tasting this Sunday and this is the second one of the six. This is the second time I have this rum in a tasting and this time it got a few more points. This rum is made from sugarcane and honey molasses, which is pretty rare. In this rum you can really smell and taste the honey. This is a must try if you like Zacapa rum because they're pretty similar. Price to quality is very good. This rum won gold at the 2010 International Rum Expert Panel.
Review by Aussierumfan
Clearly a rum that has been artificially sweetened..... I'm not sure what the 20 means, pretty typical Latin American exaggeration with the age statements! There is vanilla, and a coffee note that I got, and lot of sweet caramel. Not much of a finish. It's not the worst rum however, and it does disappear very quickly - its easy to drink with no bite at all, almost a liquer.
Review by Bennet
Holziger Rum mit cremigee angenehmer Süße
Review by zabo
Found again at the very back when rearranging in the cupboard. It was one of my starter rums or for mixing for CubaLibre. With my current taste, I can no longer understand how I could have liked it. Well, many have probably gone through this hard school. Will now have to use it for sweetening espresso and baking. Adjusted downwards a little.
Review by LukaŽiga
7,8:Nose as usual with Dictador, opens with a good glassful of coffee. But to stop there would be to state the obvious: this coffee is flavored with vanilla and sweetened with a dollop of molasses. Black molasses has a distinct licorice aroma. The nose is quite dry, with walnuts, pecans and almonds. These nuts are caught in a hard caramel, and we can now easily visualize a slab of crunchy nougatine. Licorice continues to lead the way on aeration, bathed in tobacco and coffee smoke. Caramelized nuts like pecan are still present, forming a powder mixed with spices. In this definitely very dark register, bread and wood are toasted. 7,3:On the palate, a small, sweet bubble of yellow fruit bursts out and spills over first. This sweetness compensates for the darker side of the nose, which logically translates here into a peppery, even spicy harshness. This continues with salted brown caramel, lots of coffee and a spicy woodiness where coriander adds a little freshness and whimsy. Molasses and licorice complete the deep, dark picture. 7,2:The last lingering notes on the palate are dry walnuts, caramelized pecans and maple syrup. Well, shortly, coffeeeeee time 😄. Edit:10.4.26, used in Midnight vanilla espresso..
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 Martin Augustin
Karamell, Vanille, Kaffee und etwas rostiges sind zu erriechen. Geschmacklich ist er dann sehr süß mit Kaffee, Schokolade, Honig und sehr viel Walnuss. Der Abgang ist sehr kurz mit viel Schokolade. Für meinen Geschmack zu künstlich und viel zu süß.
Review by Rumpalumpa
Im Vergleich zu der 12 jährigen Abfüllung sind die Aromen hier viel sanfter und unspektakulärer. Die markanten Maggi, Honi, Malz Aromen sind viel schwächer, dafür holziger und röstiger und gehen mehr in Richtung Schokolade und Kaffee
Review by pavlix vipax
Vo vôni dosť liehove, v chuti aj mierna sladkosť ale dosť stipe, napriek tomu dospelackejsie pitie
Review by Galli33
A good oily rum! Very lovely smell and taste. I like it a lot
Review by Johannes
Quite thin, somewhat bitter, but still probably sweetened, coffee notes, some wood and tobacco. Short finish. Perhaps ok for beginners.
Review by Lucas Scrivener
Very rich, round rum of the darkest molasses. Fantastic end of night rum
Review by Tim
Dictador: a dishonest rum brand? An interview with Dictador's master blender (http://consulhonorariostuttgart.de/?q=de/destileria_colombiana) explains a lot. The fact is that Dictador has never used the solera system and buys in some of the light alcohols for its rums. The alcohol content may also not be correct, which conceals a small amount of added sugar. The brand's marketing is very good, even though I have never seen Dictador in a supermarket. Overall, not the best impression. This rum comes with a lot of roasted aromas of coffee and chocolate, with a perceptible alcohol note. The rum is good in principle, but lacks complexity. Does the price match the quality? Probably not.
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Expert review by Zucker und Zeste
Woody and spicy with coffee and chocolate notes. Quite dry with little fruit.
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Auction results 30 € – 54 €
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Details about Dictador 20 Years
A Pot & Column Still Rum from Colombia, distilled by Destilería Colombiana, at 40%.
Community purchases
553 bottles logged by 523 collectors.
A drinker's rum.
40% opened, 80 emptied and repurchased.
What does Dictador 20 Years cost?
Community paid 40–74 €.
Current best price: 47.20 € – within the typical community range.
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+8 purchases in the last 3 months.
Added to collections, last 12 months — dark bars are the last 3.
553 purchased · 375 tasted · 223 wishlist · as of
About the Destilería Colombiana distillery
The Destilería Colombiana distillery is located in Colombia. Rums from Destilería Colombiana have been reviewed 1,917 times with an average of 7.5/10.
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