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3 badge mixology Kirk and Sweeney 23 Years
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Sipped neat or over ice, this Dominican column-still rum leans sweet and soft: vanilla, caramel, toffee and dried fruit, with a woody, spicy tail that a few tasters found puzzling. Several call it round and easy-drinking for its age, while others feel it's thin and a touch bitter for a 23-year-old. One member's wife even bakes it into pineapple cake.
The community says- Round and mild
- Caramel-vanilla-toffee
- But: Thin body
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How does 3 badge mixology Kirk and Sweeney 23 Years taste?
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Soft, sweet Dominican sipper with a spicy tail Most find it soft, sweet and caramel-forward with an odd spicy-oaky finish. Fans like it round and mild; skeptics call it thin and unremarkable for 23 years.
People who like sweet, soft, easy-sipping aged rum
Drinkers wanting a bold, dry, complex 23-year-old
Style & occasion: Sweet & dessertSipping neat
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69 community reviews
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Positive from 8.0 · Mixed 6.0–7.9 · Critical below 6.0
Review by Portman
Most helpful positive review
I like it much better than its 12- and 18-year-old siblings, despite its pre-mature sweetness. The longer maturation time brings more softness and at the same time more depth. As the 23-year-old has been discontinued in favor of the Gran Reyerva Superior, I will keep a full bottle in my collection. I like it very much.
Review by Andreas Cebin
Most helpful critical review
Well, for 23 years very unbalanced.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
A very sweet rum with fruits and some caramel /toffee notes. My wife uses it in her pineapple cake.
Review by BTHHo 🥃
The taste is pleasant and complex with notes of dried fruit, toast, toffee, almonds and vanilla.
Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
Today times exactly the other way around than a few weeks ago in the hotel, when I had a very good rum in an inappropriate glass 😉. Nah, this rum is so not mine. It seems biting and bitter to me. But is also too thin for me at the same time. At least it doesn't seem to have a single gram of sugar. But yes, I also taste something spicy and woody. Could I imagine well with a cigar. Thus determined relatively far ahead for a relaxed evening with friends to whom you want to bring honest rum closer.
Review by Business Liner Ralf
had expected something more, but very pleasing, round, not too much sweetness, Ultimately, price performance is right.
Review by Pavel Spacek
That spicy tail...does anyone know what is it?
Review by Akis Kanelo
A very nice rum little sweet with strange after taste, i think something like coffee Value for money
Review by Thorsten D.
Finde Ihn zu dünn und zu wenig komplex, nicht meins. Seht geöffnet im Barschrank und wird nicht wirklich weniger. Warum wohl. Gibt bessere, hier war due Flasche vor Jahren wohl der Grund für den Kauf. Heute bin ich schlauer. Der Alkohol ist nicht gut eingebunden.
Review by Madame 888
Woody, spicy, little complex, round, not very distinctive.
Review by Oldbaer Ger
A rum to enjoy now and then
Review by X-Savior
On The Rocks: On the nose moderate oak with brown sugar and mild alcohol and spices. Taste is smooth and sweet with a delayed strong spice and mild alcohol evolving into a moderate bitterness. The finish is long as it evolves again from a bitterness into a delayed marshmellow sweetness deep into the finish. This is demonstrating very complex and distinct flavour stages and is very enjoyable. This is a fanatic sipper on the rocks. Mixed Pepsi Zero: On the nose smells like Pepsi Zero. Taste is sweet but very shallow flavour profile with almost no finish. There is no point drinking this mixed.
Review by Michal Lutter
Sussi, end fine
Review by Ane Steph
I'm not really a fan of rons because I find them too sweet. This one has a nice toffee smell and taste though and finishes on an almost sour (and oaky) note. I might get a bottle for sipping because of that.
Review by Daniel
Lovely harmonious expressions of caramel, vanilla and roasted nuts as well as chocolate. Warm start continues the aromas of the nose. Also vanilla, caramel, additionally cinnamon. Finish: short and inconspicuous. Spicy and mild rum, whose age is noticeable in the harmony and good balance.
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151 bottles logged by 142 collectors.
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41% opened, 16 emptied.
What did the community pay for 3 badge mixology Kirk and Sweeney 23 Years?
Community paid 45–74 €.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 53 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ ›
151 purchased · 76 tasted · 50 wishlist · as of
Details about 3 badge mixology Kirk and Sweeney 23 Years
A Column Still Rum from Dominican Republic, bottled by 3 badge mixology, at 40%.
About the Bermudez distillery
The Bermudez distillery is located in Dominican Republic. Rums from Bermudez have been reviewed 441 times with an average of 7.1/10.
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