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24560DF8-52D0-4571-AF71-05B5AD562BBAGuatemala Bodegas de America S.A
Malteco Reserva Maya 70cl bottle
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Aged rum · 15 years · 41,5%

Malteco Reserva Maya

RumX members highlight its inviting vanilla and caramel nose with marzipan and dried fruit. The palate is mild and sweet with caramel and toffee, hinting at brandy. Some find it quite sweet, so it shines mixed with cola. With around 20 community reviews and buyer confidence building, this 15-year Guatemalan rum suits fans of soft, dessert-leaning styles.

The community says
  • Vanilla and caramel
  • But: On the sweet side
  • But: Syrupy feel
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How does Malteco Reserva Maya taste?

Summarized by AI from community reviews.

sweet vanilla-caramel, easy cola mixer Vanilla, caramel and marzipan on the nose lead to a mild, sweet palate of toffee with a brandy touch. Some find it quite sweet, so it shines mixed with cola.

Style & occasion: Sweet & dessert

Full aroma profile Aroma families · nose & palate · top aromas
Flavor profile
Sweet & dessert
Spice
Wood
Dried fruit
Roasted & dark
Fruit
Funk & ester
Vegetal & floral

Relative to this rum's strongest aroma family

8 of 19 left detailed tasting impressions · Click an aroma to explore similar rums

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What does the community say?

6.8/10 Pleasant

19 community reviews
4 selected write-ups on this page, all of them in the RumX app

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Distribution of all 19 ratings
9–10 0%
8–9 11%
7–8 21%
6–7 37%
5–6 5%
4–5 11%
0–4 16%

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Review by Timo Groeger

Timo Groeger
Mar 20243,272 reviewsGermany
7.3/10

I find this rum quite okay too. Maybe tastes a touch too sweet. Definitely you can taste vanilla and caramel, but as I said, a bit too sweet. But mixed with cola, it surely tastes great.

Review by crazyforgoodbooze

crazyforgoodbooze
Jun 20212,642 reviewsGermany
5.7/10

Way too sweet and syrupy and somewhat fruity soapy...

Review by Blaidor

Blaidor
Blaidor
Aug 202276 reviews
6.5/10

Smell 7/10 Taste 7/10 Aftertaste 6/10 Image 6/10 (info about rum, bottle, carton-box, sugar free, marketing....) Total impression 6,5/10 ------------------ BTL...

Community shelf

49 bottles logged by 46 collectors.

A drinker's rum.

42% opened, 9 emptied.

28 sealed 12 open 9 emptied

What did the community pay for Malteco Reserva Maya?

Avg. community purchase price 28 €.

What members paid for this bottle, self-reported. Not a market value — the purchases are over three years old at the median and unverified.

49 purchased · 21 tasted · 3 wishlist · as of

Details about Malteco Reserva Maya

A Column Still Rum from Guatemala, distilled by Bodegas de America S.A, at 41,5%.

CountryGuatemala
CategoryColumn Still Rum
Raw materialMolasses
DistillationColumn Still
ABV41,5%
Age15 years
Volume70cl

About the Bodegas de America S.A distillery

The Bodegas de America S.A distillery is located in Panama. Rums from Bodegas de America S.A have been reviewed 1,058 times with an average of 7.3/10.

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Guatemala

Country

Guatemala 

Avg Rating 7.5/10 over 230 Rums

Guatemala makes soft, sweet, dessert-like rum, and it does it high in the volcanic highlands where the thin, cool air slows maturation. Its base is virgin sugar cane honey, a concentrated first-press cane syrup rather than molasses, and its calling card is the Sistema Solera. One name towers over the country: Ron Zacapa.

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Every score is the median of members’ ratings, from 0 to 10. A 7 is already a recommendation to buy.

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