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Opinion here splits hard, and it's less about the glass than the price. Almost everyone agrees on the flavor: vanilla, dark chocolate, coffee, dried fruit and honey, with soft wood behind it — smooth and easy at 47%. Where people part ways is the sweetness. Fans call it the best Diplomático; skeptics find it colored, sugared and "quite good but for that money" they'd look elsewhere.
The community says- Very smooth
- Chocolate & vanilla
- Keep in mind: High sugar content
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Auction results: 145–231 € (62 sales in 24 months, incl. buyer's premium, latest 09/2026). How the range is built ›
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How does Diplomático Ambassador Selection taste?
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Smooth, sweet chocolate-vanilla Diplomático flagship Most find it genuinely tasty — chocolate, vanilla, dried fruit, very smooth — but many feel the sweetness is manufactured and the value poor. Loved by some, dismissed by purists.
Aroma profileFans of sweet, smooth, dessert-leaning sipping rum
Purists who dislike added sugar or want dry, natural rum
Style & occasion: Sweet & dessertSipping neat
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Is it right for you?
Yes, if you're after characterful, sweet, dessert-like rums for sipping neat.
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What does the community say?
153 community reviews
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Review by Stefan Persson
Most helpful positive review
This is the best Diplomatico there is out there. The Single Vintages is also OK but can’t really compete, but I don’t think it’s really living up to the high price, but still a must have at my Spanish shelf. Picture: My Diplomatico shelf by moment.
Review by Aussierumfan
Most helpful mixed review
A rum that has been made for the uninitiated premium market, and is packaged up to suit that market. Presented very well in a nice bottle a box with cork stopper and thick glass base. On the palate is it quite one dimensional with an over arching manufactured sweetness. Chocolate, caramel, vanilla, fruits and some wood maybe? Isn't overly bad but can't be compared to a tropically aged jamaican for example. I guess it has its place in the market.
Review by abaker-rum
A very good rum with a great nose of butterscotch, vanilla, maple, and dried dates. All of these notes appear in the taste with impact from the aging in wood. This rum does skew to the sweet side, but it is easily sipable. The finish is long with spice and dried fruit.
Review by Tim
Had hoped for more... Totally overpriced, but there are also positive aspects. The nose is too one-dimensional, but in the mouth you can taste delicious berry fruits (strawberry, raspberry, raisin, plum). There is also a clear barrel note and bitter chocolate. Nice to have tried it, but never buy it!
Review by Stefan L
I own this bottle and it is still really good but with its low ABV I unfortunately can’t give it more points. Again I would have loved been able to taste it before the watering down. - Couple of years since last tasting and unfortunately I have to lower this rum again from former highs. - A few more years and for some reason I like it better this time. - Long time no se, but nothing much has changed.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
08.12.2025 Retasting this one and I still find it pretty good, but I think the price tag is a bit high. I like that they upped the ABV a bit, but would have been even better with even more umph in it. ----------- Though this is a 94 proof it is really well balanced and you can hardly taste the alcohol. A better version of the Exclusiva with far more nuances and variety of spices.
Review by Steffmaus🇩🇰
One of the flagships from the company, although rather pricey. I found the rum very tasty, and the same did my sorrounding people, hence the empty bottle. I found heavy chocolate in the nose, but good notes of dark chocolate, dried fruits and vanilla
Review by heckto🥃
I was allowed to try it a few years ago and was a little disappointed. Now I'm changing my mind. Appealingly spicy/vanilla fragrance. Complex taste with caramel, honey and dark chocolate. A really good rum but unfortunately very expensive.
Review by Lukas Jäger
A bottling that wants to be premium for me, but is not. Colored to suggest age, sugared to suggest maturity. The nose very inviting, it promises an old Spaniard, which has got decent wood off, with decent spices. Here, however, also already a trace artificial, sweet (I would like to insinuate here expressly no artificial flavors, it seems, however, unrounded...). Too thin on the palate (why dilute something like this?) and again unharmonious. Individual flavors dominate, do not integrate well into the overall result. In addition, a nevertheless clear sweetness, which fights against neat wood and smooths its bitterness. For me, absolutely nothing I need to buy or even should buy. Taste not my thing and the price far from any reality....
Review by Émile Shevek
Interesting and complex, with sweet notes of morello cherry and an aromatic finish of fruit and dried fruit.
Review by Solidfunk
Young in my rum career, and this one is the most expensive I've had. I get cigar ash, oak. Apricot and sherry. A little polished leather. Golden amber pour. Initial bite smoothes over soon, makes this something as it breathes. More potpourri, orange peel.
Review by TheJackDrop
What a horror! Too much tannin, too much nut, a burnt smell, and surely barrels sulfurized to death, you only smell that. On the palate everything is crushed, saturated, smoky... remains a nice texture and a chocolate base. I DO NOT recommend this bottle at all.
Review by Tomdutchman
Very balanced. Maybe a bit too balanced. I like it, but I think with a bit more alcohol it would have had a more exciting aroma. As it is, it's somewhat one-dimensional at times and you might have to search more for the flavors. The finish is medium length.
Review by Malte
Nice complex rum that wants to be discovered and read. Definitely not a beginner rum, but definitely very good and worthy of a discovery journey.
Review by Claes Nilsson
Quite good but for that money I will look for others in the future
Review by Topher
Finishing the bottle and forgot to rate all these months. If you want to impress your friends with the heaviest cork man has ever made, buy this bottle. If someone breaks into your house, grab this cork and lights out. It’s an easy sipper and best of Diplomatico. The price point makes it difficult to keep restocked regularly. There are fantastic rums at a better price point. That’s said, I will buy again. Hints of tobacco, vanilla. It’s about as smooth of a rum as you can buy.
Review by Stefan Bogatzki
Absolutely Amazing!
Review by Mc Pirate
Very good rum but still made with glycerol, this roundness can't be natural... Still of great quality for non-purists
Review by Philip M. 🇧🇪
08/03/2026: Brussels Rhum Festival @ Tour & Taxis. A bottle of this stuff will cost you €250+!? I don't understand why people would ever buy this. I get there are people who like a sweeter style of rum (nothing wrong with that), but this is ridiculous.
Review by Michal S
Decent rum, probably the best I've had from Diplomático. The price is obviously a bit over the top, but I can imagine it working for the wider public. Pleasant vanilla-chocolate notes in taste and aroma, dried fruit, a bit of wood. Overall OK.
Review by Benny H.
I probably wouldn't spend 200 euros on a bottle; it's a bit too sharp alcohol-wise, but it's already very close to a perfectly rounded rum!
Review by Kieron Wood
Reserva eclusivia is better and has more flavour but this is still aged and amazong depth of flavour This gets marked down due to the extortionate price and would rather drink 4 bottles of reserva exclusive than it
Review by Alain DARNAN
Good but for the price doesn't come close to a 'real' rum and the packaging (the suit) doesn't make the rum (the monk)
Review by Tomáš Bourek
Not bad but not worth the price.
Review by Happy Oner
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Expert reviews
3 critics scored it, averaging 6.4/10. Reviews from RumX's blog partners, independent experts who have tasted, evaluated, and described this rum.
Expert review by RumRock
Read full review ›I mainly associate this rum with exceptional moments in my life. I have a glass especially during some special or celebratory occasion. It's not a rum for everyday sipping, but I can really recommend Ambassador to everyone.
Expert review by The Fat Rum Pirate
Read full review ›This is a very smooth and enjoyable drink. However, at £200 you could have yourself some cask strength Velier Demerara or any number of other rums. I'd be just as happy drinking DRE as I would this. You could buy just about the entire Foursquare range for the price of...
Expert review by The Dunder Hut
Clearly not made for me. This style just is not mine. Heavy sugar and heavy on still rough alcohol
Diplomático Ambassador Selection at live auctions
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320 bottles logged by 285 collectors.
Both drunk and collected.
23% opened, 19 emptied.
What does Diplomático Ambassador Selection cost?
Community paid 155–250 €.
Current best price: 216.14 € – within the typical community range.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 216 €. Price history with 62 auction results in RX+ ›
+10 additions in the last 3 months.
Additions per month over the last 12 months; dark bars: the last 3.
320 purchased · 165 tasted · 131 wishlist · as of
Details about Diplomático Ambassador Selection
A spirit drink on a rum base from Venezuela, distilled by Destilerías Unidas S. A., at 47%.
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