Aroma visualization from community tastings
Diplomático Ambassador Selection
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
- But: High sugar content
View price history
10 more payment methodsSecure payment Sold by delicando Returns & cancellation
- Secure payment. You pay via RumX with PayPal, Klarna or card. Your payment data is encrypted and we never store your full card details.
- Clear seller. Sold and shipped directly by the partner shop. And you're never on your own: RumX handles support and communication with the shop, so you always get excellent service, whichever shop you order from.
- Honest shop ratings. The stars show your service experience with the shop, not the rum score. They come from RumX users, and critical ones stay visible.
- Returns & cancellation. Your purchase contract is with the shop, so returns and cancellations run through them under their own policy and your statutory rights. If anything goes wrong, RumX helps you sort it out.
Buy Diplomático Ambassador Selection:
Compare all 8 shop offers
Prices & availability last updated on
The look inside the bottle
How does Diplomático Ambassador Selection taste?
Aggregated from 153 community reviews.
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.
Fans of sweet, smooth, dessert-leaning sipping rum
Purists who dislike added sugar or want dry, natural rum
How the community classifies this rum. Each category takes you to similar rums.
Which glass for which rum? The community guide →
36 of 153 left detailed tasting impressions · Click an aroma to explore similar rums
Recommendation
Your next rum
One difference each to this rum.
How is Diplomático Ambassador Selection rated?
RumX’s 0–10 scale is strict: 8.0 sits in the “Very good” band. 88% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 2% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
Community voices
What does the community say?
69% rate it 8 or higher. 17 selected write-ups from 153 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
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 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 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 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 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 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
Interessante e complesso, con punte dolci di amarena e un finale aromatico di frutta e frutta secca
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
Quelle horreur ! Trop de tannins, trop de noix, une odeur de brulé, et surement des fûts soufrés à mort, on ne sent que ça. En bouche tout est écrasé, saturé, fumé.. reste une belle texture et un fond de chocolat. Je ne recommande pas DU TOUT cette bouteille.
Review by Malte
Schön komplexer Rum der entdeckt und gelesen werden will. Definitiv kein Anfänger-Rum, aber auf jeden Fall sehr gut und einer Entdeckungsreise würdig.
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 Claes Nilsson
Quite good but for that money I will look for others in the future
Review by Mc Pirate
Très bon rhum mais reste fabriqué avec du glycérol, cette rondeur ne peut pas être naturelle… Cela reste de grande qualité pour les non puristes
No reviews match this filter.
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 →
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
Live auctions
Current bids for this rum at Europe's leading auction houses.
Market value
What this bottle last achieved at auction. A research indicator, not a forecast.
Auction results 140 € – 231 €
from 6 sales, latest 06/2026
Prices incl. buyer's premium — what a buyer pays, not what a sale nets you.
Avg. community purchase price 216 €
What members paid for this bottle, self-reported. Not a market value — the purchases are over three years old at the median and unverified.
Details about Diplomático Ambassador Selection
A spirit drink on a rum base from Venezuela, distilled by Destilerías Unidas S. A., at 47%.
Diplomático Deconstructed
What’s behind the most popular rum on RumX? Data from 1,400+ reviews, three distillation methods, and community voices.
Read more →
Old Fashioned with Rum
Recipe, history, and four builds from a bar professional: why the ur-cocktail gets bigger with rum, with a video to mix along.
Read more →Community purchases
317 bottles logged by 282 collectors.
A drinker & collector.
23% opened, 19 emptied and repurchased.
What does Diplomático Ambassador Selection cost?
Community paid 157–250 €.
Current best price: 216.14 € – 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+ →
+9 purchases in the last 3 months.
Added to collections, last 12 months — dark bars are the last 3.
317 purchased · 162 tasted · 131 wishlist · as of
Read on in the RumX Guide
The Gold Standard of Modern Rum.
Winner of the 2025 RumX Community Award. Explore the heritage, the craftsmanship, and the soul of this beloved rum from Venezuela.
Explore Diplomático →You may also enjoy
Rum enthusiasts who like this rum have also given the following rums high ratings:
Diplomático Single Vintage 2004
Diplomático Single Vintage 2004Spiced, sherry-finished Venezuelan sipper
Diplomático Single Vintage 2002
Diplomático Single Vintage 2002Sweet, roasty caramel-and-oak easy sipper
Ron Zacapa Centenario XO Solera (3. Edition)
Ron Zacapa Centenario XO Solera (3. Edition)Soft, sweet dessert sipper for slow evenings
Centenario Fundación 30 Años Edicion Limitada
Centenario Fundación 30 Años Edicion LimitadaVery sweet, creamy dessert-style solera
Diplomático Single Vintage 2005
Diplomático Single Vintage 2005Sherry-driven, fruity Venezuelan sipper
Diplomático Single Vintage 2007
Diplomático Single Vintage 2007Sweet, sherried dessert sipper with chocolate
Never miss a price drop.
Set a target price in the app, and we'll let you know as soon as the rum becomes available at that price from one of our partner stores. This works for any rum on your wish list.
Oliver · FounderBy rum lovers, for rum lovers
I'm Oliver, and RumX began in 2018 as a small passion project in Stuttgart, back then under the name Rum Tasting Notes.
What began as my digital tasting diary is now the world's most comprehensive platform for rum fans, today carried by a small team with Jakob, Lukas and Katharina, with Robert supporting us as a freelancer. We combine the collective intelligence of our community with an integrated marketplace, so you can choose with confidence, without paperwork, detours, or expert jargon.
Oliver, Stuttgart
About RumX →YouTube channel (in German)
