Aroma visualization from community tastings
Taste
Alcoholic, Fruit schnapps, Vanilla
Most mentioned across 11 tasting notes
- Perfect for
- People wanting a cheap mixing bottle for cola or long drinks
- Less suitable for
- Anyone wanting a real rum character to sip neat
- How to drink
- Mostly in cocktails
Mr. Finton's
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Bargain-hunters who want a cheap discounter bottle for cola and cocktails are the honest audience here. Expect a fruity, vanilla-and-chocolate nose that reads more like fruit schnapps than rum, then a thin, sweet, spirity palate with a sharp alcoholic edge. Several tasters say it "has little to do with rum." One member even likens the bottle to a pharmacy.
The community says- Fruity nose
- Less suitable for: Anyone wanting a real rum character to sip neat
- Keep in mind: Sharp, spirity
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From community reviews · summarized with AI
Thin, spirity, more schnapps than rum Most find it thin, spirity and closer to fruit schnapps than rum. A few enjoy it in cola or tea; neat, the sharp alcohol and short finish leave people cold.
People wanting a cheap mixing bottle for cola or long drinks
Anyone wanting a real rum character to sip neat
Style & occasion: Mature & oakyCocktails & mixing
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What does the community say?
34 community reviews
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14 selected written reviews
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Review by Michael Ihmels 🇩🇪
This is a relatively inexpensive rum that you can buy at the discount store. For that, not bad at all. Tastes slightly like fruit brandy but not necessarily strong in flavor. Citrus fruits come through lightly.
Review by Timo Groeger
Honestly, for a cheap rum from the supermarket, really not bad. Thanks to my Vrudrr for buying it. It doesn't have typical rum notes and leans more towards fruit brandy, but it's something different.
Review by Willi Hass
This rum would probably not be recognized as a rum in a blind tasting. For 40% it is quite tangy and smells more like a fruit brandy than a rum. Light amber in color it is certainly colored and sweetened. The base could be a Foursquare diluted almost beyond recognition with neutral alcohol. Quite little wood, quite sweet, with little spice. The taste has probably fallen victim to the price of 8.99€.
Review by Rumpalumpa
Cheap rum in a nice bottle from Lidl. What to think of the content, I don’t really know. On the nose it initially comes out positive, quite fruity besides the alcohol. On the palate then very thin, alcoholic and unfortunately does not convince with cola either.
Review by Tim
This rum has a fruity nose, also with some vanilla and chocolate. In the mouth disappointingly thin, somewhat sweet, alcoholic spicy and fruity. Nothing new in the short finish. Overall, a rather unspectacular rum.
Review by Portman
Quite alcoholic-sharp, somehow artificial. It really has little to do with rum, and the price doesn't save it either.
Review by Rüdiger Schneider
Well, of course you can't expect much for under 9€, it's probably drinkable with a lot of cola and ice, but I'm not the standard. For me personally, it doesn't need to be sold. What I personally really like is the apothecary bottle, something completely different and it sets itself apart from all the others. But a bottle alone is worth nothing if the content is modest, but normally for under 9€ you can't and shouldn't expect good quality with nice and long barrel aging. The rating is purely based on my feeling, a 4.5 out of 10 points, only the bottle and the idea made it even reach the 4.5 points.
Review by Schnapsschuesse
Alcoholic, brandy-like, a bit of vanilla and chocolate and that's it. Nothing going on here except alcoholic sting. On the palate it's similar. More like fruit brandy, sweet, a hint of chocolate and over everything cheap booze. Leave it, move on.
Review by Cédric Meyers
More pleasant on the nose than on the palate. Too light in taste.
Review by Ondra Blahovec
For the price, probably not too bad, but I gave it 3 chances and in the end it went into drinks and tea where I actually liked it. For me a dry ester alcoholic rum. The bottle reminds me of a pharmacy and the rum in the finish too.
Review by Jiří Gajdos
Color is not, in my opinion, natural from barrel aging. Nose is a little bit strange, almost grappa like. On palate it's light bodied, thin, alcoholic sharp and it feels like dilutaded rum with some neutral alcohol. Finish is short and bitter. It really is just on the edge of drinkability.
Review by brauersven
Q4 2023. appears to me as identical to Edeka Montajo 40 Ubersee rum. Jamaican funky notes blended with industrial ethanol. Like Pott’s but better. Rumbonen rum :p
Review by Thomas Krippgans
Too strong and scratchy, more like a whisky.
Review by Michael Janek
Doesn't smell particularly or interestingly at all The taste is the same as the smell - bland, unremarkable, uninteresting I wouldn't even put it in cookies
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Mr. Finton's at live auctions
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74 bottles logged by 68 collectors.
A drinker's rum.
35% opened, 9 emptied.
What did the community pay for Mr. Finton's?
Community paid 2–14 €.
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+5 additions in the last 3 months.
Additions per month over the last 12 months; dark bars: the last 3.
74 purchased · 38 tasted · 8 wishlist · as of
Details about Mr. Finton's
A rum from Unknown, bottled by Mr. Finton's, at 40%.
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