John Aylesbury Corsario XO
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Sip this after dinner and it makes sense — chocolate, coffee and caramel on the nose, then a very sweet palate of cocoa, almond and orange. Several members are blunt that it drinks more like a liqueur or "flüssiges Dessert" than a traditional rum. Beginners tend to enjoy exactly that softness; anyone chasing dry, spirit-forward rum will find it flat and sugary.
The community says- Chocolate & coffee nose
- Easy for beginners
- But: Tastes sweetened
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How does John Aylesbury Corsario XO taste?
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Very sweet, chocolate-almond dessert sipper Reviews land the same way: pleasant and easy, but too sweet and a bit flat for seasoned drinkers, who repeatedly say it reads more liqueur than rum.
sweet-tooth beginners and after-dinner sippers
anyone wanting dry, spirit-forward rum
Style & occasion: Sweet & dessert
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Review by Michael Ihmels 🇩🇪
This rum is clearly too sweet for me. On the nose still quite interesting with fruity and chocolate, coffee notes. But on the palate very sweet, also chocolate and almond. Okay as a liqueur but not a rum.
Review by th.jojo
Extremely sweet rum. Good for beginners.
Review by Markus Weng 🇩🇪
Tastes like chocolate, almond, sweet
Review by Timo Groeger
After the reviews I thought something decent was coming, but the nose immediately revealed that this is not the case. Chocolate, coffee, cocoa and caramel are recognizable here. However, it is not a rum, but rather a liquid dessert again.
Review by Pavel Peknica
Excellent, honeyed, slightly orange, similar to A. H. La Galante
Review by MJ72
Calm representative, rather flat. Sweetness and vanilla.
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18 bottles logged by 17 collectors.
A drinker's rum.
50% opened, 3 emptied.
18 purchased · 11 tasted · as of
Details about John Aylesbury Corsario XO
A rum from Virgin Islands, bottled by John Aylesbury, at 40%.
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