Bayou Réserve Select Barrel 2012
A newcomer-friendly, unsweetened molasses rum at 40% with clear bourbon-barrel influence. Expect vanilla, caramel, light oak, pear and dried fruits. RumX members see it as an easy sipper and decent value mixer rather than a complex bottle to ponder.
- Easy-drinking
- Bourbon influence
- Good value
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How does Bayou Réserve Select Barrel 2012 taste?
Aggregated from 24 community reviews.
Light, bourbon‑leaning everyday sipper A newcomer-friendly, unsweetened molasses rum at 40% with clear bourbon-barrel influence. Expect vanilla, caramel, light oak, pear and dried fruits. RumX members see it as an easy sipper and decent value mixer rather than a complex bottle to ponder.
Those new to rum or coming from bourbon who want an affordable, light, vanilla-and-caramel sipper that also works in simple cocktails like a rum fashioned.
Enthusiasts seeking high-ester funk, strong oak tannins or cask strength rums; anyone wanting big complexity or intensity in their glass.
How is Bayou Réserve Select Barrel 2012 rated?
RumX's 0–10 scale is strict — 7.0 lands squarely in the "Good" band. 33% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 8% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
Rum reviews
A selection of the most popular reviews from our community. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Stefan Persson
Overall a quite bland rum that’s nothing to write home about with lots of bourbon taste. I tasted it at the Stockholm Beer & Spirits Fair 2023. This Louisiana rum from Bayou is a molasses rum. The sugarcane has grown in the soils around the Mississippi River Delta. After fermentation it’s distilled in a copper pot still whereafter it’s aged in ex-bourbon barrels for up to 4 years using the Solera method.
Review by StormAK
Это мой любимый ром из недорогих стандартный релизов. Все что ты хочешь от рома тут есть, плюс очень хорошее влияние бурбонной бочки. Великолепно!
Review by Gregor
I am already familiar with added sugar and caramel tones from this distillery. Unfortunately, this is no exception. Unfortunately, the overall picture is not very exciting and rather boring. Could also have more percentages for my taste
Review by Tano
Just a bland, dull an unspiring rum. It's harsh and bland at the same time, lacking character and complexity to be a sipper and just average on cocktails. It's hard to believe that this is 100% copper still. I respect the company but I highly doubt that this is true. For the price I paid (13,5€) I really can't complain, but I had high hopes considering that this was a copper pot still rum from Luisiana. Not recommended.
Review by Alvin Rodriguez
As a sipper, it’s not that sophisticated but it’s pleasant. Wouldn’t know about mixing because I don’t drink cocktails, but I do enjoy a rum fashioned or a ‘ti punch. Would definitely be amazing for a rum fashioned and I think that’s how I will mostly have this rum.
Review by Mc Pirate
Too used lately to taste rums with much more character (60 degrees), this one remains very light and seems to be cut with water. Otherwise no particular defects, light and sweet despite these 40 degrees. Very vanilla in the nose as well as in the mouth with a persistence of fresh fruits.
Review by Adam Rajchert
Zapach: Precle, słoność, karmel, lukrecja, kakao, gruszka, cynamon, rodzynki, bourbon, masło, lubczyk, płatki owsiane, skóra Smak: gruszka, suszona śliwka, cynamon, precle, kakao, lukrecja, oleistość, odrobina dymu
Community purchases
49 bottles logged by 52,000+ RumX members. The ratio of closed / opened / emptied, indicates whether this rum is meant to be drunk or is a collector's item.
Also on the wishlist of 6 members.
About the Bayou distillery
The Bayou distillery is located in USA. Rums from Bayou have been reviewed 147 times with an average of 7.0/10.
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