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Bayou Réserve Select Barrel 2012
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Expecting a bold Louisiana pot-still rum? This one leans the other way. It's light and vanilla-heavy, with apple, brown sugar and cinnamon, and a lot of ex-bourbon character coming through. Several tasters found it pleasant but bland, and a few felt the 40% makes it taste watered down. One reviewer called it a natural for a rum old fashioned.
The community says- Easy vanilla sweetness
- Good in cocktails
- But: Feels thin at 40%
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How does Bayou Réserve Select Barrel 2012 taste?
Summarized by AI from community reviews.
Light, sweet, vanilla-and-bourbon everyday sipper Divides people: fans call it a great affordable everyday pour, while others find it bland, thin at 40%, and too dominated by sweet bourbon notes.
People easing into rum from bourbon who like light, sweet, vanilla-forward pours
Anyone wanting bold, high-proof, complex rum
Style & occasion: Sweet & dessertSipping neatCocktails & mixing
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25 community reviews
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Review by StormAK
Most helpful positive review
This is my favorite rum among inexpensive standard releases. Everything you want from a rum is here, plus a very good influence from the bourbon barrel. Magnificent!
Review by Tano
Most helpful critical review
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 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 Gregor
Added sugar and caramel tones I already know from this distillery. Unfortunately, this one is no exception. Unfortunately, overall it is not very exciting and rather boring. Could also have more proof for my taste.
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 Adam Rajchert
Smell: Pretzels, saltiness, caramel, licorice, cocoa, pear, cinnamon, raisins, bourbon, butter, lovage, oat flakes, leather Taste: Pear, dried plum, cinnamon, pretzels, cocoa, licorice, oiliness, a bit of smoke
Review by frseec
The rum tastes just like it smells, sharply alcoholic and sweet. The sharpness lingers longer in the finish.
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.
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47 bottles logged by 45 collectors.
Both drunk and collected.
29% opened, 7 emptied.
What does Bayou Réserve Select Barrel 2012 cost?
Community paid 15–31 €.
Current best price: 43.17 € – above the typical community range.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 27 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ ›
47 purchased · 26 tasted · 7 wishlist · as of
Details about Bayou Réserve Select Barrel 2012
A Pot Still Rum from USA, distilled by Bayou, at 40%.
About the Bayou distillery
The Bayou distillery is located in USA. Rums from Bayou have been reviewed 155 times with an average of 7.0/10.
To Bayou ›Read on in the RumX Guide
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