{"title":"Facundo Rum","description":"\u003cp\u003eFacundo is the Bacardí family's ultra-premium sipping rum collection, named for founder Facundo Bacardí Massó and drawn from the family's private reserves. Shop Facundo Neo, Eximo, Exquisito and Paraiso at Chips Liquor and buy online with fast shipping right to your door.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"facundo-aged-rum-exquisito","title":"Facundo Exquisito Aged Rum","description":"\u003cp\u003eExquisito is the second-highest bottle in Bacardí's Facundo collection — the four-rum range launched in 2013 and named for Don Facundo Bacardí Massó, who founded the company in Santiago de Cuba in 1862 — and the one Rum Ratings' tasters call a really nice step up from the Eximo. It's a blend of rums aged seven to twenty-three years in ex-bourbon oak, distilled on Bacardí's column stills in Puerto Rico, married, and then given a final month in ex-sherry casks before bottling at 40% ABV in a gold-leafed bottle evoking a 1900s Havana party. Inu A Kena found it a deep mahogany bordering on dark brown, with tropical fruit and melon and oak on the nose and far less astringency than the Eximo. Rum Ratings' drinkers find it much smoother and more complex than the Eximo — one ran a side-by-side experiment and concluded Bacardí is indeed capable of very good rum and trying to shed its bottom-shelf image. The Fat Rum Pirate rated it two stars, finding the 40% proof very conservative for a $100 rum. Honest note: this is a soft, polished, Spanish-style sipper built for cognac drinkers rather than a funky pot-still rum, and priced as a luxury bottle. For a slow neat pour, a cigar, or the bottle that shows what twenty-three-year-old Bacardí stock tastes like with a sherry kiss. Named for freedom, in the founder's name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuy Facundo Exquisito Aged Rum online with fast shipping right to your door.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chips Liquor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40171872157852,"sku":"C0004337L","price":132.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0057\/8089\/7892\/products\/EsqRum.jpg?v=1623719177"},{"product_id":"facundo-aged-rum-eximo","title":"Facundo Eximo Aged Rum","description":"\u003cp\u003eFacundo is Bacardí's proof that it can make serious rum — a four-bottle collection launched in 2013 and named for Don Facundo Bacardí Massó, who founded the company in Santiago de Cuba in 1862 — and Eximo is the one that's made differently. Where most rums are aged first and blended after, Eximo was blended before aging: the master blender married unaged spirit with one- and two-year-old rums in used American oak bourbon barrels, then aged the marriage ten years in the Bahamas, before blending to 40% ABV and bottling in a heavy decanter with a raised sunburst X for the decade inside. Got Rum? found it dynamically interesting — a lot going on from first sip to robust finish, and a very different experience from Neo and Exquisito. Rum Ratings' drinkers: honey, caramel, oak, and a touch of bourbon, smoother and oakier than a normal Puerto Rican rum, surprised to learn it was Bacardí, and the better value in the range — several rank it above the Exquisito. Honest note: Inu A Kena wanted to love it and found the $65 price and a wobbly cap hard to square with a 40% Spanish-style rum, and enthusiasts who want funk won't find it here. What it is: a polished, oak-forward, cognac-leaning sipper from the biggest rum house on earth, for a Rum Old Fashioned or a neat pour that shows Bacardí's ceiling. Blended first, aged ten years, bottled in a decanter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuy Facundo Eximo Aged Rum online with fast shipping right to your door.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chips Liquor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40171944542364,"sku":"C0004340L","price":73.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0057\/8089\/7892\/products\/Exinmo.jpg?v=1623719910"},{"product_id":"facundo-light-rum-silver-neo","title":"Facundo NEO Silver Light Rum","description":"\u003cp\u003eNeo is the white rum in Bacardí's Facundo collection — the four-rum range launched in 2013 and named for Don Facundo Bacardí Massó, who founded the company in Santiago de Cuba in 1862 — and it's aged rum with the color taken out. Rather than a young spirit, Neo is a blend of Puerto Rican rums aged up to eight years in ex-bourbon oak, distilled on Bacardí's column stills, then charcoal-filtered to clear and bottled at 40% ABV in the heavy Facundo decanter. The idea is a white rum with the body and complexity of an aged one, in the tradition of the filtered aged whites Cuba was famous for. Got Rum? found it a very different experience from the Eximo and Exquisito. Expect a nose of coconut, vanilla, light tropical fruit, and a faint oak note that a young white wouldn't have, opening into a smooth, rounded, gently sweet palate with more texture than a standard Bacardí Superior and a clean, dry finish. Honest note: this is a polished, Spanish-style white for sipping and premium cocktails — not a funky Jamaican or a grassy agricole — and it's priced well above the bar-well whites, which enthusiasts have questioned. For a Daiquiri that wants an aged white, a Hemingway Special, a top-shelf Mojito, or neat over ice the way Cuban whites were meant to be drunk, it's Bacardí showing what its white can be. Aged up to eight years, filtered clear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuy Facundo NEO Silver Light Rum online with fast shipping right to your door.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chips Liquor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42854231343360,"sku":"C0005876L","price":47.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0057\/8089\/7892\/products\/NeoRum.jpg?v=1653850150"},{"product_id":"facundo-paraiso-aged-rum","title":"Facundo Paraiso Aged Rum","description":"\u003cp\u003eParaíso is the top of Bacardí's Facundo collection — the four-rum range launched in 2013 and named for Don Facundo Bacardí Massó, who founded the company in Santiago de Cuba in 1862 — and it's built from the oldest stocks the company will admit to. It's a blend of rums aged seventeen to twenty-three years in ex-bourbon oak, distilled on Bacardí's column stills, then finished in old cognac barrels and bottled at 40% ABV in a heavy crystal decanter with a wooden presentation box, labeled XA, extra añejo. The Lone Caner found a briny, soft, mildly fruity nose of almond, vanilla, Toblerone, tobacco, grassy herbs, and oak, and a palate that, blend of old rums or not, hews closely to the formula of its mega-selling downmarket cousins — sweet, light, and, in his words, too faint, wondering why it wasn't bottled at 45%. Rum Ratings' drinkers who loved the Eximo and Exquisito found the Paraíso simply too expensive to risk. Honest note: this is a luxury bottle at a luxury price, and much of it is the decanter — enthusiasts who want intensity should look at cask-strength independents at a fraction of the cost. What it is: the smoothest, softest, most cognac-like rum Bacardí makes, for the drinker who wants the founder's name on the most expensive thing in the collection. Neat, in a snifter, on an occasion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuy Facundo Paraiso Aged Rum online with fast shipping right to your door.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chips Liquor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43496255488256,"sku":"C0005875L","price":279.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0057\/8089\/7892\/products\/ParaiscoRum.jpg?v=1671308008"}],"url":"https:\/\/chipsliquor.com\/collections\/facundo-rum.oembed","provider":"Chips Liquor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}