Facundo NEO Silver Light Rum

Neo 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.

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