Diplomatico Distillery Collection No 3 Gold Rum

No. 3 completed the Distillery Collection in 2019, and The Lone Caner calls it the best of the three. Destilerías Unidas, at the foot of the Andes in La Miel, Venezuela, runs three kinds of still, and every Diplomático rum is a blend of what they make; the Collection lets drinkers taste each component alone. No. 3 is the copper pot still — the heaviest, most flavorful distillate in the house, the one that gives the Reserva Exclusiva its weight — distilled from sugarcane honey and molasses, aged around six years in ex-bourbon oak, and bottled at 47% ABV (94 proof) in a numbered, dated bottle with the batch and month of distillation on the label. The Lone Caner found it doesn't feel stuffed with flavor at every moment but has staying power and a gradually unfolding complexity not to be dismissed, with the honest caveat that it carries the house's odd lightness for a pot-still rum. Memphis Rum Club found the 94-proof bump a welcome step up from the standard bottlings and the deconstruction concept the real highlight. Expect the richest of the three: a nose of caramel, dark fruit, cocoa, and a faint funky ester over toasted oak, opening into a fuller palate of toffee, banana, dried fig, and baking spice with more texture than its siblings, finishing long and warm. Honest note: a collector's and educator's bottle, priced as one. Neat, alongside No. 1 and No. 2, is the point.

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