Dos Maderas PX 5+5 Rum

PX 5+5 is the sherried rum — the bottle that did for rum what Macallan did for whisky, and won gold at the Miami Rum Renaissance the year after it launched in 2009. Dos Maderas means "two woods": Williams & Humbert, the Jerez sherry house founded in 1877, sources five-year-old rum from Guyana and Barbados, ships it to Spain, and ages it five more years in three stages — first in casks that held Dos Cortados, its twenty-year Palo Cortado, then two final years in butts that held Don Guido, its twenty-year Pedro Ximénez — before bottling at 40% ABV, the color deep amber shading to red. Cigar Inspector called it unlike any rum they'd tried: caramel, nuts, dried dark fruit, vanilla, sherry, and leather on the nose, then sweet sherry, caramel, spice, dark fruit, chocolate, and coffee, finishing long with oak and anise. The Rum Howler scored it 88.5 for its charm and very interesting flavor, with the honest note that after five years of sherry wood the rum gets a little lost and the sherry a little dominant. The Fat Rum Pirate found it El Dorado-like with a sherry-drying edge; Rum Ratings' drinkers praise the balance of dry and sweet and note it's the one to spend on. Honest note: the sweetness comes from PX-soaked wood, and it reads rich. For a cigar, a dessert pour, or a Rum Old Fashioned that tastes like Jerez, it's the sherried rum.

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