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- Category Rum
- Country Barbados
- Region Central America
- Distillery Undisclosed
- Style Rum
- Maturation Bourbon Barrels and White Oak Sherry Barrels
- Alcohol 40%*
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toasted oak -
lemon
Extravagant and sexy XO Rum.
Brett and Brian Berish are the Midases of Spirits: whatever they start, it turns into gold. Luc Belaire sparkling wines, McQueen and the Violet Fog Brazilian Gin, and now Bumbu Rum. Following their successful Bumbu Original, they released a divine small-batch offering: Bumbu XO. The Rum was distilled and matured at an 120-year-old distillery in Panama, using local sugarcane and spring water. After that, the precious potion spent up to 18 years in ex-Bourbon barrels and received a lovely finish in white oak Sherry barrels imported from Andalusia.
The smooth and opulent Rum is a balanced sipping piece of art. It pampers your nose with aromas of toasted oak, vanilla and toffee, while your palate enjoys orange zest, spicy pepper and a touch of coffee. Even the bottle is a masterpiece. It's hefty and black, with a golden metal X in front, and a map of the Caribbean in the back. The best way to enjoy Bumbu XO is, naturally, neat, but it will work fantastically on rocks or in the Black Beard cocktail (add Cola, Angostura and Arrack).
- Category Rum
- Country Barbados
- Region Central America
- Distillery Undisclosed
- Style Rum
- Maturation Bourbon Barrels and White Oak Sherry Barrels
- Alcohol 40%*
Appearance / Color
Burnished
Nose / Aroma / Smell
Fruity nose with notes of toffee and vanilla and a spicy background.
Flavor / Taste / Palate
Citrus flavors are complemented by notes of raisins, coffee, toffee, vanilla and roasted oak.
Finish
Spicy finish with a coffee aftertaste.
Flavor Spiral TM
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What does Bumbu XO Rum taste like?
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The Flavor Spiral™ shows the most common flavors that you'll taste in Bumbu XO Rum and gives you a chance to have a taste of it before actually tasting it.
We invented Flavor Spiral™ here at Flaviar to get all your senses involved in tasting drinks and, frankly, because we think that classic tasting notes are boring.
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orange zest -
roasted -
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toasted oak -
lemon
Bumbu
XO Rum
Dog Dogson's
Smartass corner
Rum is why we measure alcohol proof. To make sure Rum wasn’t watered down, it had to be ‘proven’ by soaking gunpowder with it. If it was ‘overproof’ (higher than 57.15 % vol.), then the gunpowder would ignite, but if it wouldn’t, it was ‘underproof.’
A little bit of etymology; nobody really knows where the word Rum comes from. The most popular suggestions are Rum (the Romani word for 'potent'), Rumbullion (an uproar), Saccharum (sugar in Latin), and Rummer (a Dutch drinking glass).
Rum (usually) comes from molasses, the sweet and syrupy residue of refining sugarcane into sugar. Molasses is over 50% sugar, but it also contains significant amounts of minerals and other trace elements, contributing to the final flavor.
Rum used to be accepted as a form of currency in Europe and Australia, a practice we should probably bring back into fashion.
Rum is a sugar cane based spirit, primarily made in the Caribbean and Latin America, but you can really find Rum in many corners of the world.
You might find Rum masquerading itself under other nom de plumes, like Ron, Rom and Rhum.
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Dog Dogson's
Smartass corner
Rum is why we measure alcohol proof. To make sure Rum wasn’t watered down, it had to be ‘proven’ by soaking gunpowder with it. If it was ‘overproof’ (higher than 57.15 % vol.), then the gunpowder would ignite, but if it wouldn’t, it was ‘underproof.’
A little bit of etymology; nobody really knows where the word Rum comes from. The most popular suggestions are Rum (the Romani word for 'potent'), Rumbullion (an uproar), Saccharum (sugar in Latin), and Rummer (a Dutch drinking glass).
Rum (usually) comes from molasses, the sweet and syrupy residue of refining sugarcane into sugar. Molasses is over 50% sugar, but it also contains significant amounts of minerals and other trace elements, contributing to the final flavor.
Rum used to be accepted as a form of currency in Europe and Australia, a practice we should probably bring back into fashion.
Rum is a sugar cane based spirit, primarily made in the Caribbean and Latin America, but you can really find Rum in many corners of the world.
You might find Rum masquerading itself under other nom de plumes, like Ron, Rom and Rhum.
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