

El Viejito El Prohibido Rum Solera 12 YO
(0.7l, 40%)
Taking on the qualities of Cognac.
As everyone who has ever enjoyed Spring Break in Mexico quickly learns, Cerveza is Spanish for beer. Cervecera Mexicana, therefore, obviously got its start brewing beer in Tecate, Mexico, in 1923 — including the famous “Cerveza Mexicali” beer. Today, Cervecera Mexicana brews and distills a wide variety specialty beers — controlling 63% of the Mexican beer market — and interesting craft spirits as a subsidiary of Grupo Modelo/Anheuser-Busch InBev.
El Prohibido means the prohibited and harkens back to the distillery’s days of creating adult beverages just across the border during the Prohibition Era.
El Prohibido Rum Solera 12 YO starts as a classic cane Rum. But it is the pristine and exemplary aging process that sets this spirit apart. They age this Rum by the Solera method for a full 12 years in casks that previously held raisin wine. And it works magic, transforming the Rum into a liqueur-like spirit that tastes more like a strong, sweet Cognac with a dark, garnet hue showing through a beautiful bottle presentation.
As everyone who has ever enjoyed Spring Break in Mexico quickly learns, Cerveza is Spanish for beer. Cervecera Mexicana, therefore, obviously got its start brewing beer in Tecate, Mexico, in 1923 — including the famous “Cerveza Mexicali” beer. Today, Cervecera Mexicana brews and distills a wide variety specialty beers — controlling 63% of the Mexican beer market — and interesting craft spirits as a subsidiary of Grupo Modelo/Anheuser-Busch InBev.
El Prohibido means the prohibited and harkens back to the distillery’s days of creating adult beverages just across the border during the Prohibition Era.
El Prohibido Rum Solera 12 YO starts as a classic cane Rum. But it is the pristine and exemplary aging process that sets this spirit apart. They age this Rum by the Solera method for a full 12 years in casks that previously held raisin wine. And it works magic, transforming the Rum into a liqueur-like spirit that tastes more like a strong, sweet Cognac with a dark, garnet hue showing through a beautiful bottle presentation.
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Category
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StyleDark Rum
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RegionMexico
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CountryMexico
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Alcohol40%
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DistilleryEl Ron Prohibido
Flavor Spiral™
About The Flavor Spiral
raisin
prunes
coffee
chocolate
nutmeg
leather
sweet vanilla
sweet
beer
What does El Prohibido Rum Solera 12 YO taste like?
The Flavor Spiral™ shows the most common flavors that you'll taste in El Prohibido Rum Solera 12 YO 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.
The Flavor Spiral™ shows the most common flavors that you'll taste in El Prohibido Rum Solera 12 YO 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.

Dog Dogson's
Smartass
Corner
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, if it wouldn’t, it was ‘underproof’.
Tasting Notes
Appearance / Color
Dark Garnet
Nose / Aroma / Smell
Fresh baked nut-bread, vanilla ice cream, and prunes
Flavor / Taste / Palate
Thick and rich with chocolate, coffee, brown sugar, nutmeg, and leather
Finish
Warm sweet espresso
Flavour Spiral
raisin, prunes, chocolate, coffee, nutmeg, leather, sweet, vanilla
Smartass Corner
The Solera aging method was first used with fortified Wines and some balsamic vinegars. Periodically, each barrel or vat is only half emptied, then it is refilled. This way each new batch is half of the spirit that preceded it, and so on … theoretically forever. Which is why the Italians call the process “Perpetua.” Solera spirits can contain portions of VERY old spirit.
Dark Garnet
Nose / Aroma / Smell
Fresh baked nut-bread, vanilla ice cream, and prunes
Flavor / Taste / Palate
Thick and rich with chocolate, coffee, brown sugar, nutmeg, and leather
Finish
Warm sweet espresso
Flavour Spiral
raisin, prunes, chocolate, coffee, nutmeg, leather, sweet, vanilla
Smartass Corner
The Solera aging method was first used with fortified Wines and some balsamic vinegars. Periodically, each barrel or vat is only half emptied, then it is refilled. This way each new batch is half of the spirit that preceded it, and so on … theoretically forever. Which is why the Italians call the process “Perpetua.” Solera spirits can contain portions of VERY old spirit.
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