![]() ![]() This unfamiliarity seems to belie its nature as a cane spirit. The first impressions are of a rum that is too woody, with unsettling, unfamiliar flavours. This is one of those rare rums which tastes a little better each time you try it. I just cannot escape that feeling of long dusty desert mountain trails followed by wood smoke campfires. Sweetness seems to be absent as the rum exits my mouth, but the mildly bitter tea and cocoa flavours identified on the palate seem to stay on the back of the palate well after the rum is gone. The finish brings to mind dry fruit and roasted nuts. Even in its minimized form, it acts to support the other flavours allowing that mellow bitterness to become more than it was. Yet… that whisper of caramel sweetness is not lost. Caramel accents are far back in the flavour profile, sitting behind the old woody tannins, and leathery tobacco smokiness. Whispers of ripe freshly cut cocoa bean and Oolong tea set vague impressions of their presence into the rum but do not try to overwhelm it. There is a soft mild leathery (tobacco?) bitterness but, this is a mild approachable bitterness of older wood tannins, and earthy smoke. In the mouth, the rum feels old and tastes aged. The old wooden casks have been allowed to set their mark firmly into the flavour profile. In fact, I would say the Mocambo Art Edition is a celebration of old wood and cask aging. The Mocambo 20 Art Edition is a style of rum that genuflects at the altar of old wood without apology. The rum embraces its age, and its time spent in wooden casks. It is as if I really am traveling along an old forgotten trail through the low desert mountains of Mexico. This is pungent more so than sweet and I can almost smell desert dust and sagebrush. Wisps of wood smoke and rawhide drift into the air in front of a lightly sweetened caramel and dried raisin. The scents and smells which rise from the glass are very unique, and the overall effect is unlike the aroma of other spanish style rums which I have come across. When I swirl the glass, I am rewarded with moderately thick legs which trickle back down the sides of the glass. The Mocambo rum displays a leathery brown colour, with a distinct grey pallor. The bark fibers cover each glass in a different style and every bottle will have a slightly different presentation.Īnd to make things even better, the bottle is corked with a quality high density cork. I am impressed with the care and attention to detail shown. In the Bottle 5/5Īrtist, Victor Fernández, was selected to decorate the rum bottle with natural fibers to represent old Mexican handicraft in a modern art style. We will sleep well tonight under the starry Mexican skies…. Everything feels and tastes just about right. I take a small sip from a long slender bottle of Mexican rum. I am chewing on some raisins and caramels. My wife is boiling some tea by the campfire. I smell the mountain air, and it is mingled with the smells of the desert the dusty trail, the dry sage brush, even some long abandoned wooden barrels that lie at the side of the campsite. Our leather rain coats are rolled up and will be used as pillows tonight. Scraps of old dried wood found nearby are used to feed the fire which burns low to the ground and is mostly ash and coals and smoke now. Now we sit by a campfire with our throats full of dust and the sweat clinging to our faces. I sense that I have been hiking the mountain trails all day, my wife beside me sharing the journey. Perhaps because I was tired and have been working hard, my imagination brought me to the end of a dusty desert trail in the low mountains. I began my review of the Mocambo 20 Anos Anejo Rum (the Art Edition) by closing my eyes, and letting my imagination takes me where it willed. The Art Edition is a throwback style of rum which uses old techniques of production, and then combines those techniques with modern aging to produce an aged rum of unique taste and character. According to their website the 20-year-old edition which I sampled is called The Art Edition. The Ron Mocambo 20-year-old rum is distilled by Licores Veracruz, S.A. Posted June, 2010 (revisited August, 2013) ![]() Review: Mocambo 20 Anos Anejo Rum 87.5/100Ī review by Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf) ![]()
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