Distiller Notes
Facundo Exquisito Premium Blended Rum’s aroma is definitive, yet delicately balanced, with nuances of cinnamon, dates, dark berries and toasted oak. On the palate lies a rich and mellow character, with robust notes of raisins, apricots and baking spices, with a hint of butterscotch - on a warm, lingering finish.
The “Exquisito” in Facundo® Exquisito Premium Blended Rum means “exquisite,” in Latin, a name based on this rum’s very delicate, exquisite nature. As a sublime, very rare, and balanced rum, Facundo Exquisito embodies the culture, music and fashion of Havana’s heyday, when nightlife ruled supreme and Cuba offered weary Americans a brief respite from Prohibition. Sublimely smooth and effortlessly drinkable, Facundo Exquisito Premium Blended Rum gains its suave, sociable character from a hand-picked, premier blend of rums, ranging in age from seven to 23 years old. Many of the medium-to-full-bodied rums used for this premium rum are filtered over activated charcoal before they are aged in oak barrels. Following the ageing process, Facundo Exquisito is finished in sherry casks, lending the rum an incomparably mellow profile.
Often referred to as a Gold Rum, an Aged Rum is one that has been aged in barrels, often Ex-Bourbon or White Oak before bottling. As the Rum continues to age, it draws more and more color and flavor from the wood, adding both body and complexity to the finished product. Aged Rums can be sipped neat or added to cocktails. They fall somewhere in between White and Dark Rums in terms of their respective strength of flavor.