Oliver & Oliver Presidente Marti 15 Años

Presidente Marti 15 Anos is an Oliver & Oliver release from the Dominican Republic, the blender behind a range of soft Spanish-style labels. Built from molasses on a column still and assembled as a solera, its character rests on blending and barrel more than the light spirit, with the solera build meaning it leans young while carrying a thread of older rum rather than a flat fifteen years in wood.

The nose offers tropical fruit, caramel, wood and citrus, the palate is sweet and woody with spice and tropical fruit, and the finish carries wood, caramel and a drier, barrel led turn. It drinks very sweet and dessert leaning, with candied orange and toffee threading through, an easy and affordable pour the copy keeps honest about. The sweetness is part of the style, so this lands as a soft, casual sipper for relaxed evenings rather than a complex or dry rum, comfortable for those who enjoy sugar forward Dominican rons.