Rum Magec XO Oloroso

Rum Magec XO Oloroso is an extra añejo from Spain, distilled on a pot still from molasses and finished in oloroso sherry casks, bottled at 40%. It is a Spanish take on aged rum that aims for a dry, sherried style rather than the sweet ron many associate with the region.

The oloroso cask lends a fruity, faintly sweet aroma over spicy and woody notes, but the rum reads drier than that suggests on the palate, fruity and lightly sweet at first before turning notably dry and alcoholic. The finish stays dry with a medicinal, bitter edge and some spirit warmth, and there is a slightly diluted, thin quality at the modest strength. It is an honest, unsweetened sherried rum rather than a rich crowd pleaser, one for drinkers curious about Spain's drier rum experiments who do not mind a more austere, spirit forward character.