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$89
An ultra-sweet St. Croix sipper from A.H. Riise, bottled soft at 40%, piling on caramel, chocolate, brown sugar and tropical fruit until it drinks more like a dessert liqueur than a dry aged rum, frankly built for a sweet tooth.
Description
This German-market Old St. Croix Explorer XO comes from A.H. Riise, a brand known for rich, dessert-leaning bottlings from the Virgin Islands. Kept gentle at 40%, it sets out to be soft, sweet and easy rather than dry or structured, and it delivers exactly that.
The nose is all tropical fruit, caramelised sugar and burnt sugar, and the palate doubles down with caramel, chocolate and more tropical fruit over a brown-sugar base, finishing on molasses and creme brulee. There is no hiding the sweetness here, and in honesty it reads closer to a dessert liqueur than to a classic aged rum, which is precisely its appeal for those who enjoy the style. Anyone who likes the sweeter end of the spectrum will find it a comfortable after-dinner pour; drinkers chasing dry, woody rum character should be warned it leans hard into sugar.
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