Albert Michler Distillery Ron Espero Orient Liqueur Dubai-Style Chocolate & Rum

Ron Espero's Orient Liqueur is a flavoured, chocolate-themed bottling from Albert Michler Distillery, built on a Dominican rum base and styled around the Dubai chocolate trend. It is presented as a liqueur and a flavoured rum, so it belongs in the dessert-and-treat category rather than among aged sipping ron.

The Dominican molasses rum underneath is sweetened and flavoured at 40%, giving a sweet, candied fruit nose and a syrupy, chocolate-forward palate that finishes on confectionery and more chocolate. This is unapologetically sweet and dessert-driven, closer to a chocolate liqueur than a dry spirit, and is best judged on those terms. A rich, indulgent pour for chocolate lovers and for dressing up coffees or desserts, rather than a rum to sip neat for spirit character.