Captain Morgan Sliced Apple

Captain Morgan Sliced Apple is an apple flavoured rum liqueur bottled at just 25%, which places it well outside the world of aged sipping rum. Built on a molasses rum base and heavily flavoured and sweetened, it is honestly a sweet liqueur aimed at casual, fun drinking rather than at rum character.

The nose is green apple, sweet and candied with a floral note, and the palate is liquid green apple candy with a chemical, plastic edge and plenty of sugar, finishing on more sweet, artificial apple. Drinkers describe it bluntly as green apple sweets in liquid form, too artificial and far too sweet to take seriously as a rum. Where it earns its keep is as a playful party mixer or a sweetener in cool summer drinks, where the bold apple candy flavour can carry a long drink. Set against any expectation of depth or classic rum notes, it will disappoint, so it is best judged purely as the novelty it is.