Centenario Café

Centenario Café comes from Costa Rica's Fabrica Nacional de Licores, the national distillery behind the Centenario range, and it is a coffee infused rum built on a molasses base. Bottled at just 26.5% with no age statement, it is openly a flavoured, sweetened product, made to deliver coffee character rather than to stand as a dry aged rum.

The profile is unmistakably coffee, with espresso, mocha and nutty aromas opening onto a palate of coffee, cappuccino and more mocha before a creamy finish. In practice this drinks as a coffee liqueur rather than a rum, which is the fair way to frame it, rich and sweet and easy. At low strength it makes a natural after dinner pour, an espresso martini base or a splash over ice cream, best approached as a dessert spirit for coffee lovers rather than a sipping rum.