Ron Maja 12 Años

Ron Maja hails from El Salvador and sits in the smooth, accessible Spanish-style tradition, bottled at a gentle 40%. With little detail published on its production, it presents itself as an easy daily pour built around soft, sweet-leaning flavours rather than high-proof intensity.

In the house style of the region, expect column-distilled molasses rum mellowed in oak, typically ex-bourbon. The nose offers caramel, leather and vanilla with a faint solvent lift, the palate follows with leather, vanilla, toffee and wood, and the finish carries caramel, coffee and a touch of spice. It drinks soft and approachable, with a dessert-like cocoa note running underneath. Where it sits on added sugar is not declared, so the honest read is a rounded, comforting Latin rum best enjoyed neat or over ice by those who favour the gentler, sweeter end of the category.