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Dark Rum Reviews & Tasting Notes

Dark rum reviews, information, tasting notes and serving suggestions. Find out more about your favourite dark and black rums and their distilleries, and discover new rums with the 'You Might Also Like...' recommendations!

While 'dark rum' is a conventionally used rum category, there's so much more that defines a rum than it's colour; from the raw materials, distillation process, ageing, blending, and addition of sugar, sweeteners and colouring, to the flavour profile, character, complexity and provenance. The dark rum category contains a hugely diverse range of products from highly aged rums to highly coloured rums, and from lower cost mixing rums to super premium sipping rums. Always remember to look beyond the colour!


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Dark Rum Reviews: A - Z

A
  • Alnwick Rum
  • Atlantico Gran Reserva Rum
B
  • Bacardi Carta Negra Rum - New Review
  • Bayou Select Rum
  • Bounty Dark Rum
C
  • Captain Morgan Original Rum - New Review
D
  • Dictador Solera XO Rum
E
  • El Dorado 15 Year Old Rum
  • El Dorado 21 Year Old Rum
  • El Dorado 25 Year Old Rum
G
  • Gold of Mauritius Dark Rum
  • Goslings Black Seal Rum - New Review
K
  • Kirk & Sweeney Rum - 12 Year Old
  • Kirk & Sweeney Rum - 18 Year Old
  • Kirk & Sweeney Rum - 23 Year Old
L
  • Lamb's Navy Rum
M
  • Mhoba American Oak Aged Rum
  • Myers's Rum
N
  • New Grove Dark Rum
R
  • Rebellion Premium Black Rum
  • Red Bonny Dark Rum
S
  • Sikkim Himalayan XXX Prize Rum
T
  • Takamaka Extra Noir Rum
W
  • Wild Tiger Rum
  • Wood's Old Navy Rum
X
  • XM Rum
All rums listed have been tasted independently by the World Rum Guide's expert tasting panel, offering our opinions and tasting notes alongside information and key facts about each rum. All details are verified as correct at the time of publishing and whilst reviews are regularly updated, information may have changed.

What is Dark Rum?

The best dark rums owe their colour to being aged for many years in oak barrels which have been charred or fired. This helps to pass on the strong colours and flavours of the wood to the rum. It was this style of rum which formed the daily rum ration on Royal Navy ships until 31 July 1970 when the ration was stopped.

How to Choose a Dark Rum

Some dark rums gain their colour not through years of ageing, but because producers add high volumes of caramel colouring, burnt sugar or molasses to the spirit after distillation. These rums are sometimes marketed as ‘black’ rums.

How to Serve Dark Rum

Dark rums are typically designed to be sipped neat like a high-quality single malt whisky.

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