Golden Rum Reviews & Tasting Notes


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

While 'golden 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 golden rum category contains a hugely diverse range of products from dry and light rums to rich and sweet rums, and from affordable mixing rums to super premium sipping rums. Always remember to look beyond the colour!

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Gold Rum Reviews: A-Z

A B
  • Bacardi Oakheart - New Review
  • Bacardi Carta Oro Rum - New Review
  • Bacardi Reserva Ocho Rum
  • Barcelo Gran Anejo Rum
  • Bayou Select Rum
  • ​Blue Mauritius Gold Rum
  • Bortran Rum
  • Bounty Gold Rum
  • Brugal Anejo Rum
C
  • Cacique Anejo Rum
  • Cana Brava Rum
  • Cane Island Belize Rum
  • Cane Island Cuba Rum
  • Captain Bligh XO Rum
  • Clarke's Court Old Grog Gin
  • Cruzan Rum 151
D E
  • El Dorado 5 Year Old Rum
  • El Dorado 8 Year Old Rum
  • El Dorado 12 Year Old Rum
  • Elements Eight Vendome Gold Rum
F
  • Flor De Cana Rum
G
  • Gosling's Gold Rum
  • Greensand Ridge Rum
H I
  • Inner Circle Red Dot Rum
K
  • Kane's Caribbean Golden Rum
  • Kirk and Sweeney Rum
L
  • La Hechicera Rum
  • Liverpool Rum
M
  • Matuga Golden Rum
  • Matusalem Clasico Rum
  • Mezan Rum
  • Mhoba Stand's 1010 Rum
  • Monymush Classic Gold Rum
  • Mount Gay Rum
N
  • Neptune Rum
  • New Grove Old Tradition Rum
  • Nine Leaves Rum
O
  • Old Bakery Rum
P
  • Pampero Especial Rum
  • Papagayo Organic Gold Rum​
  • Pirate's Grog Rum
  • Plantation Rum
  • Pyrat XO Reserve Rum
R
  • Rathlee Rum
  • R.L.Seale's Rum
  • Relicario Superior Rum
  • Ron Abuelo Rum
  • Ron de Jeremy Rum
  • Ron Zacapa
  • Rum Sixty Six Family Reserve
  • RumBar Gold Rum
S
  • Santa Teresa 1796 - New Review
  • Seven Fathoms Rum
  • Smith and Cross Rum
  • Sparrows Premium Rum
T
  • The Duppy Share Rum
  • The Real McCoy Rum
  • The Scarlet Iris Rum
V
  • Virgin Gorda Rum
W
  • Waterhall Estate Rum
  • Worthy Park Rum
All gold rums reviewed 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 Golden Rum?

There is no strict definition of a what makes a rum ‘golden’, but typically golden rums have been aged in wooden barrels for several years, during which time the initially clear spirit gains colour from the wood. Golden rums are generally considered to have more complex flavours than young white rums. Rums can also be made golden in colour by adding caramel after distillation, and this is frequently used to ensure consistency in colour between batches.

How to Choose a Golden Rum

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How to Serve Golden Rum

They can be enjoyed neat but are also used in cocktails which call for a stronger rum flavour. Visit our Rum Cocktails Guide to discover the ideal servings for golden rum.