The Paraiso is simply too expensive for me to risk purchasing. It pays to experiment! The Eximo is still the better buy between the two. Shocking!!! I now have this new bottle ranked one notch below it's cheaper brother and one notch above the South Bay. ![]() Hmm!!! What if I made a 50/50 mixture of the $32 South Bay with the $75 Facundo Eximo? Voila!!!! With this blend, I could barely tell it apart from my new bottle of Facundo Exquisito that ran me $90 yesterday. The Exquisto is definitely more complex than the South Bay, but something was missing from the South Bay. This Facundo Exquisito is much smoother, however it reminded me of my bottle of South Bay Batch 18 from the Dominican Republic. As others have stated, the Eximo has a bit stronger taste, almost in your face. It would be a crying shame to use it any other way.Īfter more than six weeks, I finally got to try this Facundo side by side with their Eximo. This is an extremely well-crafted rum in a well-crafted bottle. This is a rum for special occasions and for display. At $90-$100 USD a bottle this is not a rum you pick up on a whim. There is a distinct oakiness to it but not bitter. When I tasted it I noticed a marked vanilla flavor and a sweetness to it (sugared?) but not overly sweet (tempered by the sherry casks perhaps?). The color of the rum is a rich, dark mahogany fading to a golden hue in the shallower points of the snifter. Brace the bottle well when pulling that cork out. The cap is metal with a wide rubber cork. I like the art deco design on the bottle. ![]() And if that weren't enough the rum blend is then finished in sherry casks for about a month or more and hand bottled in Tultitlán Mexico. The rum itself is a blend of different rums aged between 7 and 23 years in American oak barrels in the Bahamas. At the time I though "Facundo" was just another brand of premium rums but learned soon that "Facundo" was, in fact, Facundo Bacardi of the Bacardi Rum conglomerate. Let me be upfront, it was the bottle design that got me curious about this.
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