Nicaragua at Vinoscout

Nicaragua

More info

At a glance

Products
3

Nicaragua stands for a style of rum that needs no help: Flor de Caña is aged at the foot of the San Cristóbal volcano in American white oak barrels – and enters the glass without additives. What you taste comes from the barrel, not from the bottle afterwards.

At Vinoscout, you will find the distillery's aged bottlings, from the accessible 12-year-old to the Centenario Gold 18 Years. If you drink rum neat and consider sweetness a crutch, this is the right place for you.

3 products

Flor de Cana Rum Centenario Gold 18 years old
Flor de Cana Rum 12 years old
Sale price33,95 €
0,7 l48,50 €/l
Sale price43,95 €
0,7 l62,79 €/l

Quick answers

Nicaragua – Rum that doesn't over-sweeten its maturity

Nicaragua is not a country with a long rum folklore, but one with a very consistent distillery. Flor de Caña has been distilling at the foot of the San Cristóbal volcano since 1890, and the volcanic soil is more than just a backdrop: the sugar cane grows there quickly and aromatically, and the water is filtered through the rock.

Maturation instead of added sugar

The crucial point is what doesn't happen: Flor de Caña does not sweeten its rums. Many Caribbean bottlings have sugar added after barrel aging, which makes young rum taste old. Here, the maturity alone carries the weight – slow-aged in American white oak barrels, without acceleration.

What to expect

We stock the matured bottlings: the 12 Years as a balanced entry-level choice, the Terra 15 Years with more depth and dried fruit, and the Centenario Gold 18 Years for a long evening. All three work well neat; if you are mixing, stick to the younger one.

Who is this for?

If you have only known rum as a sweet mixed drink so far, this is the counter-test. And if you like whisky but have found rum too sweet until now: this is exactly where Nicaragua comes in.