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Dictador 20 Years
Sipped neat it reads like sweetened black coffee: caramel, dark chocolate, toffee and a puff of tobacco smoke, going a bit bitter and walnutty at the end. Several tasters call it thin for 40% and clearly sweetened — closer to coffee liqueur than a 20-year sipper for some. Others happily drink it after dinner or splash it over ice.
The community says- Coffee-chocolate nose
- Easy to drink
- Contains added sugar
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How does Dictador 20 Years taste?
Aggregated from 331 community reviews.
Sweet coffee-and-chocolate sipper, thin body Divides people hard: fans love the coffee-chocolate warmth after a meal, while skeptics find it too sweet, thin, and doubt the age. Everyone agrees the coffee note is front and center.
People who like sweet, coffee-forward after-dinner rums
Anyone avoiding sugar or wanting a dry, full-bodied aged rum
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What does the community say?
70% rate it between 6 and 8. 20 selected write-ups from 331 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
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Review by Bennet
Most helpful positive review
Holziger Rum mit cremigee angenehmer Süße
Review by Oliver
Most helpful critical review
Tastes like coffee liqueur. Too sweet for my taste.
Review by BTHHo 🥃
Intense, dark amber-golden color and bold, rich aroma of caramel, vanilla, honey, freshly roasted coffee and oak. Soft, round, strong and sweet on the tongue with the characteristics of the aroma.
Review by Christoph
Dunkle Schokolade, aber noch intensiver Kaffee in Nase und Mund. Im Abgang kommt etwas Orangenschale dazu. Der Alkohol ist trotz der 40% im Abgang noch etwas vorhanden.
Review by WiltChamberlain
News about Dictador: I still believe that the rums are sweetened and provided with additives, so I wrote to the German importer 'Kirsch Import' and drew attention to various articles on the net and now received an answer. You can find the answer as an attached picture.
Review by X-Savior
On The Rocks: On the nose we get hints of sweetness, bacon, mild fruit and spice. Taste reveals a little more sweet and spice with bacon and coffee undertones. Finish is medium and mildly sweet. Mixed Pepsi Zero: On the nose mild sweetness. Taste has mild sweetness that evolves into mild coffee and a slight bitterness. Finish is very short with a slight bitterness.
Review by Michael Schillheim
Lots of coffee, lots of chocolate. A little too much of everything. Not a highlight, but not undrinkable either. If you want to have a drink in the evening without constantly wanting/needing to analyze your rum, then the Dictador is justified. Not a must-have in my collection.
Review by pavlix vipax
Vo vôni dosť liehove, v chuti aj mierna sladkosť ale dosť stipe, napriek tomu dospelackejsie pitie
Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
Bäh! Sind in der Nase noch relativ angenehme süße Kaffee- und Schokoladennoten vorhanden, passiert am Gaumen so gut wie nichts. Wirkt wie gefärbtes und gesüßtes Wasser mit einem Schuss Supermarktrum aus dem untersten Regal. Ich hätte blind auf HC 3 años oder so getippt. Finger weg, wer sich nicht den Abend vermiesen will.
Review by Lucas Scrivener
Very rich, round rum of the darkest molasses. Fantastic end of night rum
Review by kudzey
At this level of watering down it lacks intensity. The overwhelming sweetness rises questions at every sip.
Review by JonasTh
Vanille. Lekkerder dan 12y
Review by Fuwi
Yuck! I got this from Zabo, must have been a cupboard find. Was just supposed to be a silly mixer on vacation at the beach - sun, limes, ice and a little rum. It has such a penetrating aroma of a well-known liquid condiment, it doesn't even work with the juice of a whole lime, let alone pure. I gave it to a Thai waiter as a gift.
Review by Juris Sumskis
Very pleasant smell of toffee, caramel. Easy to drink neat.
Review by ChristophFFM
Laut diversen Blogs wurden hier Zucker und künstliche Aromen hinzugefügt. Der Rum rieht wirklich zu gut um wahr zu sein. Geschmacklich auch sehr angenehm. Abgang kurz. Fake rum mit Zusätzen?
Review by Holger
Sweet and spicy at the same time. Chili and licorice at the same time, warming, slightly astringent and a very, very long finish. If you like this type of rum, you've come to the right place.
Review by Paweł My
Dominuje smak palonego cukru, ale nie jest słodki, można się doszukać aromatu taniej kawy. Dziwny rum, nie smakuje jak 20 year old, ale to solera, więc w sumie nie wiadomo ile lat był starzony. Nie wrócę do niego, w tej cenie jest mnóstwo lepszych rumów. To nie jest rum ani dla początkujących, ani dla zaawansowanych, produkt stworzony na zamówienie marketingu.
Review by waterglass11
Long finish. Starts sweet and spiced, goes to caramel, and finishes butterscotch. Super tasty sipper!
Review by Schnapsschuesse
Die Nase ist seltsam - einfach schon weil so unglaublich viel Kaffee. Zusammen mit den Berichten im Netz liest sich das alles etwas fishy... Im Mund ist das ganze dann unglaublich dünn für die Nase. Kaffeelikör trifft's ganz gut - enorm süß, enorm viel Kaffee. Rum? Nich so. Würde ich blind nicht als solchen identifizieren können - sondern maximal für ein Kaffeeprodukt auf Rumbasis halten. Autsch. Hier stimmt irgendwas gewaltig nicht...
Review by Jerzy Stępień
Kawowy, delikatnie słodki
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Details about Dictador 20 Years
A Pot & Column Still Rum from Colombia, distilled by Destilería Colombiana, at 40%.
Community purchases
546 bottles logged by 516 collectors.
A drinker's rum.
40% opened, 80 emptied and repurchased.
What does Dictador 20 Years cost?
Community paid 40–75 €.
Current best price: 42.28 € – within the typical community range.
What members actually paid for their bottles. A typical range, not the current shop price. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
+8 purchases in the last 3 months.
Added to collections, last 12 months — dark bars are the last 3.
546 purchased · 363 tasted · 213 wishlist · as of
About the Destilería Colombiana distillery
The Destilería Colombiana distillery is located in Colombia. Rums from Destilería Colombiana have been reviewed 1,857 times with an average of 7.5/10.
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