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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
- But: Contains added sugar
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How does Dictador 20 Years taste?
Aggregated from 342 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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61% rate it between 6 and 8. 46 selected write-ups from 342 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
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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
Most helpful positive review
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 Oliver
Most helpful critical review
Tastes like coffee liqueur. Too sweet for my taste.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Had a very nice Dictador tasting this Sunday and this is the second one of the six. This is the second time I have this rum in a tasting and this time it got a few more points. This rum is made from sugarcane and honey molasses, which is pretty rare. In this rum you can really smell and taste the honey. This is a must try if you like Zacapa rum because they're pretty similar. Price to quality is very good. This rum won gold at the 2010 International Rum Expert Panel.
Review by Aussierumfan
Clearly a rum that has been artificially sweetened..... I'm not sure what the 20 means, pretty typical Latin American exaggeration with the age statements! There is vanilla, and a coffee note that I got, and lot of sweet caramel. Not much of a finish. It's not the worst rum however, and it does disappear very quickly - its easy to drink with no bite at all, almost a liquer.
Review by Bennet
Holziger Rum mit cremigee angenehmer Süße
Review by zabo
Found again at the very back when rearranging in the cupboard. It was one of my starter rums or for mixing for CubaLibre. With my current taste, I can no longer understand how I could have liked it. Well, many have probably gone through this hard school. Will now have to use it for sweetening espresso and baking. Adjusted downwards a little.
Review by LukaŽiga
7,8:Nose as usual with Dictador, opens with a good glassful of coffee. But to stop there would be to state the obvious: this coffee is flavored with vanilla and sweetened with a dollop of molasses. Black molasses has a distinct licorice aroma. The nose is quite dry, with walnuts, pecans and almonds. These nuts are caught in a hard caramel, and we can now easily visualize a slab of crunchy nougatine. Licorice continues to lead the way on aeration, bathed in tobacco and coffee smoke. Caramelized nuts like pecan are still present, forming a powder mixed with spices. In this definitely very dark register, bread and wood are toasted. 7,3:On the palate, a small, sweet bubble of yellow fruit bursts out and spills over first. This sweetness compensates for the darker side of the nose, which logically translates here into a peppery, even spicy harshness. This continues with salted brown caramel, lots of coffee and a spicy woodiness where coriander adds a little freshness and whimsy. Molasses and licorice complete the deep, dark picture. 7,2:The last lingering notes on the palate are dry walnuts, caramelized pecans and maple syrup. Well, shortly, coffeeeeee time 😄. Edit:10.4.26, used in Midnight vanilla espresso..
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 Martin Augustin
Karamell, Vanille, Kaffee und etwas rostiges sind zu erriechen. Geschmacklich ist er dann sehr süß mit Kaffee, Schokolade, Honig und sehr viel Walnuss. Der Abgang ist sehr kurz mit viel Schokolade. Für meinen Geschmack zu künstlich und viel zu süß.
Review by Rumpalumpa
Im Vergleich zu der 12 jährigen Abfüllung sind die Aromen hier viel sanfter und unspektakulärer. Die markanten Maggi, Honi, Malz Aromen sind viel schwächer, dafür holziger und röstiger und gehen mehr in Richtung Schokolade und Kaffee
Review by pavlix vipax
Vo vôni dosť liehove, v chuti aj mierna sladkosť ale dosť stipe, napriek tomu dospelackejsie pitie
Review by Galli33
A good oily rum! Very lovely smell and taste. I like it a lot
Review by Johannes
Quite thin, somewhat bitter, but still probably sweetened, coffee notes, some wood and tobacco. Short finish. Perhaps ok for beginners.
Review by Lucas Scrivener
Very rich, round rum of the darkest molasses. Fantastic end of night rum
Review by Tim
Dictador: a dishonest rum brand? An interview with Dictador's master blender (http://consulhonorariostuttgart.de/?q=de/destileria_colombiana) explains a lot. The fact is that Dictador has never used the solera system and buys in some of the light alcohols for its rums. The alcohol content may also not be correct, which conceals a small amount of added sugar. The brand's marketing is very good, even though I have never seen Dictador in a supermarket. Overall, not the best impression. This rum comes with a lot of roasted aromas of coffee and chocolate, with a perceptible alcohol note. The rum is good in principle, but lacks complexity. Does the price match the quality? Probably not.
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 Rumbaer
Sehr geschmackvoller Rum, abseits von "üblichen" Fruchtnoten, Sherry etc. Der Geruch direkt nach Kaffee, Rauch und Tabak. Auch im Geschmack dann schöne Kaffeenoten mit Tabak, etwas Karamell und hinten raus Zartbitterschokolade. Im Nachgeschmack bleibt der Kaffee etwas länger im Mund.
Review by Vincent D
Un peu plus fondu que le 16 mais ça reste très lambda avec trop de sucre et un café omniprésent qui ne laisse pas beaucoup de place. Le rapport qualité-prix n'est pour moi pas au rendez-vous. Trop peu de différence avec le 12 ans
Review by JonasTh
Vanille. Lekkerder dan 12y
Review by abaker-rum
Maple, maple, maple. For both the 12 year and the 20 year, it smells like a bottle of alcoholic maple syrup. The 20 year is less sweet in taste and a more well rounded rum. Maple is carried into the taste but it is enjoyable with spice and vanilla from the barrel coming through.
Review by Gregor
A few percent too little. Revenge flat and quickly gone
Review by Juris Sumskis
Very pleasant smell of toffee, caramel. Easy to drink neat.
Review by heckto🥃
In der Nase dominieren Kaffee, Holz und Karamell. Am Gaumen ist Schokolade, Kaffee und etwas Lakritz zu schmecken. Eine rauchige Note ist allgegenwärtig. Pur ganz OK, als Mixgetränk super. Fazit: Ein guter Süßrum mit Kaffeearoma.
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 Martin Spooner
The aroma is pleasant and slightly sweet, raising high expectations for the rum. However, these are somewhat muted for me when it comes to the taste, bringing it back down to earth. It simply lacks complexity. The finish is also a bit weak. All in all, pleasant to drink but rather underwhelming. Little character.
Review by Oscar Fernandez
Lo tenia hace años y lo abri en mi cumpleaños. Un Ron diferente, el cafe se hace sentir, los que son amantes del buen cafe, estan de parabienes con este Ron. Esperaba mas, la botella demore en terminarla, cosa rara para un 20 años. Punto a destacar, la presentación es preciosa y la botella de las mas lindas q tuve en manos. Salu! 🥃
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 crazyforgoodbooze
Clearly drier, spicier, and woodier, oloroso sherry cask in the background, tobacco, cocoa, strong coffee, and a bit of orange peel. A well-rounded thing!
Review by waterglass11
Long finish. Starts sweet and spiced, goes to caramel, and finishes butterscotch. Super tasty sipper!
Review by Henry Davies
It’s on the sweeter side, so indicative of some dosage. A bit one dimensional given the price and clearly not a true 20 year old being Solera aged. A lot of candied sweeter notes on the nose but more muted in the mouth and a spice somewhat short finish, some alcoholic intensity. Spanish style sweeter rum but a bit more grown up than a Diplimatico ER
Review by Philip M. 🇧🇪
15/05/2026: Advent calender: Le Monde des Rhums 2025. Apparently, this Dictator is made with sugar cane honey which is rather rare. It's very watery and thin, but the flavours that are there are okay. It's dark, woody, coffee like, but on the sweet side.
Review by Jerzy Stępień
Kawowy, delikatnie słodki
Review by rum_sk
Direct comparison with its 12 YO version just proved my point that they are very similar. 20YO being almost identical in taste but is just tastes milder and sweeter than 12 YO. Taking 3 points down. Walnuts, vanilla and coffee all around. Not sure whether it is worthy of an extra cost of 20 yo against 12. But this one is a bit more sweet which might be appealing to some.
Review by Anonymous
Sokan dicsérték számomra mégis picit csalódás. A 12 ebédhez képest mindenképp egy letisztultabb, lágyabb, nem túl édes hagyományos rum íz jegyeket visszaado ital. De valami mintha mégis hiányozna. Ebben az ár kategóriában többet vártam mert a vetélytársai ennyiért többet kínálnak. Félre ne értsd egy abszolút finom, lágy rum, ha csak ezt iszom lehet nem érzek hiányt de másokkal együtt kóstolva picit alulmarad. Hiányzik számomra az enyhe gyümölcsösség, valami könnyed extra íz ami kiemelje, de amúgy abszolút ajánlott kategória :)
Review by Stefan Lindner
Bisher eine meiner Lieblingsflaschen
Review by Werner10
Compared to the 12 this one is more rounded. Good value for money. And instead of coffee i'm getting more of a dark chocolate taste. Very nice.
Review by Business Liner Ralf
Bin überrascht wie wenig süss der Rum schmeckt. Zuckerzusatz? Habe ich nicht so empfunden.
Review by Leslie Haigh
bit sweet but easy to drink
Review by EnjoyLife89
Zuerst steigt Vanille aus dem Glas. Getragen von einer deutlichen Kaffeenote. Nelke. Karamell. Leder Würzig auf der Zunge, Tabak, Vanille, leicht bitter Im Abgang etwas bitterer werdend. Tabak. Vielleicht eine Spur Nuss. Man schmeckt das Fass. Insgesamt ein recht unkomplizierter Zeitgenosse. Ganz hinten raus bleibt am Schluss eine ganz leichte Frucht.
Review by Peter Sjoroos
Kvalitetsrom som har nästan allt, men saknar det där lilla, lilla extra. Hade mått bra av att komma som +45% vilket troligen gett den extra djup och längd. Men en riktigt bra "standardrom" som bör finnas på alla romsamlares hyllor. Speciellt om du gillar kaffe, då är denna ett måste!
Review by Schorgelorsch
Lecker. Da geht es nicht um besonders komplexe Aromen oder unglaubliche Tiefe. Der schmeckt einfach als schöner Kaffeereferenzpunkt nach einem guten Essen oder Begleiter eines entspannten Abend mit Freunden
Review by Matej
Very nice rum even for this price. Aroma itself is one of the best I have ever had the chance to smell. It is very pleasant aroma which is combination of sweet notes, chocolate, wood, caramel, vanilla and smoke. I think this would be great rum for Christmas eveninigs. It is very smooth, very sweet, woody, smoky flavor with admixture of chocolate. Finish is little bit spicy, sweet and even alcoholic flavor is on good range. And yes the color is beautiful. I would give this rum much more score. If this were my first ever rum, it would be almost perfect run.
Review by Alexandre Rolin
Du mal à être convaincu. J'ai l'impression qu'il est un peu artificiel avec du bois brûlé, du sucre et du café. Pas le type de rhum que j'apprécie déguster.
Review by Michael Janek
20.5.2025 Havana Brno ve vůni nijak vyrazny, malinko čokoláda v chuti je velmi příjemný, hladký, cokoladovy, asi i káva, na závěr trošičku zaštípe
Review by sebasomma79
To me, it’s just a rush of licorice. Not being a licorice lover, i struggled a little bit. Not so long. I guess a lil overpriced.
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Expert review by Zucker und Zeste
Woody and spicy with coffee and chocolate notes. Quite dry with little fruit.
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Auction results 30 € – 97 €
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Details about Dictador 20 Years
A Pot & Column Still Rum from Colombia, distilled by Destilería Colombiana, at 40%.
Community purchases
553 bottles logged by 523 collectors.
A drinker's rum.
40% opened, 80 emptied and repurchased.
What does Dictador 20 Years cost?
Community paid 40–74 €.
Current best price: 47.20 € – within the typical community range.
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+8 purchases in the last 3 months.
Added to collections, last 12 months — dark bars are the last 3.
553 purchased · 376 tasted · 225 wishlist · as of
About the Destilería Colombiana distillery
The Destilería Colombiana distillery is located in Colombia. Rums from Destilería Colombiana have been reviewed 1,922 times with an average of 7.5/10.
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