Taste
Aged in whisky and bourbon casks, for a minimum of 21 years. Golden copper-colored rum with a nose of mocha, toffee, tobacco, and dark spices. The mouth is velvety
smooth with a full body of tropical fruits, coffee, leather, and rich toffee.

Aged in the intense heat and humidity of Guyana, this 21 yr old Demerara rum drinks like an even older Cognac. From a lush tropical fruit nose packed with spice, honey and brown sugar, to a full bodied and oak driven palate, El Dorado 21 year Special Reserve is silky and mellow. 40 ABV. Begins with rums from the EHP still, the Versailles single wooden pot stilland the Albion Savalle still.

About El Dorado
The evolution of rum distillation dates back nearly 400 years. Upon arriving in Guyana in 1498, Christopher Columbus began planting the soon-to-be cash crop, sugar cane. 150 years later the Dutch came to Guyana and established the first settlements of Essequibo and Berbice, introducing the cultivation of sugar cane along the coastal plain and the banks of the great rivers.

At its peak Guyana was home to over 300 sugar estates with distilleries, each producing their own signature rums. Over the years these 300 sugar estates were whittled down to one lone estate and distillery, Plantation Diamond, located on the east bank of the Demerara River.

Today, Demerara Distillers Ltd. (the parent company of El Dorado Rum and Diamond Reserve) operates that last remaining distillery. Plantation Diamond houses 8 stills, some of which are the oldest operating stills in the world. These stills are all completely different in composition (wood, double wood, copper, etc) and size, all yielding entirely different distillates that lead to the complexity that is El Dorado Rum.

El Dorado boasts a full line of premium rum, with the El Dorado 15yr Special Reserve being internationally recognized as the benchmark in its category. Similarly to cognac, the age on a bottle of El Dorado rum indicates the youngest spirit found in the bottle. From the 3yr, charcoal filtered white rum (best white rum ever!!!), mocha and toffeed decadence of the 21yr Special Reserve, to the exotic Caribbean aromas of the Spiced Rum, there is a rum for everyone!

For the line of unaged/ lightly aged rums (white, dark, spiced, and 151), please see the brand Diamond Reserve.