Toucan Spicy n°4 is based on white rum from the same Guyanese brand Toucan. This is left to age for a year in a barrel that has previously “housed” Armagnac (Bas Armagnac to be precise), with a “homemade” woody infusion.
Rare enough for a spiced rum: no added sugar.
Nico's tasting notes
In brief: cane - sweet spices - woody - mellow - melting
The nose opens up to a lovely, rather interesting rhum agricole, with the heavy, deep aromas found in rums that have benefited from good fermentation. A fine cane eau-de-vie, sweet, with light citrus. Mild spices begin to sparkle in the distance.
Aeration brings out a toasty woodiness that supports a cane juice with accents of tender artichoke. You'll want to chew this mellow cane, subtly tinged with spicy, exotic wood.
The palate is very smooth, with a mellow, candied cane that keeps melting into milk chocolate, toffee or even marron glacé.
It's in the finish that the woodiness returns in a very gentle way, with the cane having been greedy and elegant from the start.
"This rum offers a beautiful balance that will highlight the cane in different ways, without ever overshadowing it..."
Dominique COUPRIE
Not tasted yet
Eric
Not too bad
Laurent Remiche
Good, spicy simpa rum
Pierrick
Great product but already knew about it.