Best Gold Rum: Don Q Gold
This is a tough category to judge, simply because the area between young white rums and older aged rums is often filled with a motley crue of rums. But Don Q has long been making some of the Caribbean’s best rums in this category, and the Don Q Gold is no exception. While, like most gold rums, it’s best off in a cocktail, this is a rum with a honey-sweet aroma and a caramel-brown sugar flavor profile that makes it quite drinkable on its own.
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