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Rum Journal: The Rum Awards 2015

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - November 6, 2015 - 12:10 am
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Best White Rum: Bacardi Facundo Neo

Two years ago, the new Facundo Collection took the rum world by storm — the best rums Bacardi had produced in decades. And the company’s Exquisito took home Rum of the Year honors. We’re glad to see that the Facundo collection is still around, and the company’s Neo white rum (actually a blend of aged rums that’s then charcoal-filtered) is, while expensive, a new kind of standard for great white rum: smooth, elegant, crisp. It passes the most important test of white rum with flying colors: you can sip it.


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