Malibu Black Coconut Rum Review

Tasting Notes: Malibu Black brings natural rum flavor, with a bit of mild brown sugar with a secondary flavor of coconut. A bit more potency in the alcohol but nothing too extreme as to really be a turn off.

The first thing you’ll find in Malibu Black is rum–real flavor of rum. Once you get over the fact that this Malibu product isn’t about super-sweet candy coconut you can begin to go through the flavor wheel from brown sugars and mildly sweet coconut in the background.

While you will spend a bit more for Malibu Black, you have a product that can stand on its own as a multi-dimensional tasting experience. It’s not as sweet in sugars and oaks as some black rum but it’s also not as extreme in sweetness as the original. However, I find the original Malibu as more of a one-trick poney of coconut explosiveness. The authentic coconut is distracted by the sugar-infusion where Black brings back some rum heritage and the complexities that go with that experience.

I would put Malibu Black well above its original product in overall taste experience. This may be something to give Cruzan a challenge!

 

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    Kris Deagle
    December 15, 2012 at 9:20 am

    I have a question. For someone who has never had scotch before, what would you recommend trying as an entry into the world of scotch?

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