El Dorado

A aquarj Tiki Socialite SF bay area, CA Joined: Apr 02, 2002 Posts: 1125	A aquarj Posted posted on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 6:21 PM Just a guess - it's probably similar but not the same. Kinda like Smuggler's Cove has their own house demerara from El Dorado, which is aged 12 years (I think?), but different from the regular El Dorado 12yr. I think Martin from SC went there and blended to his own taste. I like to go back and read the post about El Dorado on A Mountain of Crushed Ice once in a while for reference. I still don't really understand the whole relationship between El Dorado and DDL, but anyway they have all those old stills - Enmore, Uitvlugt, Port Morant, etc. - and the magic is partly in the blending. That's why you get other blenders like XM Banks, and even Lemon Hart for that matter, who use rums from those stills. (At least I think that's how it works - someone straighten me out if I've got it wrong) Anyway, maybe the Cuba Libre restaurant rums from El Dorado are the same kind of thing - specially blended rums from those stills. BTW, here's their website, with the Buick on the front page (one of my favorite chrome smiles from that era). If you click around, you can find their listing of the range of Cuba Libre rums, with ages that match the El Dorado line. I have the spiced rum... -Randy

Just a guess - it's probably similar but not the same. Kinda like Smuggler's Cove has their own house demerara from El Dorado, which is aged 12 years (I think?), but different from the regular El Dorado 12yr. I think Martin from SC went there and blended to his own taste.

I like to go back and read the post about El Dorado on A Mountain of Crushed Ice once in a while for reference. I still don't really understand the whole relationship between El Dorado and DDL, but anyway they have all those old stills - Enmore, Uitvlugt, Port Morant, etc. - and the magic is partly in the blending. That's why you get other blenders like XM Banks, and even Lemon Hart for that matter, who use rums from those stills. (At least I think that's how it works - someone straighten me out if I've got it wrong)

Anyway, maybe the Cuba Libre restaurant rums from El Dorado are the same kind of thing - specially blended rums from those stills. BTW, here's their website, with the Buick on the front page (one of my favorite chrome smiles from that era). If you click around, you can find their listing of the range of Cuba Libre rums, with ages that match the El Dorado line. I have the spiced rum...

-Randy

Post #625466 by aquarj on Fri, Feb 17, 2012 6:21 PM