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Barceló Añejo Rum
Review: Barceló Añejo Rum (70/100)
a review by Chip Dykstra (AKA Arctic Wolf)
Posted July 25, 2012
Ron Barceló was founded in 1930 under the name Barceló & Co in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. The rum brand quickly grew in popularity growing into one of the largest in the Dominican, and the brand is now exported world-wide to over 20 countries.
The Company advertises five indicators of quality which govern their production:
- Only the finest sugar cane produced in the Dominican Republic is used.
- All of our rums age in oak barrels from Kentucky that have been used to age Bourbon Whisky.
- Constant research efforts by our Master Blenders lead us to the best possible blends.
- Achieving a perfect combination of body character, great performance and exquisite bouquet.
- Using the industry's leading distilling technology with the age-old artisan knowledge of our local experts, heirs to a long tradition of excellence in rum production.
Ron Barceló rum is distilled from fermented molasses, and bottled at 37.5 % alcohol by volume.
I reviewed this rum almost three years ago, and recently acquired a new bottle. I decided to go back and see if the rum, or my perception of it had improved after three years.
The RonBarceló Añejo bottle is shown to the left. I borrowed the picture (with permission) from the Lance Surujbally of Liquorature as the label on my bottle was messed up with rum stains from a leaky bottle. I hate bottles that leak, and the culprit in this case was the metallic screw top which had lost its seal somewhere between the Dominican Republic and my rum shelf.
Other than metallic cap that leaked, the presentation for this rum is fine.
Once poured into the glass, the rum is the colour of light brown sugar. I gave my glass a quick tilt and a slow swirl, and I noticed very skinny legs which moved down the sides of the glass. The initial aroma is a bit thin and a bit harsh with what I call burnt brown sugar notes combined with a 'medicinal' element. Frankly it appears to be quite rough.
When I allow the glass to breathe some of that initial harshness evaporates into the breezes, and I detect some notes of caramel, banana peel, and tobacco. However, the burnt brown sugar notes still tend to dominate the rum.
I guess I should start out by admitting that I regret opening this bottle of rum. Frankly it tastes medicinal, bitter and metallic. The advertising says the younger rums in the blend give it a sharp taste, I believe that is an understatement. The mix of flavours include molasses, caramel, burnt brown sugar, banana and orange peel. However all of this is tainted by that bitter medicinal quality the rum possesses.
When you mix the rum with coke, things improve, but I would be lying if I said the rum excited me.
The finish is unsatisfying. The rum is too thin to provide any length at all, and what is left upon the palate is just some vague reminders that this was not a good experience. Although, I can now taste some spices (hints of vanilla and baking spices) that belong, as well as a more pleasing sugary note, I also am left with a metallic bitter aftertaste and the vague feeling that I just swallowed some sugar-coated but nevertheless unpleasant, medicine.
The AFTERBURN (7/10)
Unfortunately the Barcelo Anejo Rum was not a pleasant experience for me. As a sipper I found the spirit wanting in many ways, and as a mixer, it seems mediocre at best. Strangely enough, I think the rum has improved since I tasted it three years ago.
If you are interested in comparing more scores, here is a link to my other published Rum Reviews.
You may (loosely) interpret the scores as follows.
0-25 A spirit with a rating this low would actually kill you.
26-49 Depending upon your fortitude you might actually survive this.
50 -59 You are safe to drink this…but you shouldn't.
60-69 Substandard swill which you may offer to people you do not want to see again.
70-74 Now we have a fair mixing rum or whisky. Accept this but make sure it is mixed into a cocktail.
75-79 You may begin to serve this to friends, again probably still cocktail territory.
80-84 We begin to enjoy this spirit neat or on the rocks. (I will still primarily mix cocktails)
85-89 Excellent for sipping or for mixing!
90-94 Definitely a primary sipping spirit, in fact you may want to hoard this for yourself.
95-97.5 The Cream of the Crop
98+ I haven't met this bottle yet…but I want to.
Very loosely we may put my scores into terms that you may be familiar with on a Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal scale as follows:
70 – 79.5 Bronze Medal (Recommended only as a mixer)
80 – 89.5 Silver Medal (Recommended for sipping and or a high quality mixer)
90 – 95 Gold Medal (Highly recommended for sipping and for sublime cocktails.)
95.5+ Platinum Award (Highest Recommendation)
One Response to "Barceló Añejo Rum"
November 12, 2013 at 11:22 pm
I completely agree. I prefer the regular Ron Barcelo to the Anejo by a long shot.


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"To produce good crops farmers must have good weather, water and fertilizer — but the common denominator is energy," says former USDA Under-Secretary of Agriculture Gale Buchanan.
Speaking at the recent annual meeting of the Southern Peanut Growers Association, Buchanan says a key to solving energy problems and invigorating agriculture in the U.S. and worldwide is to invest billions, not millions, into meaningful research efforts that could change the very fiber of energy production and consumption worldwide.
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A July issue of the New York Times magazine Smart Money included a nine-page series of article titled, "The Return of Fossil Fuel."
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• World population will reach 9 billion people before 2050. With world population topping seven billion last October, agriculture is now hard-pressed to meet the demand for calories worldwide. By 2050 farmers will be charged with feeding two extra countries the size of India, or about 2 billion more people.
• The world's appetite for oil will grow faster in the future than it has grown in the past. For example 50 million new cars are added globally each year. To get a look at the future demand for gas for cars, China now produces more new cars each year than the U.S. produces.
• U.S. energy supply is not sustainable. The United States represents about five percent of the world's population, but consumes more than a fourth of the oil (about 20 million barrels of oil per year) used worldwide. The most rapid growing economies in the world, like China and India are also the fastest growing in demand for oil — and they will have the money to buy it in the future.
• The Age of Oil will be brief in terms of the history of the world It took 125 years for the world to consume a trillion barrels of oil. In less than 30 years the U.S. will use a trillion barrels of oil — at the current pace of consumption. Unless many current energy realities change, we will use the next trillion barrels of oil in a much shorter time frame.
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• The rate of discovery of oil in the U.S. peaked in the 1930s and in the world it peaked in the 1960s. The 10 billion barrels of oil recently discovered in North Dakota and Montana currently represents only a 130 day supply for the world or 10 billion barrels.
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• Not only has the discovery of oil peaked, but remaining supplies are located in hard to get to places. Future oil won't come nearly as easily as puncturing a hole in the Earth's surface and capturing oil as it spews from the ground.
• This oil in hard to find places will require much more water and energy to capture and process. Oil in shale or tied up in tar sands will be difficult to extract and expensive to get in a usable form.
• All forms of natural energy are finite. "Think of it terms of your bank account — you have to write bigger and bigger checks, but you can't add any money to your account," Buchanan explains.
Buchanan's facts are hard to dispute, though he admits there are many who do. The bigger question, he says, is what do these facts mean?
"For my generation and probably for my children's generation, these facts don't mean much in terms of our everyday life. Certainly, our current supply of oil and coal will be abundant in my lifetime and likely throughout much or all of my children's lifetime," he says.
Future generations are another story entirely, he adds. "We are spending the energy inheritance of future generations at a frightening rate," Buchanan says.
He contends world political leaders and business leaders don't seem to be looking at the obvious answers. "We spend money for energy in the trillions of dollars, yet we invest in finding new and sustainable energy sources in millions of dollars," Buchanan says.
"To meet the challenges of energy, which directly impacts on our ability to produce food for a growing world population, and to preserve a finite supply of water, we must invest more heavily in finding more sustainable and affordable energy sources," he adds.
Highly respected organizations, like the New York Times, publish stories and produce white papers about the plentiful supply of coal and natural gas and of new discoveries of oil supplies. They paint a very rosy picture of our current energy supply, leading many people in powerful places to use the old adage — if it ain't broke, don't fix it, Buchanan says.
"I've never liked that phrase — if it ain't broke, don't fix it. I contend, if it ain't broke, use the time it's fixed to make it better. Making energy better is going to be critical to the future of world agriculture and to the people of world. "Fossil fuel has given us the time we as a planet needed to fix our energy problem. So far the attempts to fix energy haven't worked, and in fact have probably done just the opposite.
"Stimulating the use of alternative energy with federal dollars is wonderful for the folks receiving those dollars, but it hardly addresses the problem. The development of competitive alternative fuels, with the emphasis on competitive, people will use them," he says.
"Focusing research on developing competitive, affordable alternative biofuels is what we should be doing and this is not what we have been doing."


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A National Olympic Committee (NOC) is a national constituent of the worldwide Olympic movement. Subject to the controls of the International Olympic Committee, NOCs are responsible for organizing their people's participation in the Olympic Games. They may nominate cities within their respective areas as candidates for future Olympic Games. NOCs also promote the development of athletes and training of coaches and officials at a national level within their geographies.
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|Newest NOC
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|Egypt (1910)
|Eritrea (1999)
|Pan American Sports Organization
|United States (1894)
| Dominica (1993)
Saint Kitts and Nevis (1993)
Saint Lucia (1993)
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|Japan, Philippines (1912)
|Timor-Leste (2003)
|European Olympic Committees
|France (1894)
|Montenegro (2007)
|Oceania National Olympic Committees
|Australia (1895)
|Tuvalu (2007)
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Below is a chronological list of the 204 NOCs recognized by the International Olympic Committee, since its foundation in 1894. Many of these committees were founded many years before their official recognition, while others were immediately accepted after being founded. Former states, nowadays non-existent (e.g. Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Netherlands Antilles, etc.), are not listed, only the current states derived from them (f.i. the Czech Olympic Committee representing Bohemia was created and recognized in 1899 already, later transformed into the Czechoslovak Olympic Committee and after the split of Czechoslovakia recognized again in 1993).
Unrecognized National Olympic CommitteesEdit
The Macau Sports and Olympic Committee was founded in 1987 and has attempted to enroll to the IOC since its foundation, but is still not officially recognized and thus no athlete has participated in the Olympic Games under the name "Macau, China". It has, however, participated in the Paralympic Games. The Faroe Islands have a recognised National Paralympic Committee.[6]
Other existing countries/regions with unrecognized Olympic committees: Catalonia,[7] Gibraltar,[8] French Polynesia,[9] Niue,[10] Kosovo,[11] Somaliland,[12] New Caledonia,[13] Kurdistan,[14][15] Northern Cyprus,[16] Abkhazia,[17], Native Americans,[18][19] the Northern Mariana Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat, and Turks & Caicos Islands.[20]
See alsoEdit
- National Olympic Committees. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2008-01-21.
- Association of National Olympic Committees website
- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/8632832/London-2012-Olympics-South-Sudan-can-compete-at-Games.html London 2012 Olympics: South Sudan 'can compete at Games'] The Telegraph, 12 July 2011</
- ↑ Executive Board concludes first meeting of the new year. olympic.org ("Official website of the Olympic movement") (13 January 2011). Retrieved on 13 January 2011.
- ↑ Curtain comes down on 123rd IOC Session.
- ↑ The OCA includes 45 NOCs; the Macau Sports and Olympic Committee is not recognized by the IOC and Macau does not compete at the Olympic Games.
- ↑ The Olympic Committee of Serbia
- ↑ Ítróttasamband Føroya | Just another WordPress weblog. Isf.fo. Retrieved on 2010-08-16.
- ↑ Freedom for Catalonia?: Catalan Nationalism, Spanish Identity and the Barcelona Olympic Games (Cambridge Cultural Social Sciences) (9780521586153): John Hargreaves: Books. Amazon.com. Retrieved on 2009-10-24.
- ↑ www.andalucia.com. www.andalucia.com. Retrieved on 2012-06-20.
- ↑ Article: Miss Tahiti 2003 stripped of her title. | AccessMyLibrary - Promoting library advocacy. AccessMyLibrary (2005-06-03). Retrieved on 2009-10-24.
- ↑ SportingPulse Homepage for Niue Island Sports Association and National Olympic Committee. Sportingpulse.com. Retrieved on 2009-10-24.
- ↑ Olympic Committee of Kosovo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. En.wikipedia.org (2009-08-29). Retrieved on 2009-10-24.
- ↑ Website ka wasaaradda Dhalinyaradda Iyo Ciyaaraha Somaliland - Homepage. Somalilandolympics.org (2010-01-18). Retrieved on 2010-08-16.
- ↑ New Caledonia National Olympic Committee. SportingPulse. Retrieved on 2010-08-16.
- ↑ Dispaly Article. Kurdishglobe.net (2010-01-16). Retrieved on 2010-08-16.
- ↑ http://www.sportcountries.org/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/conference_2008/INSCRITS_DEFINITIU.pdf
- ↑ Embargo! Time to end the unjust embargoes against the people of North Cyprus. Embargoed.org. Retrieved on 2010-08-16.
- ↑ The ABC Republic: Abkhazia Attempts to Invent Itself - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. Spiegel.de. Retrieved on 2009-10-24.
- ↑ Native Americans seek recognition. Nativevoices.org (2006-02-27). Retrieved on 2010-08-16.
- ↑ Jim Thorpe's Sons Bolster Native American Olympic Dream : Fri, 10 Jul 2009 : eNewsChannels. Enewschannels.com (2009-07-10). Retrieved on 2010-08-16.
- ↑ CANOC Members. canoc.net. Retrieved on 2010-08-16.


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