Product Description
THE BARTENDER’S BOOK
Captain Morgan Sliced Apple Spiced Rum is a crisp and refreshing take on the brand’s classic spiced rum, infused with the sweet, juicy flavor of fresh-sliced apples and a subtle hint of ginger. Bottled at 35 % ABV, it delivers a balanced blend of spiced rum warmth and bright apple tartness, making it enjoyable neat, on ice, or as a bold base for cocktails like the Apple Mule. Ideal for everyday gatherings, this gluten-free rum offers around 100 calories per 1.5-ounce pour and embodies the adventurous spirit of celebrating with friends.
TASTING NOTES
Taste is more than flavor. It is the full conversation between glass, nose, mouth, and memory. Here, we break each spirit into four parts:
AROMA
Sweet apple, apple peel, vanilla, cinnamon, brown sugar, soft rum, and mild spice.
PALATE
Juicy apple, spiced rum, caramel, vanilla, ginger, cinnamon, light molasses, and soft brown sugar.
FINISH
Smooth, sweet, and apple-led, with lingering spice, vanilla, ginger, and mild rum warmth.
TEXTURE
Light-to-medium bodied, smooth, and slightly sweet, with less weight than darker aged rum.
Captain Morgan Sliced Apple delivers a clear flavored-rum profile built around sweet apple, apple peel, vanilla, caramel, ginger, cinnamon, brown sugar, and soft rum warmth. It is fruit-forward and accessible, with spice adding structure to the sweetness.
STRAIGHT TALK
Captain Morgan Sliced Apple is not a serious aged-rum study. It is a flavored spiced rum with one clear idea: apple plus Captain Morgan-style spice. The apple note is obvious, the sweetness is forward, and the ginger-spice edge helps keep it from becoming completely flat. The limitation is depth. Anyone looking for dry oak, molasses complexity, or traditional rum character will find it commercial and simple.
THE MIX
For culinary-pairing context, Captain Morgan Sliced Apple works with apple, pear, caramel, vanilla, cinnamon, ginger, clove, brown sugar, maple, toasted pecan, walnut, roasted pork, barbecue glaze, baked apple desserts, bread pudding, and sharp cheddar.
The Jazz Chef angle: this is spiced rum in an apple-orchard jacket, sweet apple up front, vanilla and caramel underneath, ginger and cinnamon keeping the beat.
A DISTILLER’S TALE
Captain Morgan is owned by Diageo and named after Henry Morgan, the seventeenth-century Welsh privateer. Sliced Apple was introduced in 2020 as a flavored extension of the Captain Morgan spiced-rum line. Trade reporting from the launch described it as a 35% ABV apple-flavored spiced rum released in the U.S. and Canada.
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