Patridom 12 Selección Exclusiva Spirit Drink is a premium rum-based spirit from the Dominican Republic, produced by Alcoholes Finos Dominicanos. The producer processes sugar cane grown on its own estates, thereby ensuring that the raw materials used originate entirely from the Dominican Republic. The spirit is based on a distillate produced from sugar cane molasses. The Selección Exclusiva is part of Patridom’s core range, comprising four bottlings, and is characterised in particular by its long tropical cask ageing. As the product is explicitly described as a ‘spirit drink’, it should not be listed in the shop as rum, but consistently as a rum-based spirit.


The Patridom Selección Exclusiva is made using distillates that have matured for between six and twelve years in the tropical climate of the Dominican Republic. Both American oak and French oak casks are used in the process. The combination of different ages and types of oak gives the bottling its multi-layered character. At 40% in the 0.7 l bottle, this rum-based spirit combines Dominican sugar cane, molasses and several years’ tropical cask ageing. The age statement ‘12’ in the product name therefore refers to a blend of components aged for between six and twelve years and should not be understood as meaning that all components have been aged for a full twelve years.