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| Hello, that is one among our (nearly) day by day tastings. Santé! |
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July 3, 2022
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A number of rums for our pals
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Bellevue 24 yo 1998/2022 (54.4%, The Whisky Jury, Guadeloupe, refill barrel, cask #19, 237 bottles) 
There is a wee flag with fleur-de-lis on the label, what’s that, Quebec? Keep in mind there is a Bellevue in Guadeloupe and a Bellevue on Marie-Galante, whereas Marie-Galante is administratively a part of Guadeloupe. Did you get all of it? Color: deep gold. Nostril: kerosene and olive oil, plus brake pad mud and dried mackerels, that is what I am getting. Additionally black-olive focaccia. It is true that Bellevue can get fairly excessive. With water: beautiful heady flowers, wisteria, jasmine, honeysuckle… Plus this sense of getting simply opened the Kardashians’ personal family-pack of liquorice allsorts. Mouth (neat): completely grand Bellevue, stuffed with menthol, liquorice, salt, rotting bananas, acetone and polish. What does the individuals need? With water: extra, rather more salty liquorice, Scandinavian-style. End: very lengthy, salty and stuffed with liquorice, with some form of smoke within the aftertaste. Juniper wooden? Additionally blood oranges and pineapples. Feedback: positive this wee Bellevue would not go in for subtleties, however must you be a member of the Liquorice Maniacs, you will simply want this bottle. Adore it whereas frankly, these 24 years do not actually really feel. Hurray.
SGP:652 – 90 factors. |
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Caroni 1999/2022 ‘Limbo’ (63.7%, Jack Tar, Trinidad, cask #186, 217 bottles)
Extra heavy Caroni from these stashes that, in keeping with their zealous promoters, ought to have gone extinct across the yr 2015. Proper, like Port Ellen or pink diamonds. Color: greenish amber. Nostril: bone-dry leather-based, tobacco, spent engine oil, porcinis and truffles, heating oil, fern and moss, lapsang souchong and simply diesel oil. The very excessive power could masks all the remainder. With water: a Saturday afternoon at Ikea’s, that is great on the nostril. Glues, woods, varnishes, aquavit and fatty meatballs. So long as we’re avoiding something even remotely linked to the band ‘Abba’, we’re positive. Mouth (neat): high-power glue, ammonia, liquorice extracts and certainly diesel oil. Given the present costs for diesel oil, I believe we’ll begin to chorus from quoting that too usually. Fantastic varnishness right here. With water: carbon, olives, peppers, liquorice and wooden dusts. End: identical, plus tar. Feedback: watch your pipette, it would not totally love water. Deliver it all the way down to 55, and basta cosi.
SGP:463 – 91 factors. |
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Caroni 1997/2021 ‘La Lune’ (61.3%, Jack Tar, Trinidad, cask #84, 225 bottles) 
Yeah, I obtained it, that is a part of a ‘Cosmic Collection’. As you might know until you are in Missouri or Arkansas, la lune means the moon. Color: amber. Nostril: a a lot, a lot softer Caroni, with strawberries and nougat, then hay, gentle asparagus, bamboo shoots and palm coronary heart, after which simply white toasts. Whiffs of sentimental paprika. This feels very high-columny. With water: good caney smells, some shoe polish, some fresh-sawn plywood. Mouth (neat): extra motion than on the nostril, with huge salty varnishes and numerous spicy chutneys. Paprika is again, along with a variety of nutmeg and cinnamon. A wee glue-y aspect too. With water: good juice, pineapple liqueur, some oak extracts… End: lengthy. Feedback: my mistake, my huge mistake, I ought to have tried this La Lune earlier than the flabbergasting Limbo. Coz order is every part, is it not. Order and beer, as they’d say in Missouri or Arkansas.
SGP:551 – 87 factors. |
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Foursquare 14 yo 2007/2021 (62.2%, Whisky Picnic Bar, Barbados, bourbon barrel, cask #75, 274 bottles)
There’s some speaking about added worth that ought to stay within the nations of origin, and I am all for it. The one factor is that zillions of European-aged a.okay.a. early-landed ones are coming my manner and in your glass, they often simply shine. Color: full gold. Nostril: great rubber and maize bread, carbon, bicycle internal tube and barely overburnt breads and pancakes. With water: some gentle heaviness, would I say. I do know that is a wierd idea. Mouth (neat): extraordinarily good, sitting on the appropriate aspect of the fence as all the time. Some gentle, nearly weakish molecules plus some fatter, richer ones. Cane, banana, oils, lemons… With water: the pot-still rum doing its job. It is like Ardbeg or Lagavulin, you don’t want a lot to give you a palatable composition. End: medium, good, caney. Some marmalade. Feedback: beautiful. The lighter Caroni nonetheless beats it, however we’re actually shut. Oh and Res, non all the time simply Verba.
SGP:541 – 86 factors. |
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Uitvlugt 30 yo 1990/2021 (55%, RumSponge, Guyana)
Certainly, there’s a WhiskySponge, a CognacSponge, an ArmagnacSponge and a RumSponge. We hope there will likely be a MezcalSponge too, however we swear we’ll give up if we ever spot a GinSponge. Now, a 30 years previous Uitvlugt, that is obtained some model. No? Color: shiny gold. Nostril: ooh that is tireless and fairly Port-Ellenish, within the sense that you wouldn’t discover any indicators of over-aging. Shiny citrons, shiny inexperienced olives, shiny putties and paints, and shiny salty and mentholy, quasi-diesely embrocations. Simply wow. With water: extra brines of all types. That is glo-ri-ous. Mouth (neat): some immense and intense, superb, trumpeting saltiness. Extraordinary and worthy of a bespoke hymn by Georg-Friedrich Haendel or Henry Purcell. With water: large, extraordinarily assertive, nearly dictatorial salty, briney, varnishy, ultra-dry and simply completely coastal growth. End: nearly everlasting, on salts, liquorices and olives. Pepper within the aftertaste. Feedback: at 30 it isn’t complicated, it is even a bit easy or simplistic, however it’s carved like a Damascus sword. I do know what I am making an attempt to say. We-do-buy-if-we-can-find.
SGP:353 – 92 factors. |
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Final one for the street, whereas we’re in Guyana…
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Versailles 16 yo 2005/2021 (50.8%, The Whisky Cask Firm, Guyana, 156 bottles)
This was certainly distilled at Diamond Distillery, the place the Versailles wood nonetheless had been put in fairly some years earlier. Some beautiful writings about that at durhum.com, verify them out. Color: deep pink amber. Nostril: a gentler model after the Uitvlugt, with extra truffles, extra fudges and toffees, extra shortbreads and extra cappuccinos. With water: earths popping out, pinecones, charcoal, thyme bonbons… Are you aware thyme bonbons or pastilles? Wee whiffs of salty vegetable soups. Mouth (neat): caramels and toffees, with a bit pepper. No, somewhat a variety of pepper. With water: simply super-extra good, with some salted vegetable soups and bouillons. However unsure many individuals are coming to rum due to these soupy flavours, to be trustworthy, bananas and pineapples being fairly absent. End: medium, a bit sweeter, extra on ‘Kräuter’ sweets and liqueurs. Feedback: nice liquid, simply neglect about including any waters, whereas enthusiastic about ‘Ricola Schweizer Kräuterzucker Kräuterbonbons’. Certainly, that is only one single factor.
SGP:561 – 85 factors. |
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 Verify the index of all rums we have tasted up to now
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