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October 17, 2021
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Sunday vacation
here is one other little bag of (9) rums…
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This and that, from in every single place on the earth and with good religion.
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Ron Maja 8 yo ‘Anejo Autentico’ (40%, OB, El Salvador, +/-2020) 
Anejo autentico, does that imply that this child’s been aged for 8 years certainly and that that is no fantasy assertion? We have solely tried one Salvadorian rum thus far, a Cihuatan 15/2004 that I had discovered surprisingly good (WF 85). Color: gold. Nostril: whiffs of glue at fist, which is totally not disagreeable, then touches of Bakelite and ‘new LP’, with some dry molasses and a somewhat delicate oakiness. It’s a fairly gentle nostril, definitely not as creepily heady as different South-Individuals, quite the opposite. Mouth: gentle and sadly, somewhat sugary. Actually lots of molasses, caramel, vacationer toffee, sweet sugar, corn syrup… It is not that its very unhealthy, but it surely’s screaming for a ton of ice. End: medium, extra on Nescafé with lots of white sugar inside. Coca-Cola aged in oak. Feedback: social gathering rum, I’d suppose. Precisely not my definition of a malternative, however as we generally say, we have encountered a lot worse.
SGP:730 – 69 factors. |
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Mc Explorer 2009 (43.5%, Home of McCallum, Ruby Port casks end, +/-2019) 
This an undisclosed single property Caribbean rum executed (effectively, chosen and aged, I suppose) by some distinguished Scots, so I am asking you, what might go incorrect? Color: apricotty. Nostril: the Port shouldn’t be invading all corners of this little child, and there are nice notes of gasoline, fermenting cane juice, pineapples beginning to rot and simply liquorice. All that’s fairly good and already somewhat secondary. Mouth: no invasive sweetness, somewhat an earthy liquorice, at all times these notes of gasoline, overripe bananas and even touches of olives. Then molasses and low beans, in addition to a wee little bit of millionaire shortbread. End: medium, somewhat salty. All good. Extra liquorice and olives. Feedback: an attention-grabbing little rum, very effectively composed. I might quaff this with out a second thought.
SGP:642 – 84 factors. |
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New Grove 2009/2021 ‘Savoir Faire’ (48%, Navigate World Whisky, Mauritius, cask #414, 294 bottles) 
A brand new line of spirits for South-Africa, primarily based, because it seems, on LMDW’s pillars, so to talk. Not the worst title in spirits. Color: amber. Nostril: very fragrant, with beautiful whiffs of fresh-sawn hardwood, additionally eucalyptus, cigarettes, touches of earth, backyard peat, somewhat varnish, then somewhat milk chocolate and ripe bananas and pineapples. Teak oil, sauna… Mouth: holidays in your glass. It’s wealthy, piney, virtually terpenic, with a great deal of liquorice, then somewhat mango chutney and powerful honeys resembling chestnut. Touches of violet sweets and old-skool natural liqueurs. ‘Liqueur hygiénique’, as our ancestors used to name them. End: lengthy and somewhat tarry, with liquorice nonetheless working the present. Dry menthol within the aftertaste. Feedback: most likely certainly one of, if not the most effective Mauritian rum I might attempt till immediately. Excellent physique and liquoricy mouthfeel and a heavy-ish wooden that is been very effectively mastered.
SGP:661 – 87 factors. |
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Depaz ‘XO’ (45%, OB, Martinique, agricole, +/-2021)
This can be a ‘grande réserve’, so let’s deal with this wee agricole with respect. Depaz is a really outdated firm as they began making sugar as early as in 1635. The Distillery is situated on the ft of the Montagne Pelée, that volcano that erupted in 1902 and completely destroyed a metropolis of 30,000 souls. Color: deep amber. Nostril: oh so very agricole, so somewhat extra advanced than others but in addition rather less focussed (clearly), with orange zests and touches of camphor, comfortable liquorice, then damson tarte and flowers, peonies, heady wallflowers, plus some very apparent whiffs of menthol cigarettes in addition to echoes of latest tyres… Mouth: malty! Actually, and I’d suspect that comes from the wooden. Aside from that, some beautiful orange liqueurs, pine, apple juice, even cider and applejack, cane juice, tobacco… Having mentioned that I discover the physique a tiny tad skinny. As soon as once more, it’s advanced however it could have a tendency to enter too many instructions. Maybe…End: medium, somewhat earthier. Dry aftertaste, oak. Feedback: excellent for certain, it could simply lack the ‘compactness’ of, say a Neisson. No new Neissons presently within the bins, most sadly… boo-hoo-hoo…
SGP:451 – 85 factors. |
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WP Distillery 14 yo 2007/2021 (54.5%, Morisco Spirits, Jamaica) 
It’s fairly apparent that WP means ‘Welcome Pack’, no? Color: gold. Nostril: yeah smoked olives, crushed oysters, diesel oil, Tesla batteries (it’s a must to improve your tasting vocabulary, do not you) and anchovies stored in vanilla-ed brine. And why not, please? With water: similar. Great. Maybe wee whiffs of vetiver? I discover this somewhat somewhat elegant, you might put a couple of drops behind your ears earlier than any date. Anchovies and sardines too (I imply, not earlier than a date!) Mouth (neat): lime juice and seawater plus olive brine, cough medication, mouthwash and custard. I am discovering somewhat extra vanillin than in different Worthy Parks (oops). With water: excellent. There is a form of rectitude that is extra uncommon in HMDN or NYTH or CLRND/MNSK, I’d say. Pretty WP! End: lengthy, clear, on salty lime and olive-y anchovies. Boy am I not hungry now, let’s toast a couple of slices of rye bread… Feedback: excellent, simply excellent. Goes with the most effective middle-aged Islays.
SGP:463 – 90 factors. |
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Foursquare 14 yo ‘Redoutable’ (61%, OB, bourbon and Madeira, Barbados, 2020)
As outdated Jacko (Chirac) would have mentioned, that is provocation! I imply, releasing a rum that is bearing the title of a French nuclear submarine, proper now! Could I counsel, for some subsequent bottlings, ‘Le Triomphant’, ‘Le Téméraire’, ‘Le Vigilant’ or ‘Le Horrible’? De nada, be my visitor… Color: amber. Nostril: sometimes Foursquare, that’s to say fairly assertive, with each a heavy-ish and a lighter fashion effectively mixed, plus, as I noticed a number of instances already, one thing agricole. Praline, maple syrup, bananas flambéed, some softer earthiness and touches of camphor and menthol. In reality it’s a little subtler than a French nuclear submarine. By the way in which, want one? Simply ask… With water: somewhat lots of wooden glue, then vetiver many times. Teak, eucalyptus wooden, carbon mud, nut shells. Mouth (neat): varnish, bourbon, brine, liquorice. Nothing irregular at 61% vol. With water: takes off now, with citrus and glues and varnishes and brines. Olives, samphire, capers, anchovies… Presumably certainly one of my favorite Foursquares, to be trustworthy. I get pleasure from heaviness (is that an official assertion, S.?) End: very lengthy, definitely saltier than different Foursquares. Feedback: a form of Jamaican Foursquare, hope I am not ruffling anybody’s feathers right here. Somewhat redoutable certainly.
SGP:463 – 90 factors. |
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Caroni 23 yo 1998/2021 (59.2%, Thompson Bros., 286 bottles)
Aged for 11 years in Trinidad and 12 years within the UK. Unsure anybody might inform, past any advertising and marketing speak and spiel, however there. Color: amber. Nostril: comparatively gentle, varnishy, bitter, with notes of Barbour grease and with very heavy terpenes in addition to notes of ueber-gamey, err, sport. Grouse? Extraordinarily uncommon this far. With water: pine essence, carbolineum, marrow soup, very outdated Spanish jabugo, plasticine, artichokes, eggplants. Excessive, actually, would make any Port Ellen really feel like Glenkinchie ex-refill. Mouth (neat): I do not know. Consuming your rubber boots whereas consuming benzine. Extraordinarily dry and difficult – the Kronos Quartet enjoying Captain Beefheart. With water: similar, it’s excessive and plastic-like. I had thought plastics would have develop into streng verboten? End: lengthy and intensely dry. Carbon. Feedback: I do not know what to say, I’ve misplaced all references. Not for the faint-hearted, that is for certain. I am going to add a rating as a result of I’ve to, however there.
SGP:375 – 85 factors.
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Hampden 29 yo 1990+1992/2021 ‘JMH’ (57.7%, Rum Sponge, Decadent Drink, Jamaica)
A label with a sponge swimming in a muck pit. I say these labels will find yourself in museums, subsequent to Brueghel, Bosch and Grünewald. You might simply trash the liquid and preserve the labels, that is the place the actual worth lies. Now, since we have gone this far, I’ve simply by no means, ever heard of any ‘JMH’ marque at Hampden. What’s up, Sponge? … Color: gold. Nostril: new Pirellis. Fatter than the WP, saltier as effectively, extra bouillony, with extra varnish for certain, lifeless animals, barely alive greens, and wee whiffs of natto. Natto kills, all proper? With water: carbon, olives and plastics, blended then burned. Unfold with pine needles and sriracha sauce. Mouth (neat): it is onerous to fathom that this is able to be 30 years outdated, actually. Heavy, salty, gritty, ueber-estery, carbony, plastic-like, excessive, I am certain there are E.T. molecules in there. This can’t be human, let’s name the Pentagon. With water: virtually chemical. Exxon? Veedol? Whole? The band Devo’s personal drink. Bear in mind Devo? End: lengthy and, curiously, somewhat gentler. Due to citrus fruit, saviours of the spirits world. However was this fuel-smoked bacon vital within the aftertaste? Feedback: completely love this baddish eventful rum and hate the Sponge. Frank Zappa in a bottle.
SGP:474 – 90 factors.
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Good, a really final one, and why not make it somewhat stylish? Previous Versailles, agreed?
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Versailles/Enmore 30 yo 1990/2021 (54.2%, Greenheart Assortment, Guyana, 235 bottles)
From the well-known single picket pot nonetheless that was situated at Enmore when this was distilled. A.F.A.I.Okay. it had been at Versailles earlier than and was then moved to Enmore, then from Enmore to Diamond. However nothing to do with the French kings, I’d suppose… Now I like this very Gallic quote, ‘Has God forgotten all I’ve executed for Him?’ (Louis XIV). Huge head certainly, Macron is identical (saying that as an Alsatian). Anyway, again to this Versailles… Color: straw. Nostril: oh, oak shavings, charcoal, coriander, aniseed, fennel seeds, whelks and razorfish, recent almonds and pears, rye bread, sandalwood, lemongrass… It’s all extraordinarily delicate, and certainly some form of anti-Hampden. I can’t not consider the best white Pessacs. Previous Laville, if that rings a bell. With water: nice information, no adjustments in any respect. Takes water like a champ. Chic. Mouth (neat): however that is elegant certainly! Embrocations, all outdated sorts of plastics, smoked salmon, kippers, sesame, pine nuts, natural oils, pine liqueurs, bone-dry natural liqueur (unsweetened chartreuse), embrocations, cedarwood… My that is countless and a tribute to time. Nothing can beat time. With water: cautious with water, aside from that, that is excellent comfortable liquorice with somewhat mint. We have to bow. End: not that lengthy however all these resins and oils are simply flabbergasting. This saltiness within the aftertaste very a lot in order effectively. Feedback: bear in mind, time is a key ingredient to aged spirits, solely i****s would deny that and say in any other case. As at all times, attempt to determine who’s cashing in on the crime. There.
SGP:562 – 92 factors. |
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 Verify the index of all rums we have tasted thus far
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