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| Hello, that is one in all our (virtually) each day tastings. Santé! |
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September 12, 2021
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Rumming away
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I agree that is a horrible headline too, however let’s examine what we have got on the tasting desk… Principally new indie stuff at rocket-fuel energy, really, so want me luck.
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Black Tot ‘Grasp Blender’s Reserve Rum 2021’ (54.5%, Elixir Distillers, blended rum, 6000 bottles) 
I am at all times discovering it reasonably transferring when very altruistic distillers and grasp blenders settle for to half with their very own reserves. By the way in which, for the primary time distinguished Grasp Blender Oliver Chilton has added some Australian rum to the Black Tot composition; may that be Beenleigh? Apart from that, it is all a ‘British’ rum with Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad. Color: gold. Nostril: you’d virtually imagine you can learn by means of this one on the nostril, discovering the Jamaican(s), Trinidadian, Bajan… It is fairly estery, diesely, with some meatiness (bacon) and fairly some liquorice and star anise, then overripe bananas and fermenting pineapples. Touches of olives, which I at all times discover very Jamaican (though I’ve by no means checked in the event that they have been rising olives in Jamaica) and a handful of raisins. With water: will get drier, on many natural teas and much more liquorice (sticks). Very recent allspice combine. Mouth (neat): ultra-classic wealthy British-style rum, with heavy liquorice, petrol and rotting topical fruits, and a spiciness that will stem from the Australian. Only a very wild and foolish guess. With water: superb, a notch lighter maybe (Barbados?) with these raisins coming to the entrance and some violet sweets within the background. However liquorice retains operating the present. End: reasonably lengthy and fairly salty. Just a little extra pipe tobacco, molasses, prunes and raisins. Feedback: excellently constructed and really ‘British Navy’ certainly. Why not additionally do a French Marine Nationale rhum, one in all as of late?
SGP:662 – 87 factors. |
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You stated Australian rum?…
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Beenleigh 13 yo 2007/2021 (63.4%, The Duchess, Australia, cask #38)
There is a beautiful platypus on the label, however I imagine the outdated Beenleigh distillery will not be positioned in Tasmania, reasonably in Queensland. It truly is an outdated rum distillery because it began fuming within the late nineteenth century. See the outdated advert above, it is from 1921 (Wikipedia). Color: gold. Nostril: positive it’s a little sizzling and burning, with reasonably extreme varnishes and different rougher components, however I’ve a very good feeling… With water: asparagus and fruit peelings, recent bark, certainly sugarcane dregs, Wulong tea, menthol, camphor, then bananas and diesel oil. Mouth (neat): slightly wealthy and sizzling however there’s one thing Guyanian to this one, seemingly. Varnish, petrol, inexperienced grapefruits, cane juice … With water: certainly, one of many softer Guyanians, however with extra tropical fruits, pink bananas, papayas for positive, peaches, pomegranates… End: reasonably lengthy, comparatively softer than anticipated, however completely balanced. Superior notes of fermenting sugarcane juice (vesou). Feedback: not fairly a shock as I had already tried one or two superb indie Beenleighs. The OB I may strive had been reasonably much less convincing.
SGP:562 – 85 factors. |
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Père Labat 2013/2021 ‘Hiali’ (57.5%, Tamosi, Marie-Galante, agricole, 287 bottles)
We at all times like to say the marvellous wee island of Marie-Galante however it’s administratively a part of Guadeloupe. Let’s do not forget that Père Labat is made at Distillerie Poisson and that naturally, it is pure agricole (cane juice, colonnes créoles). Color: mild gold. Nostril: surprisingly rounded, displaying lots of butterscotch, custard and raisin-like notes, you’d virtually imagine somebody’s simply opened a dozen recent panettones within the room. I’ve to say I wasn’t fairly anticipating this, let’s transfer on… With water: will get leafier, with extra fruit peelings, additionally raisins and caramel… Maybe cognac wooden? Mouth (neat): robust however tremendous good, with extra varnish and paint thinner, slightly icing sugar, candy cider, liquorice, lemon curd, raisins… With water: certainly, what wasn’t within the nostril is right here on the palate, with some cane-iness, petroly components, and lots of liquorice. End: reasonably lengthy, identical, getting grassier in the direction of the aftertaste. Extra fruit peelings. Feedback: completely ex-cel-lent, maybe only a tad softer and rounder than anticipated. Much less ‘straight agricole’.
SGP:651 – 86 factors. |
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Clarendon 16 yo 2004/2020 (61%, Auld Alliance tenth Anniversary, Jamaica, cask #433883)
Given the classic, this must be ‘outdated’ Clarendon a.okay.a. Monymusk from the Vendome nonetheless, not ethanoly rum from the massive triple column that was erected there in 2009 and that is able to churning out near 20Mio LPA for big manufacturers equivalent to Diageo’s. This must be a bottling by Bristol Spirits. Color: deep gold. Nostril: begins varnishy and acetic, at all times a very good check in my e book. Acetone, stewed artichokes, almond oil, marzipan… However cautious, I drills holes into your nostril. With water: banana cake, cigars, olives, slightly horse dung, dried citrus pores and skin (chen-pi), some engine oil… Mouth (neat): it drills holes into your tongue too, however I do get a gritty, very Jamaican salty olive-y and petroly residence base. Let’s add water earlier than it is too late: big salty, virtually smoky improvement, transferring in the direction of mezcal and gentian, plus liquorice, tobacco and slightly leather-based. No human being might be in opposition to that. End: very lengthy, slightly spicier. Caraway and ginger, fennel seeds and star anise within the aftertaste. Feedback: reasonably epic high-ester rum, effectively within the top-dressing Jamaica fashion. Maybe rather less immaculate than the highest Hampdens or Worthy Parks. Water is obligatory.
SGP:563 – 89 factors. |
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New Yarmouth 26 yo 1994/2021 (63%, Rum Sponge, Jamaica, first fill barrel, 249 bottles)
In line with the homeowners, ‘the end lasts for a similar size of time it takes to learn the whole lot of Ceefax by means of an early Nineteen Nineties 26″ Sony Triniton TV set.’ All proper. Except I am mistaken, New Yarmouth Distillery is the place Appleton’s dressers are made. Oh and in keeping with this label, the high quality Scots at Decadent Drinks/Rum Sponge, after fairly some years of working with skilled graphic designers, lastly managed to restart their very own Commodore 64. Effectively accomplished! Color: pink amber. Nostril: coal tar and peonies, roasted chestnuts, cedar wooden, café latte and used engine oil. All the things’s regular. To assume that these murderous 63% vol. are usually not even ‘pure’ and that they decreased this child! With water: I do not assume it’s a very funky New Yarmouth, I discover it reasonably softer, on fudge, millionaire shortbread, sugar cane, banana pores and skin, hay, earl gray, chamomile, different teas… Mouth (neat): wonderful, rounded, fudge-y and coating, however boy is it robust. With water: this time there’s reasonably extra funk, however it all fairly light, ala mild Caroni if that rings a bell. Maple syrup, cane syrup, slightly cough medication, eucalyptus… Very very good, virtually refined when you handle to tame it (warning you want a six-pack of Evian). End: medium to lengthy, very creamy, with slightly extra tar, liquorice, and earth. These gentiany touches. Feedback: extraordinarily good and I appear to recollect some older Appletons that have been displaying these traits.
SGP:552 – 89 factors. |
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New Yarmouth 26 yo 1994/2021 (59.1%, Thompson Bros., Jamaica, 271 bottles)
This one might be comparable. Color: darkish gold. Nostril: shut, clearly. Similar provenance, identical classic, comparable excessive energy, that is even a tad gentler, extra on café latte and fewer on tar. Let’s examine what water does to it. With water: slightly steel polish, in any other case tobacco and leather-based plus notes of stewed candy carrots and pumpkin, or pink kuri squashes. Mouth (neat): fruity, virtually bonbony. Caramel sauce, fudge… They generally have whisky fudge in vacationer retailers (in Scotland, not in Jamaica) and this Jamaican jogs my memory of these. I am additionally reminded of Belize’s Travellers Distillery. With water: some earth, slightly orange juice, cane syrup… It truly is a mild Jamaican. End: reasonably lengthy, this time with liquorice rolls and liquorice allsorts. Some black tea and oak within the aftertaste, plus curious notes of baked eggplants. Feedback: an intriguing outdated Jamaican. Fairly very good however I feel the Sponge’s sort of overshadowed it. I feel I ought to have had this one first, mea Culpa.
SGP:651 – 86 factors. |
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A final strive at New Yarmouth 1994 and we’re accomplished.
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New Yarmouth 26 yo 1994/2021 (67.9%, Treasured Liquors for Malt, Grain & Cane, Jamaica, Japan unique, cask #435082)
All of them point out ‘heavy Jamaican rum’ w.r.t. these New Yarmouths however after the Clarendon, which was way more ‘funky’, they really feel light as lambs and as candy as lollipops. Color: pink amber. Nostril: maybe not this one, I do really feel some paint thinner and even slightly ammonia, however at virtually 68% vol., I am taking no probabilities. With water: this one too will get gentler and rounder, with oranges, truffles, liquorice and liquid caramel, however some tar is remining within the background, in addition to, maybe, half an olive. Carbon paper and paraffin. Mouth (neat): homicide and damnation. That is the energy. Should you insist, as an instance over-infused mint tea, high-concentrated lemon juice and heavy-duty solvent. You should not have insisted, cough, cough… With water: a better acidity certainly, lemon juice, even gherkins, these olives that abound in Hampden whichever the marques, liquorice… End: actually lengthy, on comparable notes. Feedback: the factor is, at such excessive energy you might want to add water, however while you add water and in principle, you must look ahead to no less than twenty minutes earlier than all molecules have mingled collectively as they need to. I imagine that is notably essential with this fashion of rum, the place phenols and esters could play hide-and-seek. Robust job.
SGP:561 – 87 factors. |
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These three New Yarmouths have been extraordinarily robust, we could have overestimated our energy immediately, I feel I want a dip, adios.
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 Verify the index of all rums we have tasted thus far
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