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| Hello, that is one among our (nearly) each day tastings. Santé! |
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September 1, 2024
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A phrase of warning
Let me please remind you that my humble assessments of any spirits are completed from the perspective of a malt whisky fanatic who, what’s extra, is aboslutely not an skilled in rum, brandy, tequila, vodka, gin or some other spirits. Thanks – and peace! |
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A number of extra rums for this Sunday
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The top of summer time is gently approaching, just a few leaves are already turning yellow, French civil servants are on the brink of go on strike, college students are making ready banners for the upcoming protests, and most organised teams are demanding extra assets and threatening to hitch the scholars between Bastille and République… In brief, autumn is on its approach in la douce France, because it does yearly. And we, we will get pleasure from just a few rums.
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At Papa Rouyo in Guadeloupe
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Jamaican Rum 2023/2024 ‘>1,200 esters gr/hlpa’ (64.3%, The Spirit Traveller, 1st fill Austrian crimson wine, 1,347 bottles) 
A mix from two distilleries. At 1,200+ esters, your selections are naturally restricted to Hampden, Lengthy Pond, or New Yarmouth. In fact, you would possibly mix a 1,700gr-ester rum with one nearly devoid of them, if you could find a small batch of the latter, that’s. However let’s skip the rule of threes… As for the Austrian crimson wine cask, I’d wager it doesn’t carry a lot to the desk on this context, however let’s see… Color: rosé/partridge eye. Certainly. Nostril: the aroma hits you even earlier than the cork is totally out. Actually. There’s a faint whiff of a wine cellar at harvest time, however I’m seemingly imagining that – the remainder is all about large esters, although leaning extra in the direction of black olives than petrol and tar. Not that we’re complaining; we find it irresistible. And naturally, there’s a healthy dose of liquorice too. With water: natural teas, cedarwood, cherry stems, and, sure, extra olives. Mouth (neat): merely explosive. Tar, seawater, each black olive from the Iberian Peninsula, and, let’s say, pink grapefruit. Simply so. With water: the same old cavalcade of super-esters typical of Jamaican rum. Olives, salt, tar, liquorice, lemon juice, and a contact of vinegar… End: exceedingly lengthy. Feedback: given the color, the wine cask will need to have had some influence, although pinpointing it’s past me. I like these very younger rums. What’s extra, the worth is kind of light.
SGP:474 – 88 factors. |
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Nicely, which may not have been the best opener, however what’s completed is finished.
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Papa Rouyo 1 yo 2022/2023 (56.7%, Habitation Velier, Guadeloupe) 
Papa Rouyo, the highest launch of final yr. 430 gr/hlpa this time, which is slightly first rate for Guadeloupe. Oh, and it is pot nonetheless, not from a creole column, and produced from crimson cane. Aged in previous Cognac casks, however no worries, I’m sure it’s not fairly an in-cask mix. Color: gold. Nostril: ah sure, asparagus with hollandaise sauce, contemporary mastic and lanolin, paraffin, white truffles, and distilled holly berry… it’s very distinctive, refined, elegant… With water: you get a lot nearer to sugarcane and contemporary acacia wooden. Mouth (neat): completely top-tier Guadeloupean. I consider the manufacturing is kind of small, however in case you come throughout it, don’t hesitate. A gorgeous mix of waxes, white and yellow fruits, with a touch of plantain. A contact of salt that’s very well-placed. With water: I get the faint impression {that a} little bit of Cognac shines by way of right here, together with peaches and sultanas. Let’s simply say we didn’t discover. End: not overly lengthy however contemporary, saline, coastal (anchovies), with these pretty notes of contemporary sugarcane lingering. A really calmly candy aftertaste. Feedback: maybe not fairly on the extent of the formidable younger ‘Vibrasyon’ of 2023 (WF 87), but it surely actually speaks effectively.
SGP:552 – 85 factors. |
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Papalin 10 yo ‘Réunion’ (50%, Velier, La Réunion, 3,608 bottles, 2023)
A mix of 4 rums from La Réunion, every from a special distillery. In my humble opinion, there’s a little bit of every thing available in La Réunion, however I’ve full religion in our Italian associates’ mixing expertise. Color: deep gold. Nostril: it looks like the highest tier of Savanna is doing a few of the work right here. A really spectacular, extremely uncommon nostril, unusually medicinal, with camphor and menthol, adopted by fruits on the verge of rot and a few tobacco. It’s actually odd, however I find it irresistible. A little bit of bear garlic and black garlic (no connection). With water: brand-new plastic straight from Temu or AliExpress, a type of unboxings you immediately remorse. Right here, although, it’s very good. Mouth (neat): how amusing! Toothpaste, orange juice, pine sap, thyme oil, caraway liqueur, and wormwood… With water: and right here comes a contact of rosewater, with much more thyme. A contact of salt. End: lengthy, saline, resinous, tarry, and really deviant. Feedback: you may actually sense a grasp blender behind this splendidly weird creation. We like this type of weirdness. Is that this Savanna?
SGP:562 – 87 factors. |
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Worthy Park 7 yo 2016/2024 (55%, Rum of The World, for Whisky Milano, Jamaica, cask #WP16JD02)
We all the time say that the Italians are very, very specific about what they put of their mouths, and that’s undoubtedly even more true in Milan. And in Bologna, Genoa, Florence, Palermo, Rome… Color: gold. Nostril: WP is all the time extra compact and softer than H, but nonetheless retains that oilcloth, tar, crushed olives, Barbour grease, diesel, and motor oil character, together with some properly ripe bananas. This can be a prime instance. With water: a pencil sharpener in motion and freshly sawn fir wooden. Mouth (neat): sure, it’s clear, with an apparent, nearly easy-going facet, but there’s main liquorice and tar coming at you from all angles. There’s a binary side we love, and we should admit we’re slightly binary ourselves. Beautiful salinity, Dutch liquorice, and so forth. With water: what steadiness! That’s really WP’s robust level. End: the identical, with seawater, liquorice, bergamot, oysters, and seaweed. A sure sweetness lingers. Feedback: very a lot in the identical lineage.
SGP:553 – 87 factors. |
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Hampden 2023/2024 ‘Rum Love Pageant Version 2024’ (64.4%, The Colors of Rum, new American oak)
Love at 64.4% vol.? 400-600 gr esters/hlpa, so I suppose it’s an HLCF marque. My favorite. Let’s test all this love, love, love, love… Color: gold. Nostril: linoleum, tar, acetone, inexperienced apples and pears, varnish, vinegar, carbon… Some rums actually don’t want to attend for years to indicate their worth, and that’s the prevalence of rum over all different aged spirits. With water: rust remover, polish, new leather-based, and turnips… Mouth (neat): fantastically chiselled punch, fairly acidic, very salty, and admittedly loaded with acetone. And pickled turnips (turnip sauerkraut). With water: that industrial chemical vibe that we love, in all probability due to our barely perverted tastes. End: lengthy, extra on aged apple, shoe polish, brine, and olives… Very salty aftertaste. Feedback: love, and peace.
SGP:463 – 88 factors. |
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Let’s transfer on to an aged rum and see if we will get previous 90…
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Caroni 25 yo 1998/2023 (63.4%, Milano Whisky Firm, Trinidad, 230 bottles) 
10 years within the tropics, the remainder in Europe. That’s just like the destiny of a well-heeled European retiree who is aware of the right way to dwell. Color: darkish amber. Nostril: polish and chocolate. I repeat, polish and chocolate. Additionally, new trainers from some ridiculous DNVB straight from Fb, and pencil shavings. A contact of strawberry. It’s very pretty, not a ‘heavy’. With water: very Ikea-like. Varnish, contemporary plywood, low cost paint, seawater, a touch of cider vinegar. Mouth: it hits a bit, a contact acidic, very lemony, borderline ammonia-like. However since we’re all a bit masochistic on the subject of spirits, we fairly get pleasure from it. With water: we’ve cracked it, it’s change into elegant, salty, even very salty, in truth, extraordinarily salty, but it surely’s excellent. End: very lengthy, acidic and briny, extremely pickled. Feedback: completely not a straightforward rum, however one provides in, one surrenders—life’s too brief (S., I consider it’s bedtime).
SGP: 372 – 90 factors. |
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Let’s end with an previous Guyanese story…
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Diamond 26 yo 1996/2022 ‘SVC’ (47.3%, The Style of Rum, 190 bottles)
I consider SVC could be a label for one of many two Coffey stills at Diamond (SV), with the C maybe standing for ‘Colored’. Fairly the labyrinth of marques certainly. Color: mahogany. Nostril: it’s actually wealthy, with even some vinous touches alongside molasses, currants, gravy, dates, and above all, Armagnac and caramel. A touch of mint as effectively. Mouth: liquorice and a Moscatel-like observe, nonetheless loads of molasses, corn syrup, a contact of tar, anise, pipe tobacco, after which a great deal of Christmas cake and plum pudding… The feel could be very thick, oily. End: lengthy, nonetheless thick, syrupy, caramelised, with honey and liquorice. Feedback: you do get the impression that one thing was added to this previous rum, maybe proper when the cask was stuffed. Actually paying homage to some older El Dorado expressions, it appears, or sure batches of ‘Black Tot’ for the British navy. A barely retro fashion, which I like very a lot regardless of a contact of ‘stuffiness’.
SGP:751 – 87 factors. |
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 Examine the index of all rums we have tasted thus far
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