Experiences with old Demerara rums?
Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 11:07 pm
Hello all,
I was wondering if you would kindly please give some recommendations of older Demerara rums to me? I'm afraid my expertise of these fascinating Guyanese rums is totally inadequate, but I would very much like to gain experience and purchase some good (old) demerara rum. It is not easy to find opinions or tasting notes of such rums from anywhere, and the rums themselves are rather "dear" price-wise, so any information would be greatly appreciated indeed!
As to my personal liking of rums (which may help in giving recommendations), I enjoy very. very much the El Dorado 21yo "mainstream" release. The 15yo is very good also, but a tad sweet to my liking. I once tasted a very old 1975 Demerara bottled by Gordon & McPhail, and was very impressed: Albeit this lacked the pleasantness of the mainstream El Dorado releases, it was packed full of wonderful flavours of espresso coffee, dark chocolate, dried raisins (in a - dry form) and subtle fruitiness that was overcome with woody dryness towards the end.
Non-Demerara favorites of mine include Appleton 21yo, English Harbour XO for example.
I have not always enjoyed "straigth from the cask" type of rums: Some have too much bitterness, overpowering burned molasses flavours or taste simply too pungent for my liking. Apart from curiosity value, I do understand why sometimes mainstream rum producers do charcoal filter etc. to make some rums more palatable. A few examples of rums which I did not enjoy very much would include the Berry Bros Port Morant finished in Islay casks, and one particularly pungent single barrel release of Monymusk I bought in Germany years ago.
If anyone can make recommendations or suggestions of any sort, I would be very grateful!!
EDIT: I do realize I asked similar information in this http://www.refinedvices.com/forum_/view ... 180&p=1653 message chain, but I am hoping to get more information..
I was wondering if you would kindly please give some recommendations of older Demerara rums to me? I'm afraid my expertise of these fascinating Guyanese rums is totally inadequate, but I would very much like to gain experience and purchase some good (old) demerara rum. It is not easy to find opinions or tasting notes of such rums from anywhere, and the rums themselves are rather "dear" price-wise, so any information would be greatly appreciated indeed!
As to my personal liking of rums (which may help in giving recommendations), I enjoy very. very much the El Dorado 21yo "mainstream" release. The 15yo is very good also, but a tad sweet to my liking. I once tasted a very old 1975 Demerara bottled by Gordon & McPhail, and was very impressed: Albeit this lacked the pleasantness of the mainstream El Dorado releases, it was packed full of wonderful flavours of espresso coffee, dark chocolate, dried raisins (in a - dry form) and subtle fruitiness that was overcome with woody dryness towards the end.
Non-Demerara favorites of mine include Appleton 21yo, English Harbour XO for example.
I have not always enjoyed "straigth from the cask" type of rums: Some have too much bitterness, overpowering burned molasses flavours or taste simply too pungent for my liking. Apart from curiosity value, I do understand why sometimes mainstream rum producers do charcoal filter etc. to make some rums more palatable. A few examples of rums which I did not enjoy very much would include the Berry Bros Port Morant finished in Islay casks, and one particularly pungent single barrel release of Monymusk I bought in Germany years ago.
If anyone can make recommendations or suggestions of any sort, I would be very grateful!!
EDIT: I do realize I asked similar information in this http://www.refinedvices.com/forum_/view ... 180&p=1653 message chain, but I am hoping to get more information..