Karukera
There are 72 rums from the Karukera distillery in the RumX database.
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1496
Top review from Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰:
"08.12.2018 Had a wonderful meet up with old and new friends at this wonderful hotel. Notes. Medium dark colour. Nose: fresh, wood, roasted, fruit, vegetal, spice. Palate: round, oily, wood, spicy, earthy, dried fruit, light coffee. Finish: medium to long, wood, vegetal, light chocolate, faint caramel."
11194
Top review from TheRhumhoe:
"Un joli Single Cask signé par Karukera. Le nez fait parler les notes agricoles très prononcées d’herbes, de fleurs, de terre, de canna à sucre et de menthol, avec en arrière-plan un soupçon de vernis très subtil mais qui fait la différence au nez par rapport à un rhum agricole classique. C’est surprenant de sentir cela ici, et très agréable. Les fruits exotiques, le citron vert et les fruits secs s’allient aux épices douces (vanille, cannelle) et au bois pour donner un mélange complexe, équilibré et plaisant. En bouche, l’attaque se veut encore très végétale et florale, la canne à sucre et les herbes n’étant pas loin. On ressent aussi instantanément l’acidité des agrumes (citron vert) et des fruits exotiques. Les notes boisées et épicées apportent une certaine sécheresse au palais, qui s’en retrouve dérouté par autant de saveurs relativement opposées, mais le mélange opère bien. Il faut penser à aérer le rhum pendant un certain temps, sous peine de se confronter à une bête difficile à dompter. L’alcool pourrait être un peu mieux intégré. La finale a moins d’impact que l’entrée en bouche, et laisse le côté sec agricole, la fraîcheur végétale et la chaleur des épices comme dernières impressions à la dégustation. Un bon rhum agricole qui offre un joli tour en Guadeloupe avec un profil original et relevé comme il faut."
4228
Top review from Frank:
"I'm curious and definitely have to try more of Karukera, I've heard some good things; but this one is a bit thin at just over 46%. Nose: spicy, fruity and green. At first, however, soft, Danish sweet licorice is up front, followed by fennel seeds and light caraway. Herbaceous with camomile and saffron. The fruit is green fig and fresh guava. However, the overall impression is slightly woody with rather fresh wood. There is also a slight sweetness of sugar water. Beautiful nose, but somewhat short and flat. 83 Palate: initially it seems thin, but then a nice spiciness quickly emerges. It is slightly salty with caraway and a little nutmeg, plus aniseed or licorice. There is also some fruit, a mixture of plum and cherry and fresh guava again. On the finish, it becomes increasingly grassy and herbal, almost with a hint of cucumber and sugar cane juice at the end. 79 If this rhum had more %%, it would be even nicer..."
14162
Top review from Léo Delek:
"Le rhum que j'ai goûté qui a le souffre le plus présent de tous les rhums que j'ai pu gouter. Il me rappelles le pétards pirate que j'amlumais quand j'étais petit. J'ai la fruits rouges (cerise) en bouche après ouverture"
275
Top review from Godspeed:
"Ok now we are getting into the slightly more premium side of Karukera as this bottle will set you back about 100€ today. Lots of wood and barrel on nose and palate. Well-integrated alcohol. ABV is just right here, not sure it could support more but definitely wouldn't want less either. The bitter note, which I'm starting to suspect is a Karukera signature, is present but is much better and more enjoyable than in the 2009 select cask. Very noticeable caramel. Medium to short finish. Price to quality is mediocre, but it's a very enjoyable rum nevertheless."
1961
Top review from Godspeed:
"Quite astringently alcoholic nose, mixed with some white chocolate. Not inviting but not unpleasant either. On the palate a completely different world opens up. Delicious exotic spices, slight caramel, tropical fruits (papaya in particular) all tantalizingly offset by the best expression so far of the signature Karukera dry bitter note. It's really good and makes you eager for the next sip. Excellent depth, medium to perhaps long finish. Probably could have supported even more ABV to punch the complexity outward even more, because there is a lot here. Easily the best Karukera I've tried so far. After my 3cl sample ran out I immediately wished I had more which is the sign of a really good one."
3408
Top review from Sylvain44:
"A nose of greedy sugar cane, pancake batter, fresh and round, the alcohol is very well integrated. A white rum of tasting a perfection in ti-punch! By draining it, the nose is very carried on the banana, and the mouth a little also, it is very good!"
1496
Top review from Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰:
"08.12.2018 Had a wonderful meet up with old and new friends at this wonderful hotel. Notes. Medium dark colour. Nose: fresh, wood, roasted, fruit, vegetal, spice. Palate: round, oily, wood, spicy, earthy, dried fruit, light coffee. Finish: medium to long, wood, vegetal, light chocolate, faint caramel."
11194
Top review from TheRhumhoe:
"Un joli Single Cask signé par Karukera. Le nez fait parler les notes agricoles très prononcées d’herbes, de fleurs, de terre, de canna à sucre et de menthol, avec en arrière-plan un soupçon de vernis très subtil mais qui fait la différence au nez par rapport à un rhum agricole classique. C’est surprenant de sentir cela ici, et très agréable. Les fruits exotiques, le citron vert et les fruits secs s’allient aux épices douces (vanille, cannelle) et au bois pour donner un mélange complexe, équilibré et plaisant. En bouche, l’attaque se veut encore très végétale et florale, la canne à sucre et les herbes n’étant pas loin. On ressent aussi instantanément l’acidité des agrumes (citron vert) et des fruits exotiques. Les notes boisées et épicées apportent une certaine sécheresse au palais, qui s’en retrouve dérouté par autant de saveurs relativement opposées, mais le mélange opère bien. Il faut penser à aérer le rhum pendant un certain temps, sous peine de se confronter à une bête difficile à dompter. L’alcool pourrait être un peu mieux intégré. La finale a moins d’impact que l’entrée en bouche, et laisse le côté sec agricole, la fraîcheur végétale et la chaleur des épices comme dernières impressions à la dégustation. Un bon rhum agricole qui offre un joli tour en Guadeloupe avec un profil original et relevé comme il faut."
3408
Top review from Sylvain44:
"A nose of greedy sugar cane, pancake batter, fresh and round, the alcohol is very well integrated. A white rum of tasting a perfection in ti-punch! By draining it, the nose is very carried on the banana, and the mouth a little also, it is very good!"
10155
Top review from Maxime Checler 🇫🇷:
"Beau produit ! Au palais le caramel, la coco et les agrumes se mélangent au cuir. Très agréable d’avoir un mix agricole/mélasse. Super sympa à boire, même très très bon ! Finale un peu courte cependant. Et prix bien trop élevé malheureusement."
6383
Top review from Stefan Persson:
"The quite long finish goes the same way as at the palate. This brand was founded 2002 when Guillaume Drouin teamed up with Francois Longueteau at the Esperance/Longueteau Distillery to create an Agricole made from blue cane. Karukera is by the way the Carib’s name on Guadeloupe."
2552
Top review from Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰:
"#4080 Again a great bargain when looking at what you get. A very fresh white with very good ABV integration. Lightly fruity with cane and vegetal notes. Draws pretty nice curtains in the glass and the empty glass has some copper and grass."
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Popular independent bottlers of Karukera
- Velier 4 rums
- Christian de Montaguère 1 rum
- Claude Marsolle 1 rum
- V&B 1 rum
About the Karukera distillery
The Karukera distillery is located in Guadeloupe. Rums from Karukera have been reviewed 767 times with an average of 8.0/10.
All rums from Karukera
- Velier Karukera Single Cask 2008 9yr 58,4% RX6221
- Velier Karukera Single Cask 2008 11yr 53,4% RX2711
- Velier Karukera Japoniani Rhum Vieux Agricole 2009 11yr 58,2% RX7198
- Velier Karukera Flora Antillarum 2009 12yr 60,4% RX12788
- V&B Karukera 2018 54,1% RX15509
- Karukera Vertisols (Terroir d‘exception) 2022 Unaged 50% RX13250
- Karukera Single Cask 2018 4yr 54,9% RX19115
- Karukera Single Cask 2018 4yr 54,3% RX13422
- Karukera Single Cask 2014 6yr 61,8% RX11195
- Karukera Single Cask 2009 11yr 52,2% RX11194
- Karukera Single Cask 2008 8yr 51,7% RX7763
- Karukera Single Cask - Sauternes Cask Finish 2000 46,5% RX3257
- Karukera Single Cask (LMDW) 2014 6yr 64,9% RX10629
- Karukera Single Cask (LMDW) 2009 11yr 57% RX10628
- Karukera Single Cask (Brandy de Sherry) 2014 7yr 65,1% RX14162
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