Velier Chelo Clairin Vieux Sajous - Second Release

"VSGBNose: not a classic Clarin, the oloroso cask has mellowed it considerably. Fruity it is, apple and honeydew melon with a little vinegar. In addition something vegatibles, maybe artichoke, green with something, like chamomile. Palate: hui, seems very sweet, sherry sweet, so quite full-bodied. Cherry, plum and dried, sulfured apricot. On the palate, the sherry fizz - as so often, or almost always - clearly drowns out the actual rum. If you like that, it is quite tasty, but for me always too monotonous and interchangeable. So also here."

"Very nice delicious Clairin! I really enjoy this series of aged clairins! I would always prefer these aged to the unaged ones! Here you can taste all the lovely clairin notes, fruits and also woody roasted notes which comes from the barrel!"

"Even better than the 1st version. Nice ester and glue notes. Great, complex flavor that is right in the middle between good Agricole and Hampden."

"This is a very good Clairin and it will probably devides the waters because it's a bit different from the other releases. I like it a lot actually. The nose is light yet fresh with grass, floral, glue and vanilla as well as some dried fruit. This rum needs to rest before it surrenders all the flavours. The palate is sweet, warm and dry with dried fruit, spices, wood, grass and lovely floral notes. The finish is fresh and medium long with wood, vanilla, dried fruit and lovely floral notes. Should have bought a few bottles when I had the opportunity."

"Overall, the rum seems somewhat closed, the fruity freshness of younger Clairins has already evaporated quite strongly by the storage - but the rum shows itself somewhat more dominant on the spicy side. Perhaps with even longer storage time would come up again a little more tension, so the rum but the concise freshness was taken, without the storage has already really struck positively. Does not pick me up so completely."

"Still a very nice success. Floral, fruity, all the Clairin markers are present."

"I don't remember much about the first batch, but this one's a success: the clairin is clearly present, but with lovely notes of aged rum. Intensity, texture, sweetness, freshness."

"Barrel and spices dominate. For me, the whole Sajous DNA is lost here :( still quite tasty but somehow I do not warm up to it and is for me rather close to a normal good Agricole than to a Clairin sajous.🤷🏼‍♂️"

"Nutty notes in olive water come across a bit strange. In addition, fresh sugar cane juice on wood with a pinch of citrus."

"I have this bottle now circa 3-4 months open and I like it now better than at the beginning. For me, the Oloroso was the top and this one the flop, but I'm warming up more and more to this drop. From the nose to the nose, the palate to the finish, I like it very much with different moments that are sometimes closer and sometimes further from the unaged Sajous."

"In the same vein as the first, with a little more wattage and tannin. A good clairin, but nothing innovative or transcendent."

"In der Nase drücken direkt die typischen Noten vom Zuckerrohr entgegen. Im Gaumen wirkt der Rum dann etwas komplexer, leider scheint mit der Alkohol nicht perfekt integriert und stört leicht, im Abgang mittellange. Vom Aromaprofil recht klassisch Zuckerrohr, mit grasigen und fruchtigen Noten."

"The smell reminds me strongly of an Agricole that has at least 12 years under its belt. So I was very pleasantly surprised by the smell. A lot of vanilla. The taste is then very roasty with fresh tones and again a lot of beautiful natural vanilla at the end. Really great for such a young distillate."

"Bei Serge im Schrank gefunden und probieren müssen. Netter Rum, aber trifft zur Zeit nicht ganz so meinen Geschmack. Mir ist dieser florale und kräutrige Geschmack den ich empfinde nicht ganz so rund. Irgendwie holt er mich nicht ab, obwohl er bestimmt kein schlechter Rum ist."

"Packs a lot of flavour and packs a bite but full of flavour with a long aftertaste. Quite floral with plenty of spice."