Velier Isautier Hors d’âge Traditionnel

The nose and palate unfold dark chocolate, roasted notes, tropical and dried fruits, and rich molasses. Community consensus highlights balanced complexity and a powerful, elegant finish—Impresses fans of cask-strength sippers.

8.7  / 10  (70 reviews)

Dark chocolate and tropical fruit with warming roasted spice.

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    How does this rum taste?

    • Exceptionally balanced dark chocolate notes
    • Intense, long and elegant finish
    • Complex tropical fruit and spice profile

    Dark chocolate and roasted tropical fruit take center stage in this 16-year-old, cask-strength Isautier from Velier. RumX tasters praise its harmonious balance of molasses, baking spices, and wood, with a notably long, elegant finish. While the ABV brings intensity, most find the integration spot-on for such a powerful, dessert-like profile. Worth exploring for fans of rich, fully matured rums.

    Aroma

    Vanilla Roasted Tropical fruit Molasses

    Taste

    Dark chocolate Tropical fruit Toasted Molasses

    How is this rum rated?

    8.7  / 10  (70 reviews)
    Top 8% Reunion
    Top 2% Isautier

    "I love the tropical maturation! You can taste the ageing in this rum, it goes in the direction of the Velier Demerara. Amazing! Compared to the 2006 molasses RX16224, this one is almost worlds better, much more complexity."

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    8.9 / 10
    Review by: Johannes

    "Already on the nose with the aroma of polished oak, vanilla and caramel so often found in tropically aged Demerara rums - and the promise is maintained on the palate. The aforementioned notes are joined by pepper, chocolate, leather and subtle licorice. All in all, I only miss a bit of freshness to get the rating even higher. The quality, however, remains exceptional, very nice bottling."

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    8.5 / 10
    Review by: Jakob

    "The third in the bunch! My favorite ... it has that certain something that appeals to me! This heavy sweetness in combination with the spices and fruit! It harmonizes so well and is very intense on the palate. It just fits...very tasty"

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    8.8 / 10
    Review by: Thunderbird

    "Gigantic. I would have blindly guessed a nice cask-strength Appleton. Incredibly cool notes of flambéed banana, honey, caramelized nuts, dark chocolate with sea salt and dried apricots, then a lot of barrel and a lot of tannins and very astringent on the finish. Also very intensely juicy sour blackberry, some lime, mocha, bitter molasses and dark chocolate with coffee nibs and sea salt. Clearly the winner compared to the Agricole. A great wine, but unfortunately a little too bitter overall!"

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    8.9 / 10
    Review by: crazyforgoodbooze
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    Details about this rum

    Country
    Distillery
    Bottler
    RumX ID
    RX10632
    ABV
    65%
    Category
    Column Still Rum
    Vintage
    2005
    Cask number
    #Lot #38
    Made from
    Molasses
    Distillation
    Column Still
    Age
    16 years
    No. of bottles
    546
    Bottle volume
    70cl
    Price range
    <250€
    Type of spirit
    Rum
    Velier • Isautier 2005 &nbsp; 16yr &nbsp; 65% Hors d’âge Traditionnel

    How is the price of this rum developing?

    The RumX community has already added 67 bottles to their collections:

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    61
    opened
    3
    emptied
    3
    Open rate
    9%
    Ø Market value
    171€

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    About the Isautier distillery

    The Isautier distillery is located in Reunion. Rums from Isautier have been reviewed 986 times with an average of 8.1/10.

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