Le Galion French Antilles Virgin Oak Matured (Rum Stylez) 2019
Funk-loving rum geeks who enjoy Savanna, Clairin or Hampden-style esters and want an experimental, smoky, olive-briny French Antilles twist at fair pricing.
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How does this rum taste?
Most love the crazy mix of strawberry yoghurt funk, brine and smoke with well-hidden alcohol; critics find it too weird, umami or unbalanced on the palate. Consensus: very good, experimental sipper.
If you’re into Savanna Grand Arôme or Clairin and want something equally funky but with smoky virgin oak and briny olives in the mix, this will keep your palate busy in a good way.
Beginners, anyone sensitive to 50% ABV or those who dislike salty, meaty, smoky or fermented notes in their rum.
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About the Le Galion distillery
The Le Galion distillery is located in Martinique. Rums from Le Galion have been reviewed 704 times with an average of 8.1/10.
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For me, confusingly similar to the Velier-Clairin from the 11th GRF (RX13301). And that one didn't taste good to me either, unfortunately. 🤷♂️ So not only that I would have blindly guessed the wrong country with Haiti, this Agricole from Martinique doesn't particularly turn me on at the palate (whiskey impression, not my cup of tea at all); which is a pity, because when opening the bottle, promising exotic-sweet funk sounds hit me in the nose. The light coffee note in the finish, however, reconciles me again a bit with the unpleasant previous impression on the palate.
8,4:On the nose, esters and fermented, overripe tropical fruits like pineapple, banana bump into our nosetrils, with ripe strawberry, citrus, intense, quite pungent, with a help of an olive, slightly roasted young wood with caramel and glue. On aeration, spices arise, mostly with vanilla, confectionery with yeast, white chocolate, flowery and herbaceous, mineral sugarcane notes, fruits like berries, apricots and grapes. 8,1:On the palate, the attack is pungent, with a combination of esters, polish, brine, olive and fermented tropical fruits, nice peaches, grapes, sour and bitter.Luckily slightly roasted, smoky wood comes to neutralize this pungency with white chocolate, confectionery notes and spices like vanilla, pepper.With resting the rum, vegetal aspect instills itself with flowery, grassy and herbaceous touch. 8,3:The finish is long, funky with notes from the palate, more balanced as before, with agricole notes as rounding act, white chocolate is delicious...
Would I have in the blind tasting after the first sip somewhere at Jamaica with whiskey finish.... Beyond the colorful mixture of strawberry-peach-pineapple-grape, fermented aromas to the palate a little olive it goes here just a little smoky. Exciting variety.
A mixture of Savanna Grand Arome (strawberries, vanilla) and Hampden high ester (yoghurt, buttery) on the nose. On the palate, the notes from the Virgin Oak cask come through clearly. The finish also has tannins, strawberries and brine.