The Antigua Distillery Antigua

01.02.2025 retasting at the Nordlichter tasting. --------------------------- Another release where the price tag is really good compared to what you get. Fruity with natural sweetness and caramel. The palate is nice and warm as I like it and the chocolate and coffee balances the overall profile. I had to rest it for a good while before the flavours really came through.

Overall a great rum that’s fresh, complex and unmistakable an English Harbour that tastes quite much as the 5yo, but of course with stronger tastes thanks to the higher ABV that I bought a sample of from RhumAttitude. It’s a single barrel selection from Antigua Distillery Ltd distilled in 2015 based on molasses in their column still. It’s aged in an ex-bourbon cask, bottled at cask strength at ABV 64,9% in just 257 bottles.

Delicious typical chocolate flavor profile. However, intensity and complexity are too low for me for the higher ABV. High Congener I liked better.

Not very complex, but very drinkable. Nice coconut notes and pleasant sweetness. Burns a little too much. Addendum: I have just shared a bottle of this in the forum and tasted the rum again when bottling. The overall impression is confirmed. The alcohol could be a little better integrated, but overall I think the bottling is slightly underrated.

Werde es vermutlich nie verstehen, warum Antigua in der Rum-Welt so underrated ist. Auch hier ein toller Rum mit einem komplexen Geschmacksprofil und darüberhinaus einem klaren Signature-Gaumen der Distillerie!

Wow, not bad, this rum is more on the sweet side, which I really like, especially at 30° degrees. The nose is dominated by cream toffee and on the palate it's not very reminiscent of Milka's cow's milk chocolate. The only thing that bothers me is that the alcohol is quite sharp-edged and not too well integrated. Otherwise there would certainly have been more in it.

A fruity floral nose as in the Caribbean...wonderfully beguiling...so opens the game on the palate, a heavy sweetness with lots of tropical fruit. The longer it lingers in the mouth, nut, chocolate and vanilla flavors are added. It becomes slightly pimento towards the end, and some ester joins in as well. In the finish it remains on the coarse herbaceous side! A very multi-faceted rum, but a little too unbalanced for me.

Pretty typical Antigua high congeners style, a bit weaker than peers being less fruity. On the nose, caramel vanilla and coconut, but also hints of chocolate. All of this will appear again when drinking along with some wood and spices.

Northern Lights Meeting 2025: In the nose first of all a bit of glue, vanilla and some fruit. In the mouth then strong, slightly sweet, spicy with a good pepper note. Perhaps a little thin. Very chocolatey, medium-long finish.

This is a nice reminder of what the house of English harbour could be, if they were not to make the cask selection themselves. Those rums shine with their sweet complexities. but still my excitement is not pant wetting

Absoluter top Antigua cask strength!

High congener rum

Eine ähnliche Nase zu den anderen English Harbour Rums, nur hier mit einem krassem Kräuterzusatz. Während der Verkostung wandelten sich die Aromen auch stark ab, sehr interessiert. Im Mund hauptsächlich würzig, leichte Süße, Holz, wobei im Abgang wieder die Kräuter kommen.

Spanish profile with chocolate/coconut notes. Alcohol could be better integrated and lacks some complexity.

Tasted as a 5cl sample and my first rum from Antigua. The nose reminds me very strongly of pre-Christmas. Coconut, vanilla, nutmeg and caramel remind me of baking cookies with mulled wine. Is felt very similar to Barbados but by these associations yet somehow different.Taste a rather simple profile, but very round and coherent. All in all, very tasty, but no complexity miracle.A nice chocolaty finish.