The Whisky Jury South Pacific SPD 2001
Highly praised archetypal Fiji 2001: fruity, smoky, ester-heavy and dry with good balance and length. Not the most intense of the vintage, but a consistently strong, characterful release.
Fans of high-ester, smoky island rums who enjoy dry, cask strength pours with medicinal, leathery edges and want a balanced, textbook take on Fiji 2001.
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How does this rum taste?
Balanced, classic Fiji 2001 funk
If you already enjoy Hampden or other Fiji 2001 bottlings, this is a great pick: same ester-y, smoky profile, just a bit more balanced and easy to drink at full strength.
Beginners or those sensitive to higher ABV and dry, tannic finishes, or drinkers looking for sweet, easygoing sippers without medicinal or leathery notes.
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About the South Pacific distillery
The South Pacific distillery is located in Fiji. Rums from South Pacific have been reviewed 3,457 times with an average of 8.0/10.
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Wow, great selection! Full of esters, fruits, slight spices and a suprising vanilla gentleness. The dry finish stays with you for a long time, producing extra saliva that brings back the esters for a final goodbye. Alcohol is well integrated, what an orchestra of flavors. Top notch!
Whiskyjury. Another quality bottler from Belgium. Banana smell enters the nose only seconds after pouring. Huray. N: lots of tropical/yellow fruits. Balance. Bit of rubber. Very small amount of smoke. Funk. Ester etc. Typical Fijian. T: creamy and dry. Yasmine tea. Again the tropical fruit. Baked banana. Flowery. Something musty. Very very good. Lots of flavours. Great balance. A bit hot. I Don't get the smokiness in the flavour. But I do get a bit of malt/whisky. One of the best Fijis I had.
This is my first time trying a Fiji 2001 and I'm really enjoying it. The nose is fruity, smoky and full of esters. On the palate I'm getting less fruit and more spicy notes. The finish is dry, bitter and lingers for a while.
Fiji 2001 Community Tasting - big thanks to Jakob for organizing this blind tasting. A great vintage and a comparison not without surprise. For me, the two Artesanal rums, neither of which I drank to the end, brought up the rear. An unpleasant juniper off-note was particularly disturbing (very pronounced in the rx15398, slightly better but still disturbing in the rx7779). Then, for me, the Rum Cask rx479 brought up the rear (i.e. very good / with the right markers), but not as great as the others. Surprisingly, the Isla del Ron, which has had a small reference status in my heart ever since I tried it, ended up in next place for me. But it was overtaken in the blind test by the delicious Whisky Jury (rx13025) and then by the sensational. cave Guildive (rx1717). For me, the Cave Guildive is the winner of the classic Fiji 2002 profile and is really top. I only rated the Flag LMDW Antipodes (rx13440) higher ... this one is clearly woodier but also ultra-tasty. It was also clearly recognizable blind and made the photo finish millimeters behind the Plantation rx11133, which probably also stood out because it was so un-Fiji2001 and has a great glue-caramel Guyana nose. Verdict: Typical Fiji winners are the Cave Guildive on the fruity-honey-feelgood side and the Flag on the woody. the Plantation is the wildcard winner. The two RA bottlings are the two that remain far below the level of the other two.