New Grove Savoir Faire Single Cask

A well-stocked fruit salad bowl from start to finish! Really tasty. The alcohol is barely perceptible on the nose and superbly integrated on the palate. I found the previous one a little too sweet for my taste, but this one is perfect.

INCREDIBLE! to think that I paid 70€ for a bottle, if I'd known, I'd have bought 6... You don't know whether you're in Mauritius or on a TDL, fruit and menthol accompany vanilla caramel and chocolate on a background of wood and spices. Splendid.

Wow. Wirklich geiler Mauritius und wahrscheinlich meine neue Referenz für den 2010er Jahrgang. Rote Grütze und Beeren treffen auf dunkle Schokolade, Vanille, viel Fass und Menthol und Minze Noten. Im Abgang leicht floral und sehr fruchtig. Die Alkohol Integration ist darüber hinaus exzellent!

It was one of my main highlights from Whisky Live 2022. I can understand why with this tasting. Nose is very well balanced between wood, spices, round notes and fruits. Palate is on another level with fruits overload which makes it extremely funky. A very strong selection from LMDW 🥰

First of all, thanks to Gunnar, who brought me to this blatant rum 🤤 You can probably be really happy somewhere that many people simply don't have Mauritius on their radar. This rum has the fruitiness, complexity and woody notes of a very good 2002/3 T.D.L. together with the typical New Grove note. The finish is very long, floral, fruity, a little leather, umami, just really cool stuff, tastes damn good to me - a little astringent at the back, cinnamon ? The alcohol is really extremely well integrated - around 65% and yet I don't notice it at all.

Ever since @crazyforgoodbooze got me hooked on Mauritius at the 11th GRF, I've been trying to get to know the country's rums better. With this one, I like the expressive blackcurrant note on the palate. A really pleasant rum, but with an unremarkable nose and a short finish that can't match the Grays from Perola (RX12865) from the same year. Update 2023-07-02: I must have had a bad day at the first tasting, only 82 points just doesn't do the rum justice. Now, at the second tasting, it has a super-long, fruity and woody finish. The impressive red rum now gets a well-deserved 86 points. Pretty good PLV for a single cask and still available, wonderful. Update 2024-03-16: Used as a benchmark rum against two other New Grove single casks and more than lives up to its role. In the meantime I have to say, even better than the 2009 bottling. Amazing Mauritius!

Once again a sensational representative of the Grays bottlings from Mauritius. I mostly like the quality and flavor. Probably due to the mint/menthol. 😆 Often diluted bottlings naturally reduce the complexity. The higher ABV means you get the full dose of what Mauritius has to offer.

Im Vergleich zum LMDW 2009er hat die Nase des 2010ers deutlich mehr Röstaromen, aber ansonsten ähnlich: wahnsinnig fruchtig, etwas Karamell, Gewürz, Holz. Vor allem aber: sehr pflanzlich, von blumig bis erdig alles dabei. Fazit also insgesamt sehr gut, Preis ist auch vernünftig. Klare Empfehlung.

Auf der Bahnfahrt irgendwo zwischen Magdeburg und Hamburg. Hatte ein schönes New Grove-Sample mit; jetzt habe ich Zeit und Ruhe. Die Single Casks von New Grove sind immer große klasse… Nase: sehr blumig-fruchtig und fein würzig. Aprikose mit Kiwi, Stachelbeere und Maracuja, untermalt mit einer feinen Veilchen-Note (erinnert mich auch ganz leicht an Seife). Dazu weiche Vanille und Karamell hin zu Sahne-Toffee. Ganz hinten finde ich auch noch ganz leicht Rauch. Phantastische und runde, lieblich-säuerlich-fruchtige Nase. 8,9 Gaumen: kräftig, konzentriert. Süß-säuerliche Frucht Richtung Kiwi, Stachelbeere und Johannisbeere, dazu Aprikose und tropische Maracuja. Leicht orangig-bitter Richtung Kumquat. Jetzt kommt auch eine deutliche Minz-Note, die wunderbar zum würzigen Holz-Aroma passt. Die 65% fordern zu Beginn etwas, sind aber gut eingebunden. Toller Geschmack, 8,8

Also auch sehr lecker. Letzter Rum für heute. Danke Gunnar, echt lecker, mir persönlich aber etwas zu bitter. Ansonsten aber karamellig, fruchtig und vanilig in der Nase, im Gaumen kommt dann noch dunkle Schokolade dazu. Insgesamt sehr ausgewogen und lecker.

Die Abfüllungen von Grays sind sicherlich nicht komplexesten, aber ich mag einfach diese ausgeprägte Pfirsich Eistee Note mit etwas Minze und Gewürzen. Der Alkohol ist top integriert. Richtig tolle Abfüllung

Une belle salade de fruits de l’île Maurice avec une bouche intense qui rend les fruits plus frais,mentholé et un côté un peu sale style TDL.La finale est assez longue.très bon New grove

בקבוק ככה בדיוק אני אוהב את הרום שלי. קוקטייל פירות עוצמתי. מלא ברשמין מעניינים. הדבר היחידי שקצת מוריד לו זה שאחרי 2 דראמים הטעם מתחיל להיות מלאכותי קצת ומהפירות הטרופים זה נהיה טיפה מבושם. אבל איזה רום. אי אפשר שלא לעצום את העיניים ולהנות מכל רגע. לדמיין שאתם. בנופש על חוף הים ומגישים לכם קוקטיילים עם מוזיקה טוב. טרופי ברמה של בושמילס מבוגר. רק עשירית מחיר בערך. קיצר, מצוייו פלוס.

This is my first Mauritius molasses session, after having tasted it yesterday. A direct comparison of the Savoir Faire 2009 for LMDW, the Savoir Faire 2010 for LMDW and the CDI 2009 13 yo for Perola. The 2010 is also quite fruity, but not as extroverted and accompanied by tobacco and integrated in spices (cloves & ginger). The peach is less juicy, sharing the stage with dried apricot. A very elegant nose. The 65.2% is fantastically integrated and brings a great intensity. It is also surprisingly fruity, lots of dried apricot, but also mango and peach. A fresh mint also joins in - blind I would certainly have thought it was a 2003 TDL. Although dried fruit dominates in the mouth, the finish brings another really juicy mango - that's great. The 2010 LMDW is the best of my three wines, the intensity in the mouth more than makes up for the restraint on the nose. Alcohol integration, balance, complexity all top. The 2009 is very, very close on its heels. The old apricot and the greater complexity are particularly convincing here, but the slight bite costs a few points. Perhaps the difference is more a matter of form on the day than taste. The CDI is already very good, but falls a little short. It is lighter and therefore too far on the fruity side.

👃 blend of warm spices, vanilla and nougat. Empyreumatic notes of roasted hazelnuts, dark chocolate and burnt wood. Candied fruit on blood orange, stewed fruit on persimmon and a note of blackcurrant appear with oxidation. Finally, an encalyptus-like herbaceous freshness. Beautifully intense aromas despite excellent alcohol integration. 😋 An intense, lively flavor combining peppermint and fresh currants. In fact, all sorts of menthol notes, eucalyptus, candy mint, vicks vaporub... The wood is slightly astringent. The level of freshness 🥶 is at its peak. The finish gives way to slightly caramelized vanilla. ⛳ Quite short on After Eight confectionery, dark chocolate and fresh mint. Then dried herbs on a blond tobacco side. I also detect a non-dominant note of lychee. The finish is too short for the intensity and relative complexity of the nose and palate. It doesn't reach 89-90/100. Nevertheless, this single cask remains a very good representative of Mauritius and New Grove.