Velier Appleton Hearts Collection - 1993
Highly praised, ultra-complex Appleton Hearts with immense tropical cask influence, minty‑herbal depth and great balance for 63%. A benchmark dry, woody profile for fans of intense, long-aged rums.
Seasoned enthusiasts who enjoy dry, heavily oak-driven rums with mint, black tea, leather and light “industrial” notes, and who want to explore one of the most complex Appleton Hearts releases.
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Dry, woody, minty Appleton powerhouse
If you enjoy TDL, Enmore REV or the woodier Appleton Hearts, this will likely hit the spot with its dry tannins, minty black tea and deep tropical cask character.
Beginners, those sensitive to high ABV, or anyone who dislikes strong wood, tannins and mild bitterness in long-aged, unsweetened rum.
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About the Appleton Estate distillery
The Appleton Estate distillery is located in Jamaica. Rums from Appleton Estate have been reviewed 3,321 times with an average of 8.0/10.
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Tasted and enjoyed at the 1802 bar in Paris with good advice! Then in 2024 a nice sample! Nose: very fresh. fine wood, red fruits, menthol, light camphor, a few notes of dark chocolate; milk chocolate... Grapefruit, glue, dried herbs, tea... It's crazy, heady, like a perfume. Mouth: explosive, peppery, spicy. Then fruit returns under a very strong menthol. Finally, chocolate that coats the tongue. Almost unprecedented intensity. Alcohol very slightly present. Finish: big menthol, outrageous woodiness, big tannins, and dark chocolate again!
On the nose a really nice tropical matured rum at an advanced age. You don't often find such blatant tropical maturations and the risk that such rums are already a little over the top is very high, if you take the Appleton 84, for example. And yes, it is extremely mature, but for me it is by no means over the top. The nose is pleasantly warm. First comes some glue, followed by blood orange, grapefruit, orange peel and tropical fruit. However, spicy aromas such as aniseed, pepper, ginger, herbs and fresh mint are somewhat stronger. The barrel influence is enormous, both on the nose and in the mouth. It becomes noticeably tannic, especially in the mouth, but to my surprise only slightly bitter. For me, it's a harmonious thing overall, I really like it. I'm definitely going to get a whole bottle of this
Tasted against the 2002 Appleton Hearts (RX15475). And if I thought it was a dream at the first tasting, I have to say that I like this one a tick better. It's a little less alcoholic and earthier and spicier on the nose and palate, more KFM-like (which, as you know, I really like). 😉
Update: in direct comparison with the 94 Platzhirsch, it really did extremely well. The 94 is somewhat fruitier and sweeter in my opinion and the 93 has the nicer tannin, wood and mint mixture. Very nice bottling - I'll have to try it again against the 1994 to see which one suits me better, but it's already very good. With the 1994 definitely my favorite of this delicious series. More on the woody-bitter side ... but I don't mind. The nose opens up wonderfully fruity after a while and everything seems a bit like REV and TDL as mentioned before ... but also somehow like the old EMBs. Exactly mine.