Savanna S.B.S Réunion Grand Arôme 2021

Just my second tasting and I still like this a lot.

I‘m sitting like the meme of John Travolta and looking for the Savanna GA flavours… Double Checking the label doesn‘t help🫣 The nose is OK, but what‘s going on the palate is just disgusting. The finish last long with a bitter taste of sour cherries 🤣Some extra points, because I like sour cherries 😁 BTW My GF ask, what‘s smells like compost in here 🤦🏻‍♂️

Very interesting rum with lots of layers.... Not an easy sipper.

So I'm not sure whether I think it's good or bad. It's definitely something I've never had in a glass before. I feel the same way about Beast#3. But I don't think I'm very enthusiastic about it.

Very interesting profile, a bit meaty on the nose behind the fruit, glue and everything else. I understand why the rum is so controversial, but I would take a bottle of it.

Nothing fits together here. The nosing still gives hope, but then the blow comes. The alcohol is poorly integrated, fizzy, the fruit is completely drowned out...I drink the rest with cola (almost a belediging for the cola)

Super estery overripe yeasty fruit in smell. Grand arome AF. As if you spilled beer and you didn't clean it for a day. In taste: super chemically. Rubber/glue. Plastic. Wow. Something else. Very funky but interesting. Fermented fruits. Weird but sort of likable too. This is definitely one for the rum nerds among us.

This rum is really interesting, but I'm not sure how to rate it yet, never had such a flavor in the glass. It is a mixture of initially pure nail polish remover (ester galore), but without a fruity component, and then later wet wood, the Virgin Oak has done a great job. A crass stuff, it seems somehow "sick" to me, in the sense of absolutely wacky, extreme. Anyone who blindly tastes a Savanna out here can only be congratulated. Let's see what the others say, who get these days samples from me. 😉 Update 2023-08-04: At the 2nd tasting, unfortunately, completely failed. The co-tasting whisky drinker (advanced) just said "manure!" - and I have to agree with him now, unfortunately. 😳 Too bad, with this experimental rum I could not pull him from the whisky to the rum side. But I'm still waiting for the reviews of those who got a sample (at a fortunately bearable price) of this (failed?) experiment. I'm curious!

All the markers of GA savanna are there on the nose: brine, capers, ketchup, slightly rotten fruit and acidity. Short on the palate, the alcohol heats up a little. It's not bad, and for 70 euros it's certainly worth the price now, but it's still a little young...

I can't do anything with it. I have a taste on the palate as if they had added a few dead animals during fermentation . . In addition to rotten and musty, somehow something carrion-like! At the very end, a little strawberry wine gum comes through, but that can't really save the rum.

For me, a mixture of Grand Arome and Herr. Lots of gummy bears, esters, strawberry, a little wood, perhaps a little snappy, a little plastic.

The nose starts off with a lot of glue, fermented red fruit, vanilla, tobacco, chemical notes, but then more and more repulsive notes such as butcher's meat or offal (rumen) appear. The first impression on the palate is also similar, in the direction of rotten meat. A little better at the end, with vanilla and tobacco, but the unpleasant notes unfortunately remain. I'm glad it was only a sample. How SBS was able to select this cask remains a mystery to me, or was this supposed to be a 'Savanna beast' 🤷‍♂️

The first impression was unfortunately better than the retasting - I really liked this mix of woodiness and esters at first, now every time I take a sip I have the unpleasant taste of rubber gloves with lots of fruit and vanilla in my mouth, unfortunately not my cup of tea.