Velier Long Pond Cambridge STC❤️E
Balanced ester funk with tropical fruit
Already purchased 126 times
Why shop with RumX?
Live auctions
This rum is currently being offered by one of our verified auction house partners. RumX helps you discover and bid on rare rums.
How does this rum taste?
Praised for its balance of ester-driven funk with ripe tropical fruit and mature wood. Expect a bold nose of varnish and pineapple that softens to caramel, barrel spice and juicy fruit. Many find it rounded, well-integrated and long-finishing, opening with time in the glass. A popular, limited 18-year Velier release highly rated by 126 reviewers.
Community purchases
The RumX community has already added 126 bottles to their collections:
Digitize your rum collection and get exciting insights into the market value of your collection or individual bottles:
You may also enjoy
The identification of similar rums is based on the tasting notes of the community and the key data of the rum.
About the Long Pond distillery
The Long Pond distillery is located in Jamaica. Rums from Long Pond have been reviewed 5,806 times with an average of 8.5/10.
To Long PondInteractive Map
This map requires your consent to load Google Maps content.
By rum lovers, for rum lovers
I'm Oliver – together with Jakob, Robert, and Lukas, we started RumX in 2018 as a small passion project in Stuttgart, back then under the name Rum Tasting Notes.
What began as a digital tasting diary is now the world's most comprehensive platform for rum fans: over 24,000 bottlings, 250,000+ independent reviews, and an active community with 47,000 members. We combine the collective intelligence of our community with an integrated marketplace, allowing you to shop securely and manage your collection directly from the app.
The goal? To offer you, the rum connoisseur, a place where you can choose with confidence—without paperwork, detours, or expert jargon.
Lots of marzipan and varnish on the nose. Incredibly intense and complex on the palate. Slightly acidic, spicy and fruity. The 18 years of tropical maturation produce an absolute top release. One of my highlights at Whisky Live Paris 2023.
What a board.... Overripe fermented mango, salty lime, subtle marzipan and slightly fleshy notes meet esters, varnish and glue. Incredibly dense and thick viscosity, salty, bitter fruity and heavy. I love this juicy lime aroma paired with umami bbq notes and overripe baked banana, as well as cinnamon and mint and mango lassi! Extremely long finish, incredibly delicious and complex! So delicious. Probably one of the best Jamaica rums of this year! Only the 2005 TECA is as great... For me probably one of the best and at the same time most extreme Long Ponds ever!
Nose is an explosion of flavors. Funky with esters, fruits and ample notes of solvents and marzipan. Also quite some wood once you are past the chemical notes. Compared to the 2010 release, this is much more mature, dark and closed up at the beginning. While you get full ester goodness, this is more balanced compared to the 2010 and less agreesiv (comparatively that is, of course!) Very nice on the palate as well. This is - in the most possible way - soft, balanced and elegant. Yet don’t take this wrong. There is still plenty of funk. Complex fruits (tropical as well as dried - I get some cherry here) mingling with wood and esters. This is very rich and the long tropical aging delivers brilliantly, presenting a dark and heavy rum without being overly wood forward or bitter in the slightest. Excellent! On the palate the 2010 is more playful and the ester notes are much more punchy. Much more adstringent and „in your face“. Both brilliant but rather different sipping experiences old and dark versus funk forwards. Both great. Compared to the younger 2005 NRJ bottling, both clearly share the same DNA. The additional years of tropical aging clearly transformed the profile towards darker and woody notes. Esters are much more tamed with dried fruits being more present in the mix.
A rum tasted at the WLP. A nose of marzipan and glue with dried fruit. On the palate, there's glue, vegetal and quite a lot of bitterness and tropical fruit. The finish is long on wood and dried fruit. A fine rum, but a little disappointing in direct comparison with WLP's HLCF, which I personally liked a lot.