Port Mourant El Dorado Rare Collection PM 1997

The nose is greedy and sweet. The palate is heavy, dusty and coppery, with citrus fruits melted into precious wood.

Nose is dark and very wood and herbs forwards. Very interesting but also demanding. Same focus on the palate. However, nicely embedded in a vanilla/honey-like sweetness paying tribute to the long tropical aging.

Edit: Yesterday again with DomM in the glass and a Ramón Allones 90 ANIVERSARIO SR. HENRY Edición Regional Exclusivo Alemania 2020 to go with it. Had to adjust upwards. Kick-off RumX Advent calendar 2023. What a start. Thanks to the organization team. Takes a while in the glass, but once it has developed... Delicious You really have to say that all these El Dorado bottlings are very good, there isn't really a bad one.

Heute gibt es wieder seit einer gefühlten Ewigkeit Port Mourants. El Dorado 1997: Leckerer Port Mourant mit den typischen Aromenprofil. Sehr gefällig, Alkohol top eingebunden, sehr süffig. Die Komplexität geht ihm etwas ab. 85 Pkt. El Dorado 1999: Etwas verschlossener als der Bruder vaus 1997. Der Alkohol ist nicht so gut eingebunden. Hatte mir hier mehr erhofft. 80 Pkt. Tamosi Karaya 1998: Geiles Teil! Mit den typischen Port Mourant Aromen, die in ihrer Komplexität Wurzeln schlagen und aromentechnisch ausweiteten. Das Mundgefühl ist vollmundiger und angenehm, der Alkohol ist hervorragend eingebunden. 90Pkt.

Great nose with lovely traits, but the palate is very intense - bitter-bitter spiciness, old wood, subtle smoky aromas...Port Mourant extreme, but from my perspective without the perfectly balanced complexity that characterizes the really great Demeraras.

Rumx Advent 30.11.23 Had something of a matured agricole for me blind. Very strong with spice, oak, tobacco. Something earthy, yet fresh. Expressively fruity on the nose. Woody depth paired with tropical maturity. Only the alcoholic spiciness in the mouth is off-putting. I guessed one of the Les Ephemeres series from Saint James. Edit: needs a lot of time in the glass, then the flavor profile unfolds more and more. The nose is excellent.

Very tasty Port Mourant in my opinion. Comparatively little herbal and medicinal notes, but overall very harmonious and round. Nevertheless, nice PM profile, with neat and pleasant woodiness. Like many El Dorado Rares top quality for good money. I like it very much!

Had thought at first that will again so a Port mourant which is too herbal and smoky for me but this one has a nice grape and passion fruit note in the background and rather the tannins of good black tea than of too much wood. Nice number! My favorite Port mourant will still not 😅🤷🏼♂️

The nose is mainly woody and caramel. Solvents and pungent spices. It's greedy and appetizing. On the palate, lots of wood. Too much, surely. A bitterness heightened by orange zest. Woody, bitter finish.

The nose I find very good, but on the palate dominate a little too much wood, vinegar, leather, licorice. Unfortunately, the fruitiness of the normal PM97 is missing.

Another pearl from El Dorado. Round and complex nose, from which you can not easily get away and which is the highlight. In the mouth intensely dark, tart, spicy, bitter and herbal (tea!). Fruit rather weak and if then associable with dried fruit. Beautiful rum with clear influence of the Wooden Stills.

The Rare Collection has really excellent bottlings with now very good PLV.Nose: full-bodied, elegant and round. Spicy-fruity-caramel. Overall dark and malty with dried orange, dried black currant and sulfured raisins. Also vanilla, dark maple syrup, some licorice and soft licorice and cream toffee. The 20 years have produced a beguiling nose. 90Palate: intense, elegant and balanced. Spicy-woody without the wood being too strong. Toasty, salty and burnt at first, then anise, licorice and a hint of mint. Seems slightly bacony with umami and fat pecan. Fine orange peel still comes in the back. The 20 years also makes a very good impression on the palate. 89

RumX Advent calendar 2023 "Prelude" (30.11.2023) Blindly tapped on old PM, but only after a long time in the glass. Before that, the rum changed like a chameleon and thus eluded classification for a long time. In the end, however, the typical wet and heavy wood remained. Gets better and better the longer it stays in the glass.

Compared to the El Dorado Rare Collection Port Mourant 1999, it is clearly ahead for me. For me, the 1997 is simply rounder, fuller, darker, more interesting. Unfortunately, the prices are now slowly rising ... as with the whole Rare Collection.

A great nose! Very nice rum however it is pretty intense PM. Lots of wood and fiery spices. Very dark, heavy and complex. Licorice, old leather and a small amount of fruit in the background. A long finish with burnt sugar. Very much full bodied!