Long Pond Planteray Jamaica (Kentucky Cask) VRW 2017
Most enjoy the clear Long Pond esters, ripe pineapple‑banana and fair price. Critics find the wood and bitterness a bit too dominant and the alcohol not fully tamed. Consensus: solid, characterful Jamaica.
Fans of drier, fruity Jamaican pot-still rums who enjoy esters, tropical fruit and a bourbon-cask edge without added sugar, and want a characterful but not extreme Long Pond for relaxed sipping.
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Dry, fruity Long Pond step-up
If you already enjoy lighter Long Pond or Worthy Park and want more esters without jumping to full-on funk bombs, this gives you fruity VRW character with a drier bourbon-cask twist.
Those sensitive to 50%+ ABV, drinkers who dislike bitterness or woody dryness in the finish, and anyone expecting a sweet, rounded, beginner-friendly Jamaican.
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About the Long Pond distillery
The Long Pond distillery is located in Jamaica. Rums from Long Pond have been reviewed 6,349 times with an average of 8.5/10.
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Alcohol very well integrated. Beautiful fruity, dry, slightly tropical esters.
8,5:On the nose, the first impression is very pleasant and balanced with estery overripe tropical fruits like pineapple, banana and mango, some citrus.The molasses is vegetal with hay and olive. On aeration, the wood is a bit roasted, the new notes are a plum, lemon peel and flowery, as Kentucky finish brings malty feeling. 8:On the palate, the attack is spicy and fruity with overripe, for a moment even rotten, tropical fruits like mango, banana, pineapple, there are quickly some dried fruits like figs, apricots. The molasses is vegetal with the olive, hay, bitter with waxy, rubber notes, that makes the rum less round..The wood is spicy with pepper, clove, roasted with caramel, there is a pinch of a salt, malty taste from Kentucky barrel finish.After resting, an interesting Bazooka bubble-gum note arises. 7,8:The finish is long, dry, less pleasant, round with strong bitterness, tannins, some nuts, fruits balance our tasting, the rum becomes earthy.
Heute gibt es noch den ein oder anderen Planteray. Als erstes den Jamaika 2017 Bourbon Cask. In der Nase sehr fruchtig nach Ananas und Bananen aber auch Ester ist zu erkennen. Im Geschmack auch fruchtig nach Mango. Sehr gut