Silver Seal Barbados BRS

Absolute royalty from Barbados - the "Rockley" style reaches its highest form of art here. Smoke, honey, fresh fruit, plus green notes - all this with perfectly integrated alcohol and without ever developing any form of heaviness. In one form: Formidable.

Compared to the RA, Plantation and Nobilis, the SS is for me in 3rd place.The Silver Seal needs a lot of time in the glass to develop. Alcohol is perhaps not absolutely top integrated, but it comes thereby very powerful. An excellent representative of the 86 vintage!

Part 6/8 of our 1986 Rockley tasting: Silver seal, awesome! Lime/peach-passion fruit/mint/black tea in liquid, plus some medicinal, dirty notes and incredibly intense and balanced! mega awesome number and one of the best rums I've ever had and will probably have!🤤❤️🇧🇧🍯🥭🍑 for me on a par with the RA but much more fruity and velvety. absolute grenade! Update: blindly I almost typed it as st. Lucia Vendome, due to the sau cool honeycomb, wax note and the rather dirty intense profile. Incredibly cool stuff!!!🙌🏼

This is an absolut board! One of the best rums I‘ve tried so far! The alcohol and barrel are integrated so well😵

After opening, something lazy and fruity, after 30 minutes in the glass no trace of it. Smoky, fruity, honey, slightly sweet, raisin? every nose gives you a new facet. I can't get enough of the smell. Intense in the mouth, first smoke, then a full broadside of black tea and endless wood, beautifully complex and super-integrated alcohol. Long, dry finish with wood and a slightly herbal/herbal aftertaste. Mega rum, meets my taste!

Two more 86 Rockleys today, the Bristol (thanks to Vienna!) at 46% and the Silver Seal at 58.8% - so not quite a fair comparison. I like the Bristol and it immediately screams out loud: Rockley! A fat honey note on the nose immediately. The SS is more complex (herbs, olive, brine), but a little less on the typical markers. On its own, the dilution of the Bristol is not a problem, but in direct comparison, the SS simply scores higher here, especially with its incredibly long finish.

Nuri oil sardines with honey. A unique flavor profile.Extremely complex, extremely interesting. In the mouth, madness. There is no rum that tastes similar.

Exceptionally good!

In the direct Rockley 86 match against the Rendsburger. Honey, smoke, fruit, rubber ... everything is a little quicker on the nose here and also a little less incisive. On the other hand, the Rendsburger has a fine sour fruit note of raspberry and lime. Similarly on the palate ... the Rendsburger brings fresher fruity notes of raspberry and lime into play. Both good and ultimately a matter of taste. I prefer the Silver Seal. It brings out honey, smoke and dirt more beautifully and roundly.

One of my favourite bottles on my shelf. Though expensive it's well worth the money and I can only recommend one. The nose is there from opening the bottle and once rested it just keeps on giving. Fruits and spice with an earthy tone and some rubber. Add some smoked oak and you have a monster. The palate is intense and complex with an oily texture. Again there is fruit and spice with tea, leather and rubber in the back. Again nice and smoky oak in there. The finish is very, very long with oak and peaches in the front and tannins and licorice in the back.

RumX Advent Calendar, Day 22. A strange nose with sour apple, smokiness and old varnished wood. After an hour in the glass, the flavors balance out. The palate is marked by old varnished wood, with a hint of sweetness and prune. A rather dark rum, but balanced by freshness (menthol?) and yellow fruit. The finish is rather long, with the same balance between dark notes (varnished wood) and fresher notes (mint and yellow fruit).

RumX Adventskalender 2024: Nr. 24 Was für ein beeindruckender Rum aus Barbados. Hätte auch ein Rum für den Heilig Abend sein können. Ausgezeichnete Qualität und Profil was ich noch bei keinem anderen Barbados Rum empfunden habe. Danke für die tolle Möglichkeit.

Edit Edit: after another few hours of oxidizing (8 hours) I now find it pleasant, but unfortunately still not good. Edit: after it only got 3.9 from me at the beginning, it was tasted again the next day after 3 hours of breathing. I now find it much more accessible. However, the extreme whisky character cannot be dismissed. The alcohol is not well integrated despite the long breathing time. It is complex, but definitely not my cup of tea with the extreme smoke. But still only mediocre for me Day 22 RumX Advent Calendar 2024 Despite all the love and the big name. Contrary to the great hype, I can't get much out of this one. As I've always detested smoky whiskies and this "rum" is very much in that vein, it just fell through for me. Still, thanks for letting me try something like this.

Rockley Tasting 1986/87/2000 Wahnsinn aber eine Nasenspitze hinter dem RA Rockley für mich.

RumX Adventskalender 2024 Tag 22. Also finde diesen Rum schon sehr gut, für ein ausgezeichnet reicht es aber bei mir nicht. Dieser Rum ist sehr rauchig, Honig und Vanille sind erkennbar, aber auch ein kleiner Fruchtanteil in Form von Mango.