HSE Single Cask (MEB 2019)

The nose of this rum is insane: it starts with roasted cocoa, coffee, lots of wood, always with a full load of vanilla and ends in dried fruits such as citrus and plum. Absolutely round and intense! Surprisingly mild in the mouth with a nice drinking strength, lots of tart notes and tart fruits. Not quite as round as on the nose. The finish is again very roasty with (hot) spices and sweet pear. The HSE XO already had this crazy coffee note, but this rum is on another level!

HSE at its best. Alcohol perfectly integrated, full-bodied, nice wood influence. An excellent Agricole!

Very warm, full Agricole with lots of almonds. Spicy and dried fruit. Very complex, alcohol super integrated. Good drinking strength. It tingles properly in the mouth and finish. Super Agricole! 😀😀😀😀

HSE fliegt meiner Meinung nach völlig zu unrecht unter dem Radar. Der 2003 MEB RX391 gilt als einwr der Beliebtesten und Besten seiner Art. Mich überzeugt er leider nicht ganz. Etwas Vanille, Schokolade und Kokos, bisschen grasig, pflanzlich und holzig. Alles gut ausbalanciert und mit gutem Willen könnte man behaupten er sei elegant. Dafür wirkt er für mich aber zu verwässert. Der Chantan Comte ist schon eine andere Hausnummer. Ein toller Agricole! Und der Montaguere setzt noch einen oben drauf! Fruchtig holzig mit einem sehr komplexen Gaumenspiel und einem extrem langem Abgang. Montaguere scheint ein gutes Händchen für Agricole zu haben.

A superb agricultural very greedy and balanced. The palate is a bit dry and green but this is well counterbalanced by greedy notes.

Interesting traffic jam, but less striking than other versions

Nicely round and light. On the nose plums, ripe banana and vanilla. When I taste Agricole i usually pick up this earthy and licerice note, it is also present here, but together with a refreshing minerality. Not fully my cup of tea, but i can appreciate the obvious quality.

very harmonious and complex on the nose and palate.

Beautifully round and full-bodied Agricole.

Good HSE, but lacks that little extra that would have made it soar. Very easy to drink, there's quality here but no boldness, something timid takes over and we find ourselves satisfied but not impressed.

From our rum tasting 2021.17.04

A very nice agricole. Perhaps not the most dominant, but for me the most surprising is the aroma of young bananas, which becomes particularly clear after some time in the air. Quite different from the banana we know from Jamaica and co. Otherwise, it is very complex, with dark aromas of wood, nuts and coffee, but also tropical fruits and plums. The 15 years suit this rum so well that I didn't notice the comparatively low alcohol content at first. Really delicious!

Very nice nutty note!

the nose is gigantic after passion fruit, vanilla and lots of barrel with roasted nuts. taste then towards young banana, pineapple, fig, pear and sesame. in addition relatively dry, acidic and lots of wood. overall very tasty and complex but not 100% my thing.

Strongly reminiscent of Irish whiskey on the nose. On the palate, however, it becomes clear that this is an agricole.