Velier Long Pond Cambridge STC❤️E

 Excellent on fresh fruits coated with vanilla and bourbon. 🤤

 The tropically aged Long Ponds simply have a great flavor profile that I enjoy very much: fruit esters meets wood and an always discreetly present sweetness. This bottling also joins the high quality ranks of Velier bottlings from Long Pond seamlessly. In direct comparison with the 2010 release, it is clearly more powerful, but also more aromatically present - which is not least due to the additional volume percentages. Both play far in front.

 02.05.2024 Retasting and I still love this release a lot. Once rested it releases a wide array of flavours. Would have love more of these bottles in the shelf but unfortunately hard to find or very expensive. --------------- This is a unique and well balanced rum with intensity. Close to the perfect rum!

 Very nice bottling just as the other NRJ Cambridge bottlings. Intense with lots of funk yet nicely aged in tropical climate. Compared to the 2010 12y, the 2005‘s esters are less pungent and chemicals forward but leaning slightly more towards fruits. Compared to the recent 2005 18y bottling, this is more vibrant with more funk.

 super tasty Long Pond! Mango, banana, pineapple, sour raisins, sour tangerine, maple syrup, roasted almonds with sea salt, relatively bitter, tannin-accentuated with a pleasant, astringent fruit acidity. Surprisingly harmonious to drink, for me personally just a little too bitter overall, but really a nice fruitiness and hardly any meaty notes compared to the 18y 2005 and the 12y 2010. But the 18y is clearly even better!

 The Highe(a)sterweek is really a highlight!!!And again a top rum...To the LP STCE I think you do not have to say much more! Today again in comparison to the new STCE counter-tasted! My first tasting is confirmed! First class LP

 #10 RumXHighE(a)ster weeks: Blind tasting: Jamaica i think i already had this in glass, maybe from clarendon 20+ years of aging approx. 60% Mid ester My prediction the RA clarendon EMB. Result: Very harmonious, good balanced, round Long Pond. Pleasant to drink with 550/700 hlpa of ester. I see this one between the TECC and the vale royal vrw.

 Rum X Easter Weeks 26.4. blind tasting:Cool profile. Unfamiliar to me, I have a feeling.Nose:Nutty, caramel, chocolate, tobacco, deep roasted aromas, tropical fruitMouth:Fruity, fresh, a bit tangy, spicyFinish:Peach, mirabelle plum, apple, chocolate, brown sugar, get. ApricotsFirst thought on the nose was Guyana, but the peach on the finish didn't suit me.Would have said 55-58%, relatively low esters, around 10 years.Thought of a Worthy Park. After all, the island right 🙃

 In direct comparison with the 2010 for me slightly weaker, because edgier and more alcoholic like the 2010. Nevertheless, a very good Long Pond.

 Very complex nose that constantly releases new aromas. Over time, notes of esters, tropical fruits and solvents become more dominant. This is also reflected in the taste, although the solvent notes are more in the background (which I find positive). Edit: I still really like it. A mixture of high ester markers and foursquare on the nose.

 Insanely delicious ... In direct comparison with the 2010 STCE from NRJ, this one is a tick behind for me - however, I tasted the 2010 when opening the bottle and this one from the sample of an already opened bottle. That means I probably need two new bottles to find out the ultimate favorite of one of my favorite brands. Update: tasted from the freshly opened bottle, corrected upwards again. Really delicious.

 Incredibly delicious profile! Tropical fruit, glue, wood, sweetness, and everything perfectly balanced. I absolutely have to taste a direct comparison with the 2010 and the 18-year-old 2005. So, finally tasted all three Cambridge wines together today. More funky and fruity than the 18-year-old 2005 Cambridge. Riper and more complex than the 2010 Cambridge. The profile of the 13-year-old 2005 is somewhere in between. Can't decide between the two 2005 Cambridge...

 Franconian Tasting Gang on 19.04.2024 In the next unequal battle, two STC♡E of TWJ2015 and the top dog Cambridge 2005 (13yr) compete. Unfortunately, there is a clear difference in color, taste and intensity. The clear winner is, of course, the Cambridge.

 This STC from 2005 really makes me happy on a weather-wise boring Saturday - THANK YOU for that 🤝

 Great Long Pond from nose to finish complex, exciting and just delicious.To enjoy😋.