Velier Long Pond Vale Royal VRW
Balanced tropical fruit and chocolate
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RumX members love how this Long Pond VRW balances tropical fruit funk with a creamy chocolate-vanilla core, while the 62.5% ABV feels remarkably well integrated. Expect estery, solvent-tinged aromas opening to mango and pineapple, then woody spice and dark chocolate on the palate. Often enjoyed neat; some even blend it into a Mai Tai. With 143 reviews and strong buyer confidence, it’s a popular, limited 12-year Velier pick.
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About the Long Pond distillery
The Long Pond distillery is located in Jamaica. Rums from Long Pond have been reviewed 5,806 times with an average of 8.5/10.
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I love Long Pond distillery!Vale Royal is the least pronounced as scents. It is a depowered version of the Long Pond TECA or TECC. This bottle is a reissue from a Jamaican distillery that has now been closed for decades.On the nose we smell solvents, spices including vanilla, chocolate and marzipan or otherwise pastry and a slight roastiness.On the palate we always have dark chocolate, nail polish or solvents, pastry, woody notes and always a slight peanut roastiness. I also seem to detect a faint note of tar on the palate.The finish is medium-long with hints of grape/ lychee.ABV beautifully integrated, better than its big brothers!A nice tasting rum well balanced, but with a strong character!
The least strong in Ester of the series, which gives it a wonderful balance between fruit,vanilla, chocolate,cocoa and oak with a perfectly integrated alcohol 🤤
Very relaxed long pond. Passion fruit, dark chocolate, caramel and vanilla with glue and marzipan on the nose. The taste is somewhat spicier and woodier than expected, with a nice dark cocoa note with vanilla pulp and passion fruit and a hint of mango. The finish is a little more bitter with grapefruit peel, raisin, glue, star anise and licorice, as well as slightly roasted wood and barrel notes and a subtle sourness... could just be a little rounder and more complex overall, the valynch 2006 clearly has the edge here. Nevertheless, an absolutely solid representative of the VRW Mark!
Lovely long pond! Very pleasant to drink. I would say perfect for a beginner to start into the wonderfull world of rum. The alcohol is integrated very well. PN this is a low ester rum! I see this one a couple of points behind the TECA. Nose: delicious, solvents, ester, nail polish, trop. fruits, overripe fruits, fruity, mango pineapple, sweet, caramel, marzipan, cherry wood, vanilla, roasted nuts, hazelnut Mouth: dry, astringend, delicious, full bodied, creamy, balanced, funky, alcoholic, ester, solvents, fruity, trop. fruits, pineapple, oak(barrel), roasted nuts, peppery, leather, dark chocolate, caramel Finish: medium, dry, brandy, burnt sugar, fruity, oak(barrel), nutty, chocolate