Velier Long Pond Vale Royal VRW

"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"

"A really good Jamaican with few esters. Nutty, dried fruit, nice solvents, dead dog (but of the good kind 😀😀😀). Needs 1-2h in the glass to open up. A sought-after collector's item tomorrow. The music to go with it: Lennie Hibbert "Real Hot". Edit: Back in the glass after a long time. Great Long Pond."

"Tried again . Corrected 2 pts upwards. 👍🏻 Very tasty VRW ... the tropical storage is simply unmistakable! Very tasty neat as a blend in Mai Tai, it really shows off its strengths."

"Needs time in the glass. Wonderful low-ester rum. Very good!"

"Vermutlich der zugänglichste Rum aus der NRJ Reihe. Sowohl an der Nase als auch am Gaumen deutliche Parallelen zu Foursquare. Ziemlich rund mit einem leicht bitteren/metallischen Abgang. Alkohol top eingebunden. Edit: Crosstasting Long Pond 2005/2006: Obwohl Low Ester, bringt der Vale Royal im direkten Vergleich die meisten Ester Marker in Form von Lösungsmittel und Klebstoff mit. Alles dezent und nicht verfleichbar mit den high Ester Vertretern. Dazu dann auch viel tropische Früchte, Gewürze, etwas Schokolade."

"A very expressive one with surprising round notes and loads of fruits of course. Love it 😊"

"Despite being the rum with the least esters in the series it is really a very good rum! I love these long ponds! This series of 4 rums is incredibly good!!!"

"Usual strong Velier Long Pond. Tasted with the RX11914, HV LP VRW 2006 for Singapore. Significantly more drinkable and rounder than the HV. And of course incredibly cheaper for a similar base product."

"8,7:On the nose, medicinal notes bump into our nosetrils like esters and glue, with fruits like mango, pineapple and roasted wood notes like chocolate, marzipan, caramel and leather. On aeration, the wood is spicier with vanilla, baking spices, a molasses a bit vegetal, there are new fruits like yellow and currants, as tempting notes of pastry and honey are detected, some solvents and rubber. 8,9:On the palate, the attack is diverse and funky with tropical fruits like pineapple, mango, esters and solvents, roasted, spicy wood with pastry, marzipan and vanilla, pepper.It comes out a bit astringent.With new wave of notes, it becomes round and delicious, creamy with citrus, yellow fruits, currants, banana, then dark chocolate, toffee, leather and a bit herbaceous, slightly bitter. 8,7:The finish is long, with at first dry and tannic roasted wood and its notes, a bit smoky, then fruity with tropical and dried fruits, grapes, as molasses is a bit dark with a licorice, slightly herbaceous.."

"Very Tasty. Lighter version of the Long Pond heavyweights, which is really fun and uncomplicated. But also already significantly more ester than the lighter Marks."

"Oh man, rum can be so delicious. This one is really impressive on the nose and palate. Is there any alcohol in it at all? A little sugar I would guess, but never mind, really top you beginners:] 193 tastes :)"

"This was a nice surprise especially because the proof has been so well integrated into this well balanced rum. A full bodied rum with all the funk that Jamaica has to offer. If you want to step up this one you'd have to go for the Cambridge 2005 :-) Price to quality is OK. "