RA Barbados Rum Rockley Style BBR 1986

Head-to-head with the Silver Seal and for me a nose ahead - although this can turn out the other way around at the next comparison. Here, too, smoke, honey, fresh fruitiness, plus green notes - the all-round pampering program for aficionados, which makes every tasting a star hour of rum. Always a pleasure!

Benchmark Rockley! ❤️A liquid dream!Compared to the SS, Nobilis and Plantation, it has both the best nose and the best palate. Very nice roundness, alcohol top integrated, some smoke, but overall a honey monster!

Incredibly intense on the nose and palate, plus creamy and oily. A real great drink flow that the rum Artesanal could create if you had more of it. A really beautiful rum that clearly showed us why there was so much hype around this bottling. The complexity in conjunction with the pronounced sweetness is also something very special in this W.I.R.D.

by far the most complex of the 8 1986 Rockleys I know. incredibly creamy, drinkable & harmonious. For me, on a par with the silver Seal, even if it is stylistically somewhat different. but this combination of mango, papaya, allspice, olives, vanilla and fresh acacia honey with creme brulee, sandalwood and tonka/vanilla is simply gigantic! Hammer! absolutely brilliant stuff, chapeau to RA, you delivered great cinema here back then!🙏🇧🇧💥💣

What a grenade ... words fail me ! A rum for the whole evening ... enjoyment and amazement in the glass! Incredibly complex mango, papaya and honey with a hint of smoke. One of the best bottlings from the master Dominik Marwede... too bad that this chapter is over.

One of the world's best rums fällig? For me, this applies to this one in many respects, even objectively considered. Because what the perfectly selected barrel in fasst 35 perfect years here with the rum has organized, is just madness and definitely liquid gold.After about three quarters of an hour, you get here in the form of intense honey, beeswax, pine needles, resin, mango, vanilla and smoke Rockley essence presented...and in its most intense form. Not an ounce of alcohol here tangents this outstanding aroma package. The palate is incredibly oily, sweet, velvety, warm and not a trace of alcohol. The only thing that keeps me here from 100 points, are the perhaps 4% too little ABV and that the world's best PMs according to my gusto are again somewhat more complete

Amazing Rockley Style from well known 1986 vintage. I would just expect more funkyness to rate it above 90/100

This rum is almost surreal. The alcohol is so well integrated here that you can fully engage in a relaxed aroma journey through a flower meadow, a forest and a plantation with tropical fruits.

An incredibly fine droplet. Thanks for the sample @ Domi

der RA 86er im Vergleich mit dem Nobilis 86er. Beide mit dieser einzigartigen kräutrigen, medizinischen, blumigen Rauch-Honig-Note an der Nase. Beim Nobilis habe ich noch Orangenschale. Der RA wirkt etwas kantiger bzw. ausdrucksstärker, und das obwohl der Nobilis etwas höher beim ABV ist. Am Gaumen beide getoastes Fass, Grapefruit.

Rockley Tasting 1986/87/2000 Absolut grossartiger Rockley. Für mich die beste Abfüllung.

Sweet vanilla, floral woody on tongue that I have tasted never before EDIT: soo technical and fruity on nose. Glue, peaches, flowers, vanilla, wood on tounge. And sooo fresh! This one is the best WIRD 86 among all I have tasted.

Danke, liebes RA Team 🥃👍🏻

Online tasting from Rum Depot: Brutally good stuff that is difficult to describe. In particular, the nose is so horny and complex that I digressed again and again while sniffing and did not get what Dominik Marwede actually tells. Even the finish develops first and becomes more intense. A rum with a great name, which he rightly carries!

Als erstes leicht rauchig, dezent süss, etwas erdiges auch. Weisser Pfeffer, Ingwer, cremig, medizinal, gelbe Früchte und natürlich Honig und Rauch. Alkohol nicht schmeckbar. Sehr langer Abgang, wenn auch nicht mega kraftvoll, sehr elegant. Braucht Zeit im Glas. Insgesamt bleibt er für mich etwas hinter den Erwartungen…im Vergleich auch zu anderen heute probierte Hochkarätern.