RA Barbados Rum Rockley Style BBR 1986
World‑class Rockley: ultra‑integrated ABV, creamy honey sweetness, subtle smoke and complex tropical-fruity, medicinal notes. Widely rated as a benchmark Barbados and nearly perfect by enthusiasts.
Seasoned rum geeks chasing benchmark Rockley-style WIRD 1986 profiles with huge honey, subtle smoke, medicinal herbs and tropical fruit at cask strength, and who appreciate rare, contemplative sippers.
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Benchmark honey‑smoky Rockley legend
If you love high-end WIRD 1986 or Rockley-style bottlings, this is the one people compare all others to—massive honey-smoky complexity, yet incredibly smooth for the proof.
Beginners, value seekers, or drinkers who dislike medicinal/herbal notes, pronounced honey sweetness, or paying premium prices for very limited, hype-driven bottlings.
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.
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About the West Indies distillery
The West Indies distillery is located in Barbados. Rums from West Indies have been reviewed 4,599 times with an average of 7.9/10.
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Pretty much perfect. One of the very best rums I could taste to date. A bit more medicinal in the nose than I'm used to from Barbados. Alcohol is perfectly integrated. The whole thing is extremely well balanced.
Das war DER nahezu perfekte Rum
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
Diese Honigsüße ist der Wahnsinn. Vom Geschmacksprofil total anders... Leichte Zitrusfrüchte sind zu schmecken. Im Abgang eine wunderbare dezente Rauchnote