RA Barbados Rum Rockley Style BBR

honeyed, smoky, tropical complexity

Exceptional complexity
Intense honey
Alcohol well integrated
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Layered honey, mango and vanilla with gentle, medicinal smoke; creamy, oily texture and superbly integrated ABV. Reviewers call it intensely complex and beautifully balanced.

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    How does this rum taste?

    RumX members praise this 1986 Rockley Style for its extraordinary honeyed profile, elegant smoke, and tropical fruit depth. The nose bursts with mango, vanilla and beeswax; the palate is creamy, oily and complex with seamless 53.7% ABV. Distilled at West Indies and aged 34 years, it’s a limited 162-bottle cask strength release often savored slowly—many say it blossoms with time. A popular, strongly endorsed pick on RumX.

    Aroma

    Smoky Honey Vanilla Barrel

    Taste

    Honey Smoky Complex Mango

    How is this rum rated?

    9.3/10 73 reviews
    Top 1% Barbados
    Top 1% West Indies

    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!🙏🇧🇧💥💣

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    Details about this rum

    Country
    Distillery
    Brand
    Rum Artesanal
    RumX ID
    RX7784
    ABV
    53,7%
    Category
    Pot Still Rum
    Vintage
    1986
    Cask number
    #210
    Mark
    BBR
    Made from
    Molasses
    Distillation
    Rockley Still
    Age
    34 years 1mo
    No. of bottles
    162
    Bottle volume
    50cl
    Price range
    250€+
    Type of spirit
    Rum
    Heinz Eggert GmbH • West Indies 1986   34yr   53,7% Rum Artesanal Barbados Rum Rockley Style BBR

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    About the West Indies distillery

    The West Indies distillery is located in Barbados. Rums from West Indies have been reviewed 4,119 times with an average of 7.9/10.

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