RA Barbados Rum Rockley Style BBR
honeyed, smoky, tropical complexity
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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.
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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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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!🙏🇧🇧💥💣