Hearts Collection - 1995

#12 RumXCalendar Blind tasting: Nose: tobacco, wood, minty, leather, vanilla, fruits M: spicy, woody, dark chocolate, roasted, minty F: oak, vanilla, caramel, dark chocolate Prediction: guyana (sounds like bellamy’s) approx. 45-55%…. totally wrong 🙈 Same failure again 🙈 It‘s a suprise for sure, but a welcome one! Very delicious rum! Nose: leather, woody, vanilla, minty, nutty, dark chocolate, ester, solvents, Mouth: delicious, elegant, dry, astrigend, intense, complex, woody, minty, licorice, dark chocholate, coffee, roasted Finish: medium to long, woody, oak, cigar, leather, trop. fruits, black pepper, caramel

Solvent, polish, glue and dried fruit on the nose. Animalistic. Very complex and very dirty and funky by Appleton standards. I could smell it forever. Lots of wood and liquorice on the palate, very complex. A very long, very nice finish. Great rum, I like it better than the 1999. Edit: In the glass again for a long time. It takes a long time to open up. Definitely the dirtiest and funkiest of the Hearts series and therefore a bit out of line. If EMB 1995/97 is one of your favorites, you've come to the right place.

Powerful, greedy, rather like a Guyana in spirit.

Richtig intensiver tropischer Vertreter aus Jamaica! Schwer, ganz viel Fass, dennoch fruchtig und der Funk kommt auch durch! Zwischendurch, insbesondere beim Geruch könnte man auf Demerara tippen - großes Ding!

Had a sample and needed to pour it next to the 1994. It needs a lot of time to really open up, for a long time the alcohol was overpowering together with menthol . But then the dry and fruity notes start to develop. I enjoyed every little drop until the very end of the long woody bitter-chocolate finish. It was more funky compared to the 1994, but definitely not as funky as a lot of other Jamaicans.

Much fruitier

I have finally found the perfect chocolate to reset and enhance my palate when tasting. I can recommend the 70% chocolate from Peru made from the Chuncho Bean (Trinidad). This bottle is also a really nice one and there is no doubt that it's an Appleton Estate in the nose nor the palate. A great rum probably already sold out. It was gone here in Denmark the day it was released and the bottle prices have already skyrocketed.

I like it very much. I particularly like the slightly dirty note behind the pleasant menthol, cedarwood and tobacco mix. Dried apricot and a few yellow and green fruits.

It's been a while I have not tasted an Appleton from Heart Collection. Quite similar to the 1994 vintage. Feels a bit better balanced on the palate with less wood and more round notes. Main drawback is the alcohol integration which is rather poor on the nose. Besides this, very good rum !

Opět dalši kousek z řady aplleton hearts. V porovnání se starší bráchou 1994 je za mě ovocnější, a hřejivější. Stále spousta lešťenky, která je pro appleton řekl bych typická, nebo alespoň častá, a jodně dřeve, které je zatím ve všech starších srdcích.

Im Vergleich zum 99er ne Spur erwachsener. Bei dem Finish braucht es keine Zigarre mehr. Die ist schon integriert. Nur blöd das ich nicht rauche. 😅 Es weiß aber trotzdem sehr gut zu gefallen, eben deutlich dreckigeres Profil👍 Ein bisschen vermisse ich nur etwas deutlichere Fruchtnoten im Abgang. Gibt man ihm genug Zeit wird er immer besser, von daher ein Extrapunkt 😋👌

Gefällt mir sehr gut…sehr schöne Nase…Gaumen ein wenig schwächer als die Nase…ein wenig scharf/pferrig….aber im Rahmen.

Plus à mon goût que le 1994, mais pas non plus incroyable. Toujours trop boisé, manque de la gourmandise

בקבוק מצאתי את ה95 פחות מורכב ועוצמתי מה94. איזה יופי של דברים. עדין מדובר ברום שהוא יצירת אומנות והשוני בין הבקבוקים רק משפר את החוויה. הרום הזה עצי יותר. פחות אסטרי וטרופי. יש מרירות קלה. מלח. שוקולד. גם בקבוק מעולה אבל תא כמו ב94.

Very dark notes with endless roasted aromas. Extreme chocolate note, which I like. For a better rating, however, I miss the fruit. Even blind a clear assignment of the Appleton Distillery