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Following up on our assessment of Haiti-based Rhum Barbancourt’s 15 Years Old expression, we push downmarket a bit right into a extra available bottling, Barbancourt 8 Years Outdated, often known as Rhum Barbancourt Reserve Speciale 5 Stars.
As with all Barbancourt expressions, that is an agricole-style rum constituted of contemporary sugar cane juice (not molasses), double distilled in copper pots. It spends 8 years in French oak earlier than bottling.
Few surprises are to be discovered on the nostril, which is sharp and aggressive for a while, at the least till the boozy vapors blow off. Notes of hogo, pink wine should, and coconut husks give the rum a sure pungency, whereas a touch of butterscotch sweetens issues up.
The palate twists issues round, exhibiting a surprisingly elegant and sophisticated spirit that options notes of caramel, darkish chocolate, and baking spice, plus an ample layer of barrel char. The rum turns moderately grassy from there, although the hogo funk retains issues ruddy and a bit chewy. The end is a mixture of sweetness with a touch of nuttiness, together with some animalistic gravitas.
Altogether it’s an inexpensive and approachable bottling that works greatest as a mixer when aged agricole — and that unmistakable contact of funk — is required in your cocktail.
86 proof.
B+ / $25 / crillonimportersltd.com [BUY IT NOW FROM CASKERS]
Rhum Barbancourt 8 Years Outdated
$25
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