Ryoma 7-Year

The bottle is quite attractive with its minimalist design, resembling those ceramic bottles sake is poured from we all know from old black and white Japanese movies.

In the glass, the color is pale straw yellow, obviously a natural color obtained just by barrel aging, so points for that! Stern contrast with certain brands that are aged for a few years, yet resemble maple syrup due to heavy caramel dose.

The nose is delicate, vegetal, grassy, and earthy, wet grass, moss.

On the palate, this rum is very delicate and complex, resembling agricole rhums, but much less assertive, with a distinct brine note, but perfectly harmonious. There is an underlying hint of a sweet note, resembling a fleeting smile of a sympathetic stranger.

The finish is warm and medium-length.

This is a very clean-tasting honest rum, without any additives, sugars, fruit extracts and suspicious wine cask "finishes" many producers use to cater for the popular cravings for sweet taste. Beginners will tell you that it's "raw" and "young", because their taste buds are pampered with loads of sugar and other additives they are used to, but don't listen to that - in this rum, you are tasting the pure distilled cane spirit
aged in oak barrels, nothing more, but also nothing less.

Therefore, I am compelled to give this rum the perfect score. It won't please everyone, but neither will an original book or a daring painting.

This rum goes its own way, regardless of opinions of others, and that is something I must appreciate. We need more rums like this.

barva : sláma
vune techničtější, vstup do lekárny :)
chut: překvapivá sladkost, techincká chut precházející lehce nepříjemně do chemické chuti
zaver : umělý
hodnoceni 8,3
koupit ano z 50%
Alcohol 40 %

The smoky smell lingers for quite a while in the glass, really a rum (Cachaça) you should try

Smetana, karamel, příjemné dřevo, plus trocha jódu nebo voňavé lékárny. Celkem mě to bavilo. Bodů 85.

En dejlig mild rum agricole fra noget så eksotisk som japan

This rum was a very pleasant surprise for 7-year rum. Nice balanced taste, beautiful sugar cane smell. I do not understand why this rum has so low rating here.

At first pour a simple afair, with a simple sugar cane nose like an agricole, but give it a bit of time in glass and you get wonderful forest fruit and bourbon barrel flavors.

Je n'ai pas vraiment apprécié au nez ! Il a une trop forte odeur qui ne ressemble en rien à du rhum ! On dirait de l'alcool pur... Par contre j'ai été agréablement surpris par son goût ! La bouche est longue et sucrée, on sent bien le coco ! A essayer au moins une fois !
I have not really enjoyed the nose ! It has a too strong odor that not looks like a rum ! It looks like pure alcohol ! But I was pleasantlysurprised by the taste ! Long and sweet, and we feel the coconut ! To try at least once !

First of all, I think all the ones who compare it to Sake never drunk Sake of their life.
Just because it's from Japan then it tastes like Sake, BS. I drunk enough of Sake in Japan to say I have never found one similar in taste.

Instead, and I guess it's where many get confused, the smell and first taste (and even the colour) are very much similar to a good grappa (Italian spirit).
After few seconds, then you will start to taste some sugar cane.

My only issue is its price, way too expensive (especially if you compare with prices of Grappas), but it's a very enjoyable rum.

This is a very light, delicate rum that mainly tastes like sugarcane juice and something vegetal. The Rosebank of rums? Quite possibly. Pretty.