Chamarel VSOP 4-Year

First taste from this brand, this 4 years old is a good introduction. Nice vegetal notes with oak, sweet but with a robust body. For me, just missing some personnality. By the way, it's a good job from Chamarel.

Not my cup of tea. On the nose you can already smell smoke and vanilla with caramel. It is very close to whiskey aromas. Taste is following the nose pallete with flavours of vanilla, caramel, oak and lot of smoke. In a blind test I would say it is whiskey.

I've never tasted a rum from Mauritius before so I was excited to give this one a try. A nice nose of oak and small hints of vanilla. The first taste goes down very dry (which isn't a bad thing) with strong taste of oak and a little cinnamon. The lasting taste is of oak. Overall I was pleasantly surprised by this rum and this distiller and will definitely look for their other offerings in the future.

Very strength at beginning and sweet vanilla finish. Not bad.

Strength - 8/10
Sweetness - 2.5/10

Ok men inget speciellt. Gillar inte doften men smaken något bättre.

Un rhum plutôt rond et doux avec des note de caramel

the nose I can recognize oak, vanilla, and something of a white wine scent. There are similar notes on the tongue with a whiskey note as well. There is a dry finish with long lasting flavor. Not my favorite but not terrible.

Notes of vanilla, wood, sugarcane, pear, dried fruit, spice, vanilla and wood.

Junger, frischer Agricole Rhum
Deutlicher Zuckerrohr Geschmack und fein süssliche Note.

Tasted just a sample, so this is just my first impressions. Don’t think I will dig deeper into it because it wasn’t special enough.
It’s the first rum I have tasted that origins from outside the Caribbean.
It’s an Agricole and they grow their own sugar cane on the island. The rum consists of 10% from a pot still and the rest from a column still. Then it’s aged for 4-6 years individually in ex-American and ex-French oak barrels before blended.
In the nose I can recognize oak, vanilla, butterscotch and herbal notes. These flavors is also notable on the palate and during the quite long finish which is rather dry.
Overall I think it’s to little of everything in this rum to catch me for further digging.
Picture: My emptied sample.