Doorly's 14-Year

I finally managed to fetch myself this nice little treasure! Cost me a bit more (98 euros total pricing), but now that i am savoring the thing, it was actually well-worth it! The box is craftily designed and highly original. Color of the liquid is magnificent and eye-catching. The smell is deep, clean and subtle, not strong, but very pleasing nonetheless, refined and sophisticated. The texture feels extremely smooth, velvety, without harshness, despite the high alcohol percentage. It goes down merrily, simply feels great to drink! Warms your throat inside out and while exhaling, a unique feeling of euphoria overcomes you, momentarily dominating your senses! The lingering aftertaste is outstanding and remains for quite some time post your sip, filling your mouth with an unparalleled, blissful sensation! This is a real winner and absolutely fabulous! Highly recommended! Special thanks are in order, to the people who insisted for me to buy this one first, before the other rums in my list!!!

Doorly's 12 year is one of my favourite rums and i was hoping this would be as good or even better. I was not disappointed! This actually tastes even slightly better than the 12 year and still has a wonderful finish that seems to last throughout. Overall this is a fantastic rum and i look forward to buying a bottle.

Zajímavý chuťově i vůní. Nevím jak jej přesně charakterizovat, chutná mi docela dost, ale přece jen XO 40% je pro mne jemnější a chutnější. Snad se to obrátí a tento mi bude chutnat více.

A Doorlys with 48%, I expect this one to be good.
Oh yes, the nose is a typical Foursquare. Very rich, balanced and intensive. There is a caramel note, it improves the common aromas of wood, orange, dry fruits. This is a very good nose.

The taste is also very good. The aromas are very pronounced and the complexity is there. The abv was choosen very well. It's not very spicy, I can enjoy all flavors, very nice is again the caramel and dry fruit flavour in combination with typical Barbados notes. The orange is very intensive and tasty.
I like this one much more than Doorlys XO (43%). It's much better in my opinion and very smooth without any additives. Therefore 87 points. For a better rating I would prefere more abv.

Nose: wood, dry fruits (plum) and orange, grapes, barrel/earth, caramel, some spices like pepper, nutmed
Taste: caramel with orange, peach flavor, dry fruits, oak, tannins
Middle: caramel again, dry fruit (plum), cherries, orange, grapes, vanilla, white oak
Finish: some spice, dry orange peels, wood and vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon

Sweetness: 2/5
Fruits: 3/5
Spice: 2/5
Mildness: 4/5
Complexity: 3.5/5
Value (65€): 4/5

Skvelý rum,rovnaký chuťový profil ako pri Sagacity. Výborné ,pohodové pitie. Vždy si ho rád dám znova.

If you know Foursquare, you know you won't find anything overly sweet in their portfolio. However, sometimes the dry oaky elements tend to negate the smoothness that should be a part of rums this age. However, Doorly's 14 is something completely different. It's one of the smoothest dry rums I have ever tried. If you don't like sweet rums, but you are intimidated by the harshness of some dry oaky rums, this one is deffinitely for you. You can even find some cocoa notes in there, which just underlines the whole profile. Amazing!

The bottle is very attractive, the saturated colors of the parrot motif invoke the atmosphere of tropical nature, Caribbean, warm weather and bright sun. The shape of the bottle is old-school, squat, curvy, topped with artificial cork embedded in plastic (no problem for me, there is not enough genuine cork for all the booze in the world).

The aroma originally is very muted, distant, dominated by a focused sweet note - candied apples, marmalade, canned pumpkin, after adding a bit of water (the rum is bottled at 48 percent), the aroma slowly unfolds with more acrid, acidic notes of soft wood.

On the palate, the entry is surprisingly, but delicately sweet (knowing Mr. Seale's production and attitude towards additives, I expect an austere, bone dry experience), but now, sweetness continues to develop along the toffee, milky, caramel lines towards a slightly bitter, woody finish, but much less bitter than one would expect after full 14 years of tropical aging. You will find no traces of those "teabags left in too long" ultra bitter tones of low quality rums, these are no tired casks with just bitter tannins left after years and years of abuse, but obviously an expertly selected vessels that imparted rather delicious gifts during their contact with the distillate.

The finish is warming, long, delicate, only slightly astringent and bitter, but almost feminine and soft in intensity.

Overall, this rum is a rather pleasant surprise, and after clicking between 9 and 10, back and forth, yes, I am giving it 10 finally - I usually give 10 only to rums that brings something original to the table, which IMO is not the case here, but this rum is exceptionally well-made, and I have to respect that.

Jolly well done!

Great balance of sweetness, flavours, strength. Everything. Smooth, brilliant.

Lighter aroma. Taste is complex, starting with wood ending with fruity, citrus tones. Aftertaste is longer and pleasant.

I love the XO and 12yr and was looking forward to this one hitting the uk. Was left a bit underwhelmed, so much so that when I tried it at a tasting I didn’t even buy a bottle with the 10% discount on offer. For the money as far as FourSquare goes the Zinfandel cask has been the best bang for buck.