Depaz Grande Reserve XO Blue Label 8-Year

This is delicious. Really, really delicious. Grassy, burny, little bit smokey, little brown sugar but real dry. I’m a big fan. It’s really, really nice.

I’m absolutely not getting liquorice like everyone else.

Jedná se o blend 8 - 10 let starých rumů dostařovaných v sudech po koňaku.

Aroma: Bylinky, výrazně květinové, travnaté
Chuť: Příjemná, medově ostrá, lehce štiplavá dřevitost
Dozvuk: Bylinky, lehce minerální, závan sušeného ovoce, středně dlouhý
Sladkost: 1/3
Vzorek #1 na RumFest Praha 2021
Klasický agricole a klasicky dobrý.

The Depaz Rhum Hors d'Age XO is made from sugar cane instead of molasses. It is a blend of different rums that are between eight and ten years old. The sweetness of the sugar cane juice gives it a particularly mild and pleasant taste. Nosing revelas chocolate and liquorice in the foreground, followed by vanilla and hints of plums. Palate is complex, dry entry with a lot of spicy charred oak which meets fine vanilla notes and fruits. Finish has medium length, bittersweet notes with exotic fruits paired with caramel and oak notes. Real grade is 8,5.

Oh, too much aniseed/liquorice at the start makes you think you're on the sambuca! Luckily it makes way to complex fresh cane juice flavours with a mocha, praline, dry woody finish. Expensive at £70 but you can taste the complexity and appreciate the craft. I'm being kind giving an 8 though. Starts badly, ends well.

Très beau rhum de dégustation, que j'ai reçu en cadeau d'un ami qui me l'a rapporté directement de la Martinique.

Aroma - smooth with fruits, caramel and apple tones. Taste is also smooth with wood and grass, nicely rounded. Aftertaste could be a bit longer. 8,5 points.

Dès le premier nez le rhum Agricole se reconnaît immédiatement, la canne est puissante, le boisé bien présent.
En bouche l attaque est très appréciable, rhum très équilibré, les 45° ne sont pas du tout agressifs. Le boisé et la canne sont toujours bien présents. Avec également des notes d epices que l on retrouve sur la finale, qui est assez longue.

Al naso è lievemente pungente con note di frutti rossi acerbi e altri tropicali, legno verniciato, tabacco, cuoio e cacao.
Al palato è coerente col naso e ripresenta tutti gli stessi aromi con aggiunta di spezie, datteri, leggera tostatura e un po' di vino rosso (aperto da ore) nel finale. La consistenza è leggera e vivace, nonostante non sia profondo, sorprende per la sua delicatezza e la sua personalità (oggettivamente il voto è un po' più basso). Nel bicchiere vuoto sentori stagionati intensi.

Schöne Bernstein Farbe, im Geruch Obst, gedörrte Früchte, Alkohol
Geschmack am Anfang Grastöne, Dörrobst, Birne, Melassetöne, und
im Abgang bleibt eine kleine Holznote mit Alkohol.

Fazit: sehr guter trockener Agricole !

Perfect daily agricole for all palates - smooth and rich with not so long taste but perfect nose !