Background Image
Preload image
Westerhall Plantation rum

Westerhall Plantation

Grenada | Gold

7.1/10
20 ratings
Recommendable to most
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
1
4
4
10
1

Rate Westerhall Plantation

Tap to Rate

Advert Image

Advertisement | Go Premium to remove

20 Westerhall Plantation Ratings

Sort by: Popularity | Newest | Oldest | Rating

Skipjack 🇺🇸 | 20 ratings
Posted 9 years ago

I first tasted this rum at the Bitter End Yacht Club in the BVI's and due to the excitement of the day of small boat sailing and a breezy day of hiking, I really loved it. This proves that many things impact your taste buds as I'm not nearly as enamored with this rum at home as I was standing in a open beach bar staring out across the sea.

Bottle: A classy update on old school labels including the melted wax over the syn-cork topper. It has a nautical look without looking out of date. I like the bottle a lot.
Color: Golden
Bottle Aroma: I rarely see anyone say that a rum has a maple syrup nose or flavor to it, perhaps that is looked down upon, but not to my nose. I really like the smell of this rum, it makes me want to make a concoction for serving with waffles.
Glass Aroma: The rum now steps out behind the cognac like smells in the bottle and you have a pleasant presentation that is building expectations.
Taste: When it first hits, you immediately have heat but give it time as it will dissipate and leave you with a layer of sweet flavor that slowly dries and become oaky with hints of other spices. What a great little rum.

I like this rum and I obviously loved it when we first met. But there is something about that hit of heat that turns me off and the final aftertaste does not make me want more. I suspect that second comment is specific to my palate and other drinkers will not experience this rum the same. I recommend trying it though, you might find it on your shelf afterwards.

This is a pressed sugar cane rum which surprises me a little as it has little of the agricole flavors I would expect to come with it.

mistercoughy 🇺🇸 | 239 ratings
Posted almost 8 years ago

I like this rum. The aromas of freshly baked pound cake and vanilla cream are tempered by fairly strong, but not unpleasant, alcohol overtones. The cake comes through in the tasting along with pepper, vanilla and honey. Very nice. Deceptively light in color and body, but there's a lot going on here.

Kieron wood 🇬🇧 | 621 ratings
Posted almost 7 years ago

This is not a great rum but is still drinkable. It's a raw rum with nothing flavour wise added. Still has a decent body but just doesn't rock my world I'm afraid ..

Beukeboom 🇺🇸 | 304 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

One comment before I offer my opinions on the rum. I like bottles with wax seals. Gives the bottle an "old school" appeal. But apparently my bottle got a double-dose of navy blue wax making it pretty difficult to open. However when I got it open, I smelled the opening to see what lay in store. It smelled more of plastic but I quickly concluded that aroma was from the double-dose of wax seal rather than the rum itself. Even in a glass the aroma was very subtle...almost nonexistent. This rum was recommended to me by the clerk in the Port St. Joe, Florida liquor store. He said this rum was the only thing the owner of the store drank and so I purchased a bottle since they didn't have the brand of rum I was looking for. This rum is about as golden in color as one can find. Definitely an initial sweetness in flavor followed quickly by some spiciness then the burn...a long, slow burn (it's 43% ABV). Interestingly enough once the burn finally faded I noticed a woodiness to the flavor I presume is from the oak barrels in which it is aged. I can see why the owner of the liquor store likes this so much. Although not my favorite, I feel this is an excellent rum which happens to be extremely versatile. Makes for a good sipping rum as well as a mixer. It definitely adds a good flavor to Coke Zero.

Bill Rogers 🇺🇸 | 33 ratings
Posted 9 years ago

Great go-to rum for those quiet times. Smooth body, wide profile that will always please.

steve 🇺🇸 | 1 rating
Posted 9 years ago

This is one of my favorite light bodied rums. On a hot summer day love to pour a glass and add a few cubes. Find it very smooth and has a wide flavor profile. Pick up motes of toffee, caramel, banana and then a hint of cocoa bean on the back palate,

Mo McGurk 🇺🇸 | 250 ratings
Posted 2 years ago

It’s always hit or miss when one buys a bottle of rum at a hole in the wall liquor store that doesn’t look to sell a lot of rum. This one was a miss. Started with the cork residue on the bottle neck and went from there to the taste. Nothing unpleasant. Just nothing really good either. At least there wasn’t much of an afterburn, and not too much cork ended up in my glass. Perhaps a higher rating if the experience was a better one.

Goudje 🇳🇱 | 1 rating
Posted over 2 years ago

Nice and smooth. First zip. Perfect. I love the after taste

The Lone Caner 🇨🇦 | 5 ratings
Posted over 2 years ago

This rum, issued at a relatively sedate 43% ABV, dates from the early 2000s, and is therefore from Angostura stocks only: aside from some batch variation, there’s little to distinguish it taste-wise from either earlier or later rums, and consistency has been maintained quite well. The nose is probably the best thing about it: thin, yet quite distinct (always a plus with me), redolent of brine and olives, and set off by a crisp, light, fruity aspect. Behind it lurk notes of paint, acetones, nail polish, and a nice blend of tart-sour fruits like five-finger, star-apple, gooseberries and green mangoes, with just enough sweet to mitigate the lip puckering. It does become somewhat lighter and sweeter as it opens up, and there’s even a trace of sugar water at the tail end.

Palate is nice, just uneventful - much of the nose is lost in the light easiness of the way it tastes and “watery” is not a word that would be out of place here. There are traces of peaches, apricots, bananas and green peas(!!), and some of the brininess and olives carry over; also dates and some very light citrus and vinegar-like hints, not enough to derail the experience. It retains the light sweet crispness that the nose promises, and if the finish was kind of brief - warm, dry, salty with a touch of fruits and sweet soya - well, you know what, as a whole the rum kind of works, and is not a disappointment.

What it does is actually remind me somewhat of the Whisper Antigua rum, also an unpretentious rum aged a few years. Perhaps that’s because it doesn’t try too hard to be some kind of uber-sexy blend from a world famous distillery backed up by a snazzy marketing campaign sporting a celebrity (from within or without the rumworld) to raise awareness. It’s just a decent light five year old. (81 points)

Sinsipper 🇺🇸 | 1 rating
Posted 5 years ago

I was at the ancient structure the rum is made in about thirty years ago. An amazing place to see. You walked into the past when I was there. It was small, intimate and very basic. A true artisan rum. I have bottles that are from that time. The rum is a true sipper. If you don’t rinse the glass the next day it has a nose of pure butter scotch.

Mark 🇨🇦 | 59 ratings
Posted almost 6 years ago

With it's pale golden colour, this rum looks more like a Chardonnay wine than a rum. The blue waxed bottle top gives this rum great packaging. Opening the bottle, the rum had only a very faint alcohol citrus scent... Sipping it straight was possible, although it provided little flavour and was accompanied by a slow burn. Easy to drink with an ice cube and some coconut water. This rum tasted like no other rum I've tried, although I can't say that I would recommend it.




Brand Details

Name: Plantation
Type: Westerhall
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Unknown
Distillation: Unknown
Women leading Rum: No

Professional Reviews

Articles