Clarkes Court Old Grog

Truly the fruitless rum I've ever tasted. Can be difficult to find but well worth picking it up if you can. Very unique from other rums. One of the lightest I've experienced as well.

je me laisse encore du temps pour l évaluer... a venir

Nez présent avec des arômes d’épices. Raffiné pour le prix et assez doux en bouche. Pas trop sucré, belle découverte

This rum is produced by Grenada Distillers Ltd, but when it started up in 1937 they was just a part of the Grenada Sugar Factory established in 1936. The business was established at the Woodlands Estate which includes Clarke’s Court Bay.
Around 1959 they stopped producing sugar, cause it wasn’t economically viable anymore. Around 1960 became Clarke’s Court the name of the rum.
Over the years they have used a mix of own cane syrup and molasses and bought molasses. Initially they used molasses from Guyana, nowadays they buy their molasses from Panama.
After the hurricane Ivan in 2004 they was forced to relay on only bought molasses if they should go on producing rum, cause Ivan destroyed most of the sugar cane fields in the island.
After 3-4 days of fermentation they distill it in a twin-column Coffey still. Thereafter it’s aged in ex-bourbon oak barrels before blended and bottled. The blend consists of rum aged between four and ten years.
I think the label in itself makes this rum earning its place at my rum shelf, but I also really like it. It’s a very good everyday rum to bring to the table with lots of bananas, citrus, nutmeg and other spices in nose and taste as well as during the finish.
It’s nice with the nutmeg and the other spices cause it comes from the island of spices.
Overall it’s very special and the only rum I can remember with somewhat similar tastes is the Six Saints, also distilled by GDL.
Grenada rum is unfortunately more or less impossible to find in Sweden, so I have bought my bottles from the UK.
About the name GROG, it’s an abbreviation for Georgius Rex Old Grenada in order to identify it as His Majesty’s George III of England rum.
Pictures: My Grenada shelf & My bar display with my Spanish styled Ron and some English styled in the front.

First of all I love the cloth sack it comes in - Nice! That said the bottle label is nice too - I'm a sucker for pictures of old time sailing ships.
This rum has a beautiful golden colour with a slight reddish hue. It has a nice syrupy smell accompanied by spices and vanilla with only a hint of alcohol. Sipping it straight was harsh at first, but it actually quite smooth with only a mild burn. This rum makes an excellent mixer with cola - A perfect light balance of spice and fruit (I thought of citrus, although I'm reading people say banana - Hmnnn).

Facile à boire, un peu boisé et épicé. Une belle découverte.

Had à tour at the distillery when visiting grenada. Picked up a small bottle of this one, should have took a big one!
Very wel balanced & smooth, overclasses a lot of more aged rums i had.
If you can get it, pick it up and try it

went to where it is made had a tour and some tastings it was a great experience the rum is smooth and has nice finish

N- Blackforest banana mousse cake garnished with strawberry and berry compote with drizzles of rich molasses, cotton candy floss sweetened hot coffee to go with it too. Sounds sweet? Indeed, but is not just sugar despite the rather intense cola sweetness. Whiff of strong nutmeg and chinese herb oilmen to keep it fresh. (85/19)

P- Not as fresh and charm as the aroma, thin over smoky oak, herb oilmen still presents and keep it quite comfort on palate. But then soapy and menthol gum emerge that feel rather artificial. (82/17)

F- Short, diluted oak juice, soft, harmless with lingering red fruits. (83/18)

B/B- 83/18

Weighted Rate- 72pt
— at The Rum Bar KL.

This rum is very nice; light bite with good flavor. I cannot tell exactly what's going on with certain tasting notes, but it is good.