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Posted
over 8 years ago
Un très bon rhum agricole, pas trop fort, un arôme complexe boisé et épicé avec une belle longueur. Une valeur sûr du rhum martiniquais.
Posted
almost 9 years ago
I've had a number of agricoles, and haven't been overly impressed with any of them... until I tried this. This is a complex rhum, which smells of oak, toffee, honey, tobacco, sugar, brown sugar, and a light peppery spice. Taste is equally complex. It's a bit strong at 44%abv, but rhums this good should be a bit stronger, without any water or ice to take away from their goodness. If you're not an agricole fan (which I'm not), I'm guessing you'll really like this one anyway.
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My taste does not run to agricoles, as thorough readers of this site will have noticed. I appreciate what the French islands are trying to do, and the others I've tried - Clement 5 Year, Barbancourt - meet clear quality standards. But, early on I decided I want to appreciate rum for its rum-ness, not its ability to taste like fine cognac.
Still, I had a chance to try the XO and it changed my mind about what an agricole rum can be (well, as it should for the $100/btl price). The off-gold color signals its difference from the products of the non-AOC islands. The bottle is magnificent, the swirl in the glass perhaps even more so. And the finish was almost perfect.
The aroma and mouth-feel, though, take me back to my cognac days. Yes, I could love this in that way. I could forget it was rum. And I'd put this among the better cognacs I've tasted, which leads me to rate this highly.
The trouble is, I don't prefer this flavor. If you enjoy cognac, this is your rum. If not, I'd avoid the agricoles and look to the molasses-based rums of other islands for excitement.