Clairin Le Rocher

Nose - buttered movie popcorn, campfire smoke, tropical pandan leaf, flaky pastry’s, salted ice, Valentine’s Day heart candies, black pepper, salt water, taffy, buttered toast and jam, Maple syrup.

Palate - Smoke! Islay smoke, peat, rocks and minerals, fruit, papaya, a little cherry cola, sweet cane.

Finish - long finish, more smoke, hickory and peat, black pepper extract, light vegetal stuff, pop rocks, laphroaig 10.

Thoughts: This stuff rules! They use 30% dunder in each batch so this is like sweet and Smokey Jamaican influenced spirt with some Haitian veggie funk. Definitely one of my favorites.

Intensive aroma - molases and ester, smoke in the body, sweet ending

Sorry, my evaluation may not have reference value, but this is my real experience——wood soup

The nose is just a piece of work! Lots of funk and other stuff! And then the taste... pineapple, mango skin, bacon biscuit, lots of smoke, vanilla custard. Long finish too! It's just excellent and unlike anything else I've ever tried. If you can find this, try it!!

Nose: Funky yet fragrant; the kind I can nose for days. A cup of frozen yogurt with toppings of fresh blueberries and strawberries, caramel sauce, and kiwi. The blueberries, in particular, easily take over the room and stay for a while. There are also aromas of dried grass, crab roe, and tire rubber, plus undertones of buttered croissants and sliced almonds. This checks many boxes!

Palate: The mouthfeel is oily, but the flavors are not cloying or overpowering. Light and fluffy tres leches cake covered with fresh fruits. The same yogurt bowl flavors are there but lifted by a layer of herbs and honey over the surface of the tongue. Olives. As it develops, funky hints of diesel, day-old sliced bananas, and slimy pineapple shows up. Very refreshing and dessert-y.

Finish: Honey, rosemary, soy milk, and a bouquet of old bananas. Long, long, long.

Rich sweet, woody in the nose but very refreshing sweeter taste, very perfumy in taste for me

In my opinion better than the Sajous only because it’s a bit more familiar. Notes diesel which are somehow fantastic. One of my favorite rums available today.

Ultimately I bought this off the back of the recommendations on here, and I wasn't disappointed.
Drunk neat, it's intense in it's phenolic tar-i-ness. Reminds me of Ardbeg. Mixed 2 parts rum to one part soda, in a mojito, the flavour really opened up, as if everything else in there gave it space to show itself. Bit of revelation. So interesting, so rich and complex. Takes mojitos to another level.

What a nose. Vegetable stock, sugar cane juice, dried leaves, smoke, melon, pandan leaves, wood. The palate is even more novel: beef jerky, lime and pepper roast chicken, mushrooms, even a bit of herbal minerality. Wet stone. The finish is long and delicious. I am absolutely blown away.

I don't even know where to begin in describing this agricole rum.

As soon as I popped the cork my nose was overwhelmed with wonderful scents and aromas: sweet fruits, spices, grassy notes, agave and anise among other weird and wonderful smells. Sipping it is a flavor explosion but smooth on the tongue and not as harsh as the alcohol nose indicates it could be. And there is a taste that brings images of mowing the lawn while fixing the motor and drinking mescal. This is weird and wonderful and so much fun drinking.

If you want something interesting and different, look no further! Highly recommended unless you aren't adventurous and open-minded.