Smith and Cross Traditional Jamaica Navy Strength

Some good funk mixability potential, makes one hell of a hurricane. Unfortunately it's a bit frisky to be had neat, and if you add water it gets really bitter really fast.

Nose: overripe tropical fruit, especially pineapple and mango.
Taste: again tropical fruit, tobacco, burnt butter, chewing gum and kimchi. Don't fact check me on that.
After taste: medium, tropical fruit and tobacco.
TLDR: pineapple left in the fridge for a couple of months.

And yes, the bottle is sexy.

Les rhums de la Jamaïque ne sont vraiment pas dans ma palette. Au goût épicé poivré.

To funky to do it even in simple cocktails. Tiki only.

This rum is good is so many ways. First, since it's full of funk, it's a great rum to add depth to cocktails. Next, on its own it's a pretty good sipper even you're a fan of the high ester. And lastly you can't be the value for how inexpensive it is compared to so many other rums.

It is a good rum, mostly, but the grassy and medicinal notes are pretty notably, which is a taste I have yet to learn to like. The funk is otherwise nice, but I can't get fully past the grass, which is a turnoff for me.

I might come back and rate this higher, but for now I can't. I will say it is surprisingly smooth and easy to drink for a 57% spirit.

Smith and Cross has become an indispensable rum which will always be replaced in my bar when a bottle runs dry. This is a non-chill filtered, 114 proof beauty. This rum has exotic fruits and Jamaican funk. It has a peanut almost pecan in the pallet to me once the bottle has been open for a month or two. This rum is going to shine in tiki cocktails and it will replace every regular 2 oz pour of Jamaican 40% with just one ounce and that justifies the $40 cost in itself. Over an ice cube the rotting fruits come through, to me like nutty pear but more exotic like a fruit from a Jamaica trip. It is distilled in Jamaica and bottled in London. Amazing! Get a bottle and use it in your cocktails, or even sip it over an ice cube. This is not a neat sipper for me and my personal pallet. Recommended to make a bitter Mai Tai with 1 oz of this, 1 oz of Puerto Rican column still such as Bacardi 8, and 1 oz of campari, orgeat and lime, crushed ice, shake, double old fashioned, garnish with mint.

Saw a lot of people raving about this. Maybe a bit out of my depth for a first rum purchase. Incredibly strong but I kind of like it? I'm pretty sure I felt my brain reset.

You can’t find a rum much better than this one. So good

Smooth mouth feel with short burn in the throat before a warm lingering finish. FUNK, butter, brown sugar, and molasses flavors, followed by oak and vanilla on the finish. A must have in any collection, even if just for a conversation starter with another rum lover.

Love the funk on this rum. I could taste it every once in a while throughout the next day. Couldnt get enough