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Barbancourt 5 Star Reserve Especiale 8-Year rum

Barbancourt 5 Star Reserve Especiale 8-Year

Haiti | Aged

Barbancourt 5 Star Reserve Especiale 8-Year Rum is agricultural, meaning it's produced from fermented sugar cane juice rather than the more typical molasses. The sugar cane juice is double distilled and aged for eight years in Limousin oak barrels.

Dupré Barbancourt created the Barbancourt rum recipe in 1862 in Haiti, where the rum is still produced today. A French national, Barbancourt incorporated traditional French methods including double-distillation in the process.

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246 ratings
Tasty, but not quite great
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246 Barbancourt 5 Star Reserve Especiale 8-Year Ratings

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Andy (PREMIUM) 🇺🇸 | 142 ratings
Posted 10 years ago

Not a great nose, but really pleasant taste. Not an overwhelming grassy taste common with some agricoles. Just the right amount of slight spice, short to medium finish with some leftover oil.

Tomazet 🇫🇷 | 16 ratings
Posted 9 years ago

Bon rhum sans conteste, mais sans surprise non plus si ce n'est que pour un viel agricole je l'ai trouvé relativement ''doux''. A tester.

LD 🇮🇹 | 34 ratings
Posted 9 years ago

This rum is undrinkable!
its smell is synthetic, like a solvent. Its taste is very strange: medicine, sour, a little iron, very tannic and you have the feeling that the mouth to fall asleep! Not recommended.

Norup 🇩🇰 | 60 ratings
Posted 9 years ago

ikke nogen stor rom, da smagen ikke er så nuanceret. Men den er dejlig. Frisk, med en snert af citrongræs!

delecluse 🇻🇺 | 6 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

Kelleti rum.
Billoy verga succa appetae.
Sinodid nea tao kelleti.

Tito Jackson 🇺🇸 | 28 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

Easy to sip. Nice introduction to those who may not have had an agricole.

shelteredexistence 🇺🇸 | 49 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

I don't know about how it is where you live, but these agricoles are pricey where I am. Damn, those French have got it made. Well, Haitians actually in this case (a former French colony). Thus, I am inclined to judge this rum more harshly than I might otherwise, given four of my favorite rums are at this price-point locally.

Having been a cognac drinker, one can easily ascertain the link to the rhum agricole variant of rum production. Once you understand the (well-defined) production process, you know what flavors you're going to get. And you get them here. On those merits, one can see why this rum is so popular among agricole drinkers.

Still, to my taste, this agricole did not significantly stand apart from the 5 Year Clement I'd tasted previously (and at the same price-point) - a modest VSOP to the Clement's refined VS (to use cognac terms). A bit smoother, a bit more of those hearty cognac flavors, sure.

But once again, I prefer the molasses-based rums (exception: St Lucia's Chairman's Reserve, made of raw sugar cane but *not* the agricole process).

Brendan S 🇨🇦 | 55 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

Great as a mix to broaden the flavour range with a English or Spanish style. Sweet sugar and then grass.

Leon 🇩🇪 | 34 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

I really like barbancourt's nose. It tells of much more years than 8. The taste is sweet at first, then highly fluctous grassy and finally deep tobacco and coffee. I really like this one. However it is a little bit too strong on the alcoholic odor.

Rob Bratney 🇺🇸 | 8 ratings
Posted over 9 years ago

A little light for an aged rum, but it makes up for it in flavor. Nice amount of spice and sweetness, and just a hint of that rhum agricole funk. Highly recommended, and used often for tiki mixing.

Margus Mägi 🇪🇪 | 86 ratings
Posted almost 10 years ago

It's like brandy with water and no good with coke.




Brand Details

Name: 5 Star Reserve Especiale 8-Year
Years Aged: 8
Type: Barbancourt
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Pure blend (1 distillery)
Distillation: Unknown
Women leading Rum: No

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