Reçu ce jour une tite commande, une fois n'est pas coutume de .... Rhum ....
Très tenté par les récentes et enthousiastes notes de Serge, par le fait qu'il s'agit d'une distillerie probalement fermée et par le mailling de
SMD j'ai donc pris plusieurs bouteilles de:
Jamaica 5 yo (46%, Murray McDavid, Rum Renegade, enhanced in Tempranillo, 2009) From Monnymusk distillery, enhanced in Ribera del Duero casks (Pingus? Vega Sicilia?
. I’ve read the distillery is now closed. Colour: gold. Nose: wow, this is nice! Warming, starting on typical notes of sugar cane and bananas flambéed but with something ‘extra’, maybe from the Tempranillo (and French oak). Then dried plums, apricots, nougat, coffee-flavoured fudge, even something flinty and maybe even smoky. It’s very elegant, not winey, and does not call for pineapple juice or lemonade at all. So far. Mouth: excellent attack! Once again, there are these typical notes of rum (not kidding) but also that ‘extra-dimension’, with a kind of sweetness that’s not usually to be found in Rum as far as I can tell. Apricots once again, figs, prunes and that very particular grassiness that’s not that far from tequila’s. Also unexpected salty notes (which I had even before I started to talk about tequila). The whole is excellent. Finish: rather long, smooth, with some liquorice now. Comments: super! As complex as a very good malt whisky and way better, I believe, that all the ‘commercial’ rums that I could already try. No obvious signs of ‘red wine finishing’ that I can detect, that is. And ah, holidays!… SGP:750 – between 87 and 89 points.
Et tout ça pour 42 € port compris
Rectification concernant le pédigré de cette bouteille (et de la gamme): il semble que la selection et l'embouteillage soient dus à Jim McEwan/Bruichladdich et non pas MMD.
Pour les amateurs il reste ... 11 bouteilles chez SMD