Habitation Velier Mount Gay Last Ward 2009

A fantastic rum. The relatively high alcohol-percentage gives you “bang for the bucks” but in a very tasteful way. The natural sweetness actually makes this rum very harmonic 😋

A superb peppery fruit salad!

Je le déguste régulièrement et aujourd'hui je l'apprécie à nouveau. Un très bon rhum du nez à la fin. Je l'ai acheté aujourd'hui et c'est un rhum merveilleux qui vaut bien son prix... Un peu sec en fin de bouche mais excellent dans l'ensemble, du nez à la fin.

Hier ein sehr schöner Mount Gay Habitation Velier. In der Nase bereits sehr fruchtig, Birne, Aprikose, Apfel, orange und diese kommen auch im Geschmack zur Geltung. Alkohol ist hier sehr gut eingebunden.

I'm going back to this last ward after exploring Barbados a little more to give a more objective opinion. On the nose, there are the typical sweet spices of Barbados, vanilla, a medium oaky note, neither too young nor too old, and a slight hint of chili pepper. It's less sweet than what you might get from a Foursquare ECS. The first taste is woody, spices, less sweet this time, and fruit that appears. Coming back to it, it's spices, even nuts, that come to mind. The alcohol is present; I wouldn't say it's poorly integrated, but the alcohol level is noticeable. As I keep coming back to it and moving further into the green, I now have olives, even green beans; it goes in all directions. The finish is long and bitter, with spices again, but this time with a herbaceous bitterness, the chili pepper still present, then the vanilla gently resurfaces and brings a slight sweetness to the whole. This is a drier rum than what I'm used to tasting in Barbados. It's complex, not easy to grasp, but I'm very happy to have a bottle.

Beaucoup de bois, très épicé à poivré. Vanille agréable, pas trop sucrée. Un peu de banane, mais pas trop mûre, et quelques herbes. L'alcool reste un peu anguleux, mais pas désagréable. J'aime bien.

Exciting rum with a great nose, but poorly integrated alcohol! The nose makes me extremely keen on the rum and comes across as very complex. In addition to glue, I primarily have pineapple and marzipan, which are only slightly muted by the very present and slightly pungent alcohol. The palate is much woodier, more astringent and with a slight cherry note. Here too, however, the very present alcohol inhibits the enjoyment somewhat. All in all, an exciting rum, with the nose slightly ahead of the palate and with a slightly better integrated alcohol, in my opinion definitely a candidate for more than 8.5 points. For me, it just scrapes this mark.

Un bon Mount Gay, pas le meilleur, mais une bonne expression. Le profil habituel est toujours présent, le nez est dominé par les amandes, la pâte d'amande et le solvant, et il est constant même lorsqu'on le boit. Un bon Mount Gay

Au nez, le caramel s'élève avec de légères notes épicées ! En arrière-plan, de l'orange mûre ! Dans l'ensemble, très doux et noble. L'alcool est à peine perceptibleEn bouche, d'abord du caramel, du bois jeune avec du poivre, légèrement grillé en fin de bouche ! L'alcool est parfaitement intégré. En fin de bouche, les notes épicées et légèrement boisées prédominent ! Mais elle est relativement courte ! Un agréable et délicieux Barbados

Nez exceptionnel ! Bouche très intéressante. Une de mes Habitation Velier préférées ! Très bon produit !

Le nez est fruité et complexe mais en bouche je le trouve en retrait avec un alcool pas très bien intégré

A powerful rum that develops beautiful notes of glue at first, then continues on spicy (chili) and woody notes before plunging to soft notes of marzipan and toffee and finishing towards a more fruity register. Still intense in the mouth, the rum keeps a slightly fruity profile, but mostly dominated by spicy and woody notes, with a hint of vegetal, toasted and leather aromas. The finish, quite long, reveals tannins and some bitterness brought by licorice, but retains the same spicy, woody and leather profile with a touch of herbs and caramel. An intense and dry rum that represents its distillery as it should.

Day 22 of the Samples de Luxe calendar. Tobacco and herbal aromas, tropical fruits and varnished wood. Lots of aromas here. The palate is a little duller, although the alcohol is well integrated and everything is balanced. The finish is medium-bodied and the varnished wood aromas come back strongly. A fine rum straddling the line between funky Jamaican and dark, deep Demerara.

C'est bien fait mais le profil de cette bouche ne m'a pas plu. Dommage car le nez annonçait de belles choses.

In many ways very classic Barbados. On the nose there’s plenty of vanilla and oak, but a subtle herbaceousness as well, and gentle red fruits. On the palate there’s vanilla, oak, spice, as well as some dried pineapple and something a little metallic—a little like sticking a penny in your mouth. Strong finish sticking to profile.