Lawrence Bernstein

8.9

12/22 A LOT of vanilla and banana. Sweet. Smooth with no burn. Have to like all the tropical notes but I did. From Philippines. High marks 89 — 3 years ago

Ralph DiBiasi

9.3

Green Bananas on the nose. Light brown sugar hints of coconut and lingering spice finish. — 5 years ago

David Kline

9.3

Medjool date color of reddish brown verging on ebon. Brief, solid, fluffy headmaster cameo, beige. Bowing slowly with brevity, leaving only a dark, inscrutable surface. Ripe bananas, and Ethiopian coffee, grilled and roasted beef, marinated in Port with edges of cracked black pepper. Fennel, rosemary and cocoa, raisins, cloves, ginger snaps all stirred in cast iron over slow flames of acanthus to make this dark story thick with candied deceits, smelling of dark chocolate delights. This one has sharp, sugary teeth of cubed ginger candy, lips of gingerbread, a tongue of dark brown sugar, caramel-chocolate, dark rum cake, eucalyptus, coffee liqueur, and sweet barbecue sauce before finishing with figgy treacle. Smooth and brooding; your destiny implied by its name. — 6 years ago

Josh Morgenthau

9.6

Fantastic bottle. Raw tartness and power structured by the unique geometry of oxidative winemaking. Sweet dried fruit nose with grilled walnuts, and the body is sherry-like, but with a vibrant bite that transcends all but the very best sweet sherry. Mushroom, rum, caramel, and berry liquor. So good. — 3 years ago

David Kline

9.3

Active, perfect yellow amber pushing orange hard. Big bubbled beige-yellow head that dropped expectedly quick, with so much action. Petri-dish lacing with cytoplasm graffiti. Huge pineapple nose of fresh-cut ripe fruit! Grapefruit tattoo, but little else. General lemon creaminess; a memo from mandarin. Pineapple rum entry with caramel and vanilla, baked apple, brandy-pear, classy touch of black pepper, allspice, ginseng, soft ginger slices, dried orange peel, anise, and lime. Heady and thick, cut, wiry, and sinewy, but overall, a calculated, choreographed, disciplined display of restrained power, lithe and evocative, with a smooth finish.

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Bob McDonald

9.2

Rich reddish Gold. Aromas of Molasses and Burnt Sugar. A smooth rich palate giving plenty for its 37.5% Alcohol which is not high for a dark rum. “Filtered through Coconut Shell Charcoal to capture the true taste of Fiji” is the evocative statement on the label. Clean and easy to drink with 1 Block of ice. An excellent lighter style of Rum. — 8 years ago

Darren Harper

10

Out of this 🌎 — 3 years ago

Boris Mathiszik

9.2

This is the rum the locals sip in Fiji. Very delicious. Clean and smooth. — 3 years ago

David Kline

9.2

Okay, just black. Blonde wood/ baked apple hurrah, and then the dark quiet of space, or the grainy expanses of closed lids. The lacing of lazy, wood-boring insects. Such sights have set me to worrying of late. Mornings being a struggle at times, especially after these nighttime wooden cudgels and dark devices. The rack anyone? Coconut on coals. Tar socks. Dried violets. Black strap cola. Scraped vanilla beans, and dark chocolate cookie covered coal. Anise cinnamon and thin mint. Well, that’s the smell of the thing. The mouth below is unsweetened baker’s dark chocolate, blackened iron, vine charcoal, charred bone, hot springs through rubber piping, black sugar, Spanish “chocolate” brandy/black strap rum and graphite/smoke with evergreen suggestions. Not the Dragon of fire and smoke I expected, but certainly a formidable cave monster, living inside a volcano. I particularly appreciated the mineral/ethereal aspect. — 6 years ago

John Aquino

9.9

A rum barrel aged opus dei beer, modeled after stollen bread. A Christmas beer delight! Crisp and clean, very easy drinking, not sweet but all of the fruits are represented perfectly. From Four Quarters Brewery, Winooski, VT. A new personal fave! Great job! — 8 years ago