Plantation Rum Old Fashioned Traditional Dark est le successeur du « dark over proof » (qui lui est à 73°). Réalisé par 7 grandes figures des spiritueux et des cocktails, son ambition est d’être « l’overproof » parfait pour réaliser des cocktails exotiques, tiki ou autres.
A blend of rums from Guyana, Jamaica and Barbados.
Nico's tasting notes
Summary: butterscotch - exotic fruits - powerful but coated
On the nose, caramel takes the lead and makes its presence felt. It's a salted butter caramel, rather sweet, not the burnt kind. There's something sweet and gourmand about it, like a banana flambéed with caramelized cane sugar. More than buttery, it's even creamy, like condensed milk or dulce de leche. Once past this cloud of caramel, the rum takes on an obvious Jamaican rum air, very fruity and even tasting of overripe papaya and banana. The link is made with the creamy side, via sweet mango in coconut milk.
Aeration suits this rum rather well, as it gains in consistency and becomes a sort of jammy, oxidized Jamaican. Caramel, chocolate and, above all, praline take center stage again, with a heavier rum air in the background. These aromas battle it out in front of our noses to see who can best enhance and enrich a cocktail. From this battle, a few aromas of marron glacé or curry come to the fore.
The attack on the palate is powerful, incisive, but also well-coated, with furiously exotic notes of olive and ripe fruit. Thick almond soothes the palate, exotic fruits are fermented but not acidic. The banana and papaya are crushed on a honeyed gingerbread, what a great idea! 🙂
The finish is long, with ripe papaya coated in oak. The caramel had clearly started the tasting and will end it in the same way.
« Ce rhum à cocktails voit deux facettes cohabiter et se livrer bataille. En cela, il ne se prêtera pas forcément à la dégustation mais sera sans aucun doute un ingrédient détonant à mixer… »
