Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. It makes for a nice juxtaposition, as it showcases the … CapnJimbosRumProject (59) Rating: 4.0 (2010-08-09) At The Rum Project (link follows) Sue Sea and I have independently reviewed and scored over 120 rums. “Maison Ferrand Purchases Historic West Indies Rum Distillery In Barbados.”, Good to see MGP getting a little creative with their many whiskeys. Color: Not pale but not yet even medium dark I’d say the color is medium-pale, less red copper than more yellow brass, but somewhere in between. It is not creamy but rather glassy-sharp from the first sip on and has a long distinctly sweet aftertaste where the brown sugar note comes forward. Plantation Extra Old / 20th Anniversary Barbados Rum With a few weeks of no reviews, it’s time to start the year off right with a review of another great rum from Barbados: Plantation Extra Old, also known as Plantation … I hope you’re able to find it, and I hope I didn’t steer you wrong! I do accept and even from time to time request samples from distributors and distilleries. The Plantation line of rums began life in 2003 when Gabriel’s trips to the Caribbean sparked an interest in the local spirit. “How Much Sugar Is Added to Your Rum?”, Ferrand, Maison. As it evolved in the bottle a bit the cinnamon joined with baked apple. The rum is sweeter than most that I like now, but I have learned to stay in touch with sweeter rums (mostly via El Dorado 15) but this is another I like very much. Smooth and easy drinking, the low ABV (and added sugar?) In 2017, Maison Ferrand purchased Barbados’ West Indies Rum Distillery along with a 1/3 stake in Jamaica’s Long Pond Distillery. Plantation’s Barbados Wild Cherry Finish rum shows that they can make excellent Barbados rum. ( Log Out /  Yes this smells like a rich home-made apple pie! Review: Plantation Barbados XO Single Cask Rum – Ruminations ... Rum Review #119: Plantation Fiji 2009. You’ve convinced me to give this one a shot… if I can find it. The vintage rums … I tried many things, earning a Masters degree in philosophy (SFSU 1980), but learning to program ultimately determined my living. The apple-cinnamon combination dials back as the glass finishes and one has a hint of hard apple cider. In the glass Plantation Barbados Rum Aged 5 Years is a classic golden brown colour. Review: Plantation Barbados 2000 (Old Reserve Rum) 88/100 a review by Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf) Posted on June 26, 2011. The award-winning Plantation Rum portfolio is expertly handcrafted by Cognac Ferrand, one of the world's premier … the addition of sugar, flavorings, and colorings. It is first a blend of pot-still and double-column distillates. Plantation Rum Barbados 2005 – Floral and thin, making for a nice contrast after the clubbing over the nose from the Peru expression. There is very little regulation to rum and its labeling, so it’s not as easy as it should be to know exactly what’s in a bottle. Learn how your comment data is processed. It’s hard to miss this on the shelf as the squat bottle covered in a loose lattice of straw or raffia has fairly awesome, if not a little yo-ho-ho stereotypical, look. Being new to the rum world, I’m not quite up to date on all the heated issues that serious rum fiends like to get their undies in a bundle over. One of three Plantation limited production (single cask) rums I’ve purchased in the last few months. The Nose:  Bright and sweet, but not cloying. Aroma: When I first opened this rum the scent of cinnamon was overwhelming. It is said that the first trace of rum distillation dates back to 1651 on the island of Barbados. I also sense raisin, prune, white grape, nutmeg, faint brown sugar, and only lastly the alcohol. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Plantation rum is owned by the French company Cognac … The Palate:  Very nice, viscous mouthfeel with many of those same sugars from the nose; caramel sauce, vanilla syrup, juicy citrus, and simple syrup. Gabriel accomplished this by introducing a French gin (Citadelle), and creating the Pierre Ferrand line. Plantation Barbados 5-Year rum is distilled from molasses and aged 5 years in bourbon casks before being transported to France for further 'finishing' in Cognac casks. Mid palate there are subtle notes of darker molasses, candied almonds, and sweet, baked plantains. Lots of complex sugars; creamy caramels, light molasses, moist brown sugar, and hints of hard butterscotch candy and vanilla cream soda. In their case, they prefer the Cognac/Champagne term dosage. helps round off some expected sharper edges, while the mouth-watering finish makes it hard to put the glass down. I usually find after-tastes to be less sweet, even a little bitter as oaky flavors come forward, but this rum is an exception. Sumptuous, decadent, and somehow quite affordable. The founder, owner and CEO of today’s Maison Ferrand, Alexandre Gabriel, met with the Ferrand family in 1989, and partnered with them in an effort to bring more of their maturing stock to market and to reimagine the brand and restart production. The private Plantation bottling of Barbados … In fact, according to company legend, towards the end of the 80’s, Maison Ferrand was an old, established cognac producer which had pretty much halted production and was more or less just sitting on a fair amount of maturing stock. A very fine blend of Barbados rums, aged for five years in bourbon casks in the Caribbean then refined in old French oak casks at Château de Bonbonnet. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. It stands its ground when first approached, … All throughout there is a nice bit of fire in the swallow, but it never gets harsh. Flavor: I have not yet tasted a rum where the dominant aroma notes translated to well to the taste. Transplanted from the New York City to San Francisco back when that was in style. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. The oak and spice make it a fun rum to play with in other brown spirit cocktails as well. There is more confusion to be had here. This one has been aged in American oak barrels on Barbados for three to four years before being shipped all the way to France to mature for one to two more years in French Oak ex-Cognac casks. Alcohol is to be enjoyed in moderation and with great responsibility. What are Qualia and Why are they Interesting? Plantation Barbados XO 20th Anniversary Review. The 2015 relaunch of Plantation Original Dark Rum. Change ). Sutliff Tobacco Company - Barbados Plantation. The Plantation Barbados Old Reserve 2000 is a Bajan rum blend distilled from both column and traditional pot stills, and aged in a combination of bourbon and sherry casks. Obviously, I’d prefer it if booze companies would insist on being totally honest and transparent for the consumer’s sake, but there’s about as much chance of that happening as…well, there’s pretty much no fucking chance of that happening. ( Log Out /  I’m guessing it would be a very good choice for Tiki drinks calling for dark rum. Facts Reviews … Tropically aged for “several years” (that from the front label) in ex bourbon barrels, this rum then gets 1 more year in “Amburana casks”, a South (and perhaps also central) American wood. Barbados was in 1627 the originator of sugar cane cultivation in the Caribbean. ( Log Out /  How I was I drinking it? ( Log Out /  https://thecasks.com/2018/06/12/plantation-five-year-old-barbados-rum-review This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. The front label says “Amburana” (and numbers the cask and bottle) while the back label says the rum spends its last six months aging in “Ferrand oak” which is not a kind of wood that I can find, but rather a person famous for his cognac. The Plantation line of rums is part of the Maison Ferrand family, a well-regarded spirits house that also includes Pierre Ferrand Cognac and Citadelle Gin among others. Review #90: Plantation Single Cask Barbados XO Amburana Finish Review. There is not much to be found about Amburana on wikipedia. I've found, with this style of tin, a lot of the time when I open it … The rum was transported from Barbados … “The Birth of a Rum Giant.”, English, Camper. Plantation Barbados 5-Year rum - rated #1916 of 10394 rums: see 393 reviews, photos, other Plantation rums, and similar Aged rums from Caribbean In conclusion medium expensive and just a little sweet for my taste now, but I think worth keeping around to try again later. On its own, or gently covered (equal measures) with a Diet Coke or Fever Tree Ginger Ale, Plantation 5 Year Old Barbados Grande Reserve is well worthy of note. Notes: This Barbados Plantation Rum blend of extra old vintages that were blended to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Alexandre Gabriel joint Pierre Ferrand. The Plantation Five Year Old Barbados Rum is, as its name strongly suggests, a five year old blended rum from Barbados. The words on the front of the tin would do as a review: Sweet Barbados rum, smooth and rich! The exceedingly smooth palate opens with plenty of creamy vanilla, plus hints of toasted marshmallow and vanilla wafers, … Plantation seems to be, refreshingly, one of the few that openly admit and support the addition of sugar. Plantation Five Year Old Barbados Rum, Blended Rum, Barbados, +/-2017, Dark Rum Daiquiri (by way of Jeffrey Morgenthaler and Simon Difford). Its succulent nose, typical of the Barbados style, … I’ve actually been enjoying the hell out of this neat in a Glencairn glass or over ice in a tumbler. Yes, appealingly so, but it manages to stop short of being overly so. The things I do for you r/rum, in a fit of selflessness I attended a Plantation tasting last night covering their Barbados range.. Plantation are a side project by a French Cognac distiller, now … As a neophyte, I don’t really have much thought on the subject past that. Behind that, pineapple juice, raw coconut flesh, and juicy oranges. A superb-looking decanter bottle of XO rum from Barbados, aged in bourbon barrels before being shipped to France for a secondary maturation in Cognac casks from the Ferrand house. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Is it sweet? 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