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Uitvlugt

Uitvlugt is a ghost with the best reviews in Guyana. The distillery closed in 1999 and its stills were hauled to Diamond, leaving the stillhouse in ruins, yet aged Uitvlugt rum is among the highest-rated on RumX, with one Cadenhead 1964 reaching 9.9/10. For decades this was the gathering point where Guyana's greatest wooden stills waited before moving on.

  • Elegant four-column Savalle still profile
  • Old Velier stock scores highest
  • Yellow fruit, caramel, black tea
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Cadenhead‘s Uitvlugt PM 1964

Review by Mirco

Mirco
Mirco Top voice
Dec 2025558 reviewsSwitzerland
9.9/10

On the nose, deep aromas of plums, tobacco, and leather, accompanied by roasted oak. On the palate, intense dark dried fruits, leathery spice, and a fine bitterness. Despite the power, it feels surprisingly harmonious and focused. A majestic classic that impressively embodies the …

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Uitvlugt El Dorado Special Cask Finish White Port Casks 2006

Review by DomM

DomM
DomM
Aug 2025910 reviewsGermany
8.5/10

For me the best out of the El Dorado cask finish series so far. The Uitvlugt works really well with the port, which adds a basket of continental fruits and some sweetness balancing intense notes from the long tropical maturation. Dry on the finish especially but still well …

10 found this helpful
Velier Uitvlugt Modified GS 1996

Review by DomM

DomM
DomM
Jun 2025910 reviewsGermany
9.1/10

Nice Guyana column profile on the nose. Coconut, milk chocolate and some vanilla with notes of dried fruits. Starts off with an additional note of wet cardboard and needs some time to breath to open up and lose its alcoholic note. The patience is well rewarded, however. …

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Uitvlugt S.B.S Guyana ICBU 1998

Review by cigares

cigares
cigares
May 2025921 reviewsSwitzerland
7.4/10

A very light color, a nose dominated by alcohol, with wood, varnish, banana and a light encaustic. The alcohol is better integrated on the palate, but the aromas don't really develop. Despite the high ABV, there's a sense of dilution, with ghostly aromas of varnished wood, stale …

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Velier Uitvlugt UF30E 1985

Review by Giorgio Garotti

Giorgio Garotti
Giorgio Garotti
Apr 2025183 reviewsItaly
9.5/10

A legendary bottle! A really complex rum, it transforms in the mouth where it always leaves you with something new! The thing that amazed me the most is that it has a really terrific balance, one of those bottles you would never stop drinking!

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CoR Uitvlugt Guyana No. 6 1997

Review by Stefan Persson

Stefan Persson
Stefan Persson
Mar 2025676 reviewsSweden
8.0/10

Got this sample for free from RumX. This rum comes from the since year 2000 closed Uitvlugt Distillery and the Port Mourant Double Wooden Pot Still which today is moved to the Diamond Distillery, the only distillery in Guyana nowadays. It was distilled in 1997 and was first …

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Cadenhead‘s Uitvlugt GM 1974

Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰

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Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Feb 20255,556 reviewsDenmark
9.5/10

01.02.2025 Retasting at the "Nordlichter Treffen 2025". Still a very good rum in my mind and always happy to try such old golden drops. --------------------------- Got this one as a present for my 40th. and also have notes. A very dark rum, very oily and fruity. I think …

Distilia Uitvlugt The Last Cask Artist (Yu Chuan) 1990

Review by LukaŽiga

LukaŽiga
LukaŽiga
Jan 2025770 reviewsSlovenia
8.6/10

8,7:On the nose, the first impression we get is very pleasant with charred wood notes and dried fruits, as there are raisins, figs, apricots, dark berries, blackberry and smoky wood with nuts, burnt sugar, leather. Molasses brings in some tobacco. On aeration, vanilla, prunes, …

The RumX Guide to Uitvlugt

The estate where the stills gathered

Before Diamond became the home of Guyana's historic stills, that role belonged to Uitvlugt, 17 km west of Georgetown. As distilleries closed, their stills were brought here: the Port Mourant wooden vats arrived in 1968, and the Versailles still and Enmore wooden Coffey followed in 1994. Uitvlugt's own French Savalle column, installed in 1921, joined them on the final move to Diamond in 2000.

A ghost stillhouse, a working warehouse

When Uitvlugt stopped distilling in 1999, getting the rum flowing at Diamond mattered more than the building, so crews knocked out the walls to drag the big stills out. What remains is a post-apocalyptic jumble of rusting tanks and pipes. The aging warehouses survived, though, and DDL still uses them as deep storage for casks it will not touch for years. The GuySuCo sugar factory next door is also still running.

ICBU and the French Savalle still

Uitvlugt's own rum runs under the marque ICBU, made on the four-column French Savalle still that now lives at Diamond and recreates Uitvlugt's marks there. It is a versatile column, giving everything from light to medium-bodied rum, very different from the heavy wooden-still marks it once stood beside. The initials ICBU trace back to a Dutch-era estate owner, though the exact name is disputed.

How to read an Uitvlugt bottle

Because so many stills passed through Uitvlugt, a bottle labelled Uitvlugt is not always pure ICBU: the mark code tells the real story, and some of the most famous Uitvlugt bottlings are actually Port Mourant rum distilled here. The single-mark bottlings collectors hunt come almost entirely from independents, with Velier the most prolific. The Velier Uitvlugt ULR 1997 is one of the most reviewed.

Most popular vs highest rated

Uitvlugt is almost entirely a collector's distillery on RumX: more than 170 bottles, and very few from DDL itself. The ceiling is extraordinary. A Cadenhead 1964 sits at 9.9/10, one of the very best-scored rums on the whole platform, and Velier's ICBU 1988 reaches 9.6. Old Uitvlugt is proof that a dead distillery can still make some of the world's most coveted rum.

How the crew scored it Uitvlugt

RumX’s 0–10 scale is strict: 8.5 sits in the “Very good” band. 95% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 0% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →

Flavour profile of Uitvlugt

Most frequently mentioned flavors

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Woody Vanilla Dried fruit Fruity

Taste

Woody Dried fruit Vanilla Roasted

Frequently Asked Questions about Uitvlugt

No. It stopped distilling in 1999 and its stills were moved to Diamond. The stillhouse is now in ruins; only the aging warehouses survive, used by DDL as deep storage, while the GuySuCo sugar factory next door still operates.

ICBU is Uitvlugt’s marque, made on its four-column French Savalle still. That still now lives at Diamond, where it recreates the ICBU mark, so new Uitvlugt-style rum still exists.

Almost all of it is aged single-mark Demerara rum bottled by independents like Velier and Cadenhead. One Cadenhead 1964 reaches 9.9/10, among the best-scored rums on RumX.

At Diamond. Uitvlugt was the gathering point for Guyana’s stills: the Port Mourant, Versailles and Enmore stills all passed through here, and the French Savalle column came from Uitvlugt before the final move in 2000.

It is a Dutch-era estate name, pronounced roughly eye-flot. The ICBU marque code traces to an early estate owner, but the exact name is disputed among historians.

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The RumX database currently contains 174 different rums from Uitvlugt. This includes various expressions, limited editions, and bottlings across different age statements and proof levels. Our community has contributed over 2433 reviews for Uitvlugt rums, making it one of the most comprehensive resources for exploring this brand’s full range. New releases are added regularly as they become available.

According to the RumX community, Cadenhead‘s Uitvlugt PM 1964 36yr 69,3% is currently the highest-rated Uitvlugt rum with an impressive rating of 9.9/10 based on 28 reviews. This expression has earned praise for its exceptional quality and represents the pinnacle of what Uitvlugt has to offer. However, taste is subjective, and we encourage you to explore the full range to find your personal favorite.
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