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Valinch & Mallet New Yarmouth The Spirit Of Art 1994
Cookie dough, coconut and dark chocolate on the nose, with caramel and roasted coffee filling out the palate. This 26-year New Yarmouth 1994 is heavy and creamy, with the 56.9% surprisingly well-tucked-in — several tasters swore it was a Foursquare or Barbados rum before the reveal. A couple caught real bitterness and tannin on one sample; most found a rounded, long, gently woody sipper.
The community says- Well-integrated alcohol
- Coconut and cookie dough
- Rounded, easy for strength
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How does Valinch & Mallet New Yarmouth The Spirit Of Art 1994 taste?
Aggregated from 83 community reviews.
Rich, chocolatey aged Jamaican, deceptively smooth A widely-liked NY94 many rank among the best of the vintage — round, chocolatey and easy-drinking for its strength. The catch: a few hit noticeable oak bitterness, and it can read short.
Fans of long-aged Jamaican rum who like chocolate, coffee and coconut depth
Anyone put off by oak bitterness or wanting bright, ester-heavy funk
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4% rate it between 6 and 8. 20 selected write-ups from 83 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by alex
The best NY I've tasted. Perfectly integrated alcohol, a roundness 😍. The flavors are excellent with a very nice length. Disappointed to have only 3cl so good. The best rating for a rum I put on this app 😍😍😍Édit : almost a year later I just made a sample, and it's really a superb product and I raised its rating by one point 😍😍😍
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
This is a lovely rum and the years have added a lot of woodiness to it, not in a bad but in a good way. Fruity and wonderful spices are there from opening the bottle to the finish. A complex rum with roasted barrel on the palate and finish. Luckily I have another bottle coming in :-)
Review by SaibotZtar
very good NY ... Alcohol perfectly integrated nice round , I like him.
Review by John Coffey
Oh yeah. A category of rums apart. Beautifully integrated alcohol and that coconut taste that keeps coming back. One has the impression to go in borderline barbados... Very very good with this discreet woody taste
Review by Michal S
Perfektní, bohatý, vyladěný, vše dohromady sedí. Ve vůni kromě karamelu, vanilky i troška kokosu, v chuti navíc čokoládové a kakaové tóny. 26 let staření je znát, jde o špičkový rum, který stoprocentně stojí za ochutnání.
Review by Galli33
Extreme good delicious rum! In the nose it‘s like a rum from Barbados/Foursquare. Alcohol is integrated very well. Update: One of the NW 1994 I’ve tasted. It needs at least of 30 min to fully open up and a few drops of water helps too.
Review by Oliver
Wow, the nose alone invites you to linger for hours. Intense, heavy with a pleasant coconut note and great complexity. I would have guessed Foursquare in the blind test. Less "punch" on the palate than its brothers. But very balanced and complex. Ideal "drinking strength".excellent New Yarmouth from 1994!
Review by Leo Krüper
Beautiful tropical long sweetness. Wonderful color and smell. However, I don't have anything to compare it to the 94 NY. Still a wonderful bottling 2 years later. At the same time complex, but incredibly drinkable. If the price were lower, this rum could even be recommended to beginners. We enjoyed it after a barbecue and were delighted. A completely relaxed and easy-going New Yarmouth. Perhaps even the most uncomplicated top rum I've ever had in a glass.
Review by gali jo
One of the best ny94 I'have tasted, maybe the best
Review by Santo
Très pâtissier, extrêmement rond et gourmand avec beaucoup de vanille coco de banane flambée au caramel et de chêne tendre et moelleux.
Review by Mopar Rules
a warm and complex rum, I like how the fruity notes meet caramel, chocolate and cookies. The finish is melting chocolate…great stuff
Review by Jakob
Extremely round, seductively sweet with lots of coconut and vanilla sugar, plus red berries, some spices...surprisingly fiery on the palate, but thanks to the reduced strength, this is much less noticeable in the aftertaste than with other representatives of the vintage. Exquisite and dangerously drinkable.
Review by TheRhumhoe
A superb New Yarmouth that shows a whole other side of the Jamaican rum world. The nose is very well structured between fruity and pastry notes, where toffee and cookie mingle with roasted notes of coffee and mocha, sweet spices and an elegant and refined woodiness. The attack on the palate is supple and very delicate, with many spicy and fruity notes, roasted notes with coffee and dark chocolate and a rare woody note for a Jamaican rum that is greedy and really gripping. The whole has a creamy texture, an exquisite taste and an incredible roundness. The finish is extremely long, with menthol and tannic notes that come to the forefront of the initial dark and fruity profile. An absolutely divine high class rum.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
gigantically good old new Yarmouth! finally that cookie dough profile that the other 94s don't have. extremely drinkable and harmonious. Some dark chocolate chip cookies meet mango and a little mint, as well as overripe banana and orange peel...really great stuff! For me, this is probably the best '94 New Yarmouth and the only one to date that I would have really liked to have bought. I'm actually a fan of the reduced alcohol content here as it just seems more harmonious for me overall.
Review by Rene Pfeiffer
Great New Yarmouth. The SBS has more coco like the VM, the RA is more intense and overall for me still a bit better than SBS and VM.
Review by mto75
really very impressive NY94, incredibly heavy and intense! Only on the palate comes through perhaps a little trace too much barrel / roasted flavors / tannins. But if the RA NY 94 25 yrs had 91 points, then I give for the V
Review by Thunderbird
Great stuff!!! On the nose delicate esters, fruit (banana/coconut), vanilla, cookie dough and caramel notes.On the palate lightly burnt caramel, not too strong wood and spice notes... transitioning into a strong espresso/mocha flavor!This continues on the palate! Class!
Review by Basti
Initially, light lacquer and glue notes on the nose, which give way to fruity, spicy notes over time. On the palate - in direct comparison to other 94 NYs - somewhat flat and restrained. The finish is unfortunately relatively short. Update: I liked it much better when I tasted it again in crosstasting. +0.5 points.
Review by zabo
The following 94 New Yarmouths were in the blind tasting glass The preliminary result 1ST RX10164 2. RX12050 3. RX12183 4. RX10531 5. RX16026 6. RX10419 7. RX13113 8. RX10167 9. RX15643 10. RX10204 11. RX12556 12. RX12841 13. RX9617 14. RX1563 15. RX16027 16. RX12161 17. RX13824 18. RX6983
Review by Piotr Ignasiak
I like this one because of the dried fruits and the balance. Some chocolate notes as well, but not as heavy as with the next two NY94 that I'm trying tonight. Very nice sipper.
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Details about Valinch & Mallet New Yarmouth The Spirit Of Art 1994
A Column Still Rum from Jamaica, bottled by Valinch & Mallet, at 56,9%.
Community purchases
57 bottles logged by 48 collectors.
A drinker & collector.
17% opened, 5 emptied and repurchased.
What did the community pay for Valinch & Mallet New Yarmouth The Spirit Of Art 1994?
Community paid 216–341 €.
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