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Velier Chelo Clairin Vieux Sajous Lustau Oloroso Cask 2017
Sour cherry, sherry and a whiff of glue lead here, with grassy sugarcane and dark caramel underneath. The Oloroso cask does a lot of the talking — several tasters find it softens the raw Sajous funk, and a few wish it hadn't. At cask strength the heat needs a few minutes to settle. One reviewer called it a "really nice daily driver," others just enjoyed the cherry-and-sherry combination.
The community says- Cherry and red fruit
- Good alcohol integration
- But: Sherry can dominate
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Cherry-and-sherry Clairin, funk toned down Widely liked as a fruity, cherry-forward sherry-aged Clairin. The recurring catch: the Oloroso cask tames the wild Sajous character, which disappoints purists but wins over people who find raw Clairin too much.
Sherry-bomb fans and people who find raw Clairin too wild
Purists who want the full unaged Sajous funk
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88% rate it 8 or higher. 46 selected write-ups from 186 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Clément Boetto🤤🇫🇷
Most helpful positive review
On the nose and palate: cane, vanilla, grass, sweet, cherry...a good rum.
Review by MarcT
Most helpful mixed review
Have 2 samples of this, so there will be 2 sessions. First impression: the smell immediately filled the room, one could recognize the Clairin, but in a muted intensity I have yet to find the Sherry component. The taste is quite hot and burning, but not unpleasant.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
31.10.2025 Retasting at Tom's wedding. ------- This one was hidden on a top shelf and I was the first one asking for it at the Tiki bar in question. The nose is fruity with sugarcane, nuts and vanilla trailed by grass. The palate is also fruity with lots of cane, wood and spices trailed by grass and tea and a hint of sherry. The finish is long and woody with sugarcane, grass, tea and dried fruits.
Review by Dr.Django
the white rums from Hait/Clairini taste very good. if you let this good base mature in a cask, it automatically becomes a masterpiece. you would think so, but it's not like that. in fact, a lot is lost in the cask and a lot is gained. very drinkable with a cherry aroma that I like.
Review by Giorgio Garotti
I had heard this rum when it was first released and it had made a decent impression on me, but now with the open bottle at home I must say that it really has something that captures me! A perfect integration between the sajous that retains its authentic flavors and the sherry cask that enriches it with black cherries, cream and meringues!
Review by Serge
I am a fan of all unaged Clairins and this is my first aged expression. So nothing to compare to. But i am – unlike other reviewers – not disappointed. Yes, in the smell is not much clairin left and the oloroso cask clearly takes the center spot. But this is ok for me. I also really enjoyed the taste where there is enough sajous left and works really nicely together with cherry, black cassis and dried plum as well as sherry. Really loved this. Got 2 bottles. Update: i am correcting this score down by a point due to more tasting experiences but also after a new side by side tasting with the other release aged in whisky and rum casks catching up in my mind.
Review by Leo Krüper
Really different from the version without sherry storage. But different is not meant in a judgmental way. Both go great hand in hand. A lovely, interesting clairin. Great PLV and still available.
Review by Jakob
Doesn't quite come close to its sister bottling at 50.1%, as the additional alcohol content works to the detriment of balance in a direct comparison.
Review by Galli33
Very cool rum with a super smooth finish🥃🤤This combination works really well😜 Lovely sugarcane/clairin notes meets sherry 🤙🏻 Really nice daily driver 😎But with a not so bad price-per-value rate… First tried in Wroclaw
Review by Godspeed
Update: Good but not great. Most conspicuously it lacks depth. Taste and alcohol integration is fine but I must agree with what someone said that it reminds you of a surface-only rum from Panama. I am a sucker for a beautiful bottle though and I just love how this one looks. Presents itself really well on the table. Perhaps that actually encapsulates this rum, great exteriors but not much in the way of layers. Too demanding to be a true easy sipper but not rich or deep enough to sit as a true tasting rum. That being said it’s not a bad rum. A tragic hero of sorts with its profile that lacks a home.
Review by LukaŽiga
8,6:On the nose, the first impression we get is sherry forward, with an earthy funk in the background.There are estery tropical fruits with overripe banana, dried fruits with apricots, raisins, vegetal notes with an olive, some glue.The wood is roasted and spicy with baking spices, vanilla, fruit cake, complex and inviting. On aeration, the sugarcane is juicy, grassy and waxy. 8,7:On the palate, the attack is tasty like a bag of sweets with dark fruit caramel sauce. There are strong sherry notes with red fruits, berries, dried fruits like raisins, prunes, some tropical with banana, pineapple.The sugarcane is vegetal, mineral with the olive, black tea.There's even a little bit of Sajous late on the finish.Excellent sherry aged rum, and fun zesty sajous funk.The wood is charred, spicy with vanilla, cinnamon.Our tasting buds are enjoying the balance and complexity in one.... 8,5:The finish is long, a bit bitter, dry, but tasty with dried fruits, berries, vegetal, waxy, mineral sugarcane with some tea, roasted, spicy wood with green pepper... Edit:31.1.2025, confirm the grade
Review by Timo Groeger
Like super rum. Very fruity nose, red fruits such as cherries are particularly recognizable here. You can smell it from a meter away. Also red fruits, cherry and sherry on the palate, but wood is also recognizable.
Review by cigares
A nice nose, quite lively, with cherry alcohol and a vegetal side.A full mouth from the start, still cherry and a clear agricultural side. A great aromatic freedom.a final a little disappointing, short with spices.a beautiful rum in which I don't really find Michel Sajous.
Review by mto75
The sherry cask (Oloroso) is very dominant, almost a little too much, as it rather suppresses the typical fresh Clairin notes. On the nose I have red fruits (especially sour cherry), fig, burnt sugar, sweet baking spices and olive. Clove, tea and cherry on the palate. Spices and vegetal notes on the finish.
Review by Jakob Mmmmhhh
The Oloroso cask has done a great job, but I find both on the nose and on the palate the Clairin comes through clearly, with the nose overall having more of the sherry cask.Overall a good to very good rum. However, I like both "sherry bombs" and the unaged Clairin profile, but neither are my favorites, either alone or in combination. Quite positive I find the alcohol integration and uniqueness.
Review by Eric Frechin
I found this rum very intense and well marked by the sherry cask. A pleasantly fruity nose, reminiscent of black cherry, with the presence of cane and a strong barrel and a hint of wine. The palate is intense and lively on the attack, but the fruitiness quickly returns with burnt sugar and vegetal notes. The finish is soft and not very persistent, which contrasts with the power of this rum.
Review by Johannes
Beautiful, well-made rum that skillfully plays with the young freshness of the Clairins and a storage in sherry cask.
Review by Adrian Wahl
Thanks a lot Speed Flo for this surprise. Even though it's not normally my world, this was a nice detour
Review by Santo
Vineux, beaucoup de fruits rouge au nez et en bouche avec un petit côté végétal. Un rhum agréable dans l'ensemble
Review by Stylo
It feels a little bit unusual for me to taste and give impressions on a rum that hasn’t yet been reviewed here on RumX..I’ll definitely come back a second time and adjust my thoughts, but here’s my first, quick, review. The nose has gotten the biggest influence from the ex-Oloroso casks, with red fruits (I get bitter cherries upfront, possibly figs), and a sweeter sugary note, almost like honey but not so strong. Then, the true Clairin essence starts to coming through, with grassy flavors, raw cane, a fainted hint of green olives. What was a lime peel note i used to get from the unaged Sajous, now seems to me more like chamomile. The palate is an whole other story: the fierce soul of Haiti is still there (sugarcane, grass, lime peel) maybe a little bit softened by those red cherries.
Review by Basti
An der Nase überraschend viel Klebstoff, jede Menge Sherry und auch grasige Anklänge. Erinnert etwas an die Hampden Pagos. Am Gaumen schön cremig mit ordentlich Sherry, Agricole-typischen Aromen und fruchtigen Noten. Leicht sauer.
Review by Arthur Moreau
For my taste, this old clairin is too marked by the barrel, with red fruit and sweetness dominating the nose on the first part of the palate. The profile of the clairins is too broken for me, too round. The balance of the old Vaval and Casimir is much better and more representative of what this terroir has to offer.
Review by Felix Reiber
Das Oloroso Sherryfass hat schon so manchen Rum auf cremige und fruchtige Weise aufgewertet. So auch diesen Rum aus Haiti. Neben schönen Frucht- und Agricoletönen, deutet die cremige Karamellnote auf das Olorosofass hin. Gewürze und Holz sind mit dabei. Am Gaumen dann auffallend würzig mit Holz, Sherry, Trockenfrüchten und wieder Karamell. Angenehm warm und sogar etwas funk ist vorhanden. Die Pflanzlichen Noten folgen und leiten über in Tee und Kräuter. Der mittellange Abgang weist nochmal eine schöne Würze mit Sherry, Tee und Fassnoten auf. Interessante Röstaromen, wie sie auch am Gaumen zu schmecken waren, schwingen mit. Ein spannendes Produkt und die Preisleistung ist auch in Ordnung. Danke an Leo für das Sample.
Review by ordogh
Colorful rum with strong notes from the barrel. It has the typical wildness of the clairins, which is refreshing. Well balanced with exciting aromas, it has the fruity side and spices aswell, but misses some more depth.
Review by Cinci
I am struck by a pleasant freshness. However, the fruity notes seem a little artificial in the aroma, with an unusual olive note coming through in a very exciting way. Otherwise quite harmonious, with a good length
Review by Maxime Clr 🇫🇷
Beautiful bottling in ex Sherry Oloroso casks! Cherry, wood and bitterness, but offset by good balance. A fine discovery
Review by Boletus
In der Nase finde ich die Mischung aus den rotfruchtigen Sherryaromen und pflanzlichen Noten des Zuckerrohrdestillats noch ein bisschen gewöhnungsbedürftig, aber sobald der erste Tropfen die Mundhöhle entert, fügen sich die einzelnen Komponenten zu einem harmonischen Gesamtbild zusammen, wobei die Sherryfässer den Ton angeben.
Review by TheJona'Spirits
Au nez, c'est explosif. Cerise aigre, zestes d'agrumes confits, sucrosité d'une canne locale gorgée de soleil. En bouche, vieille cerise à l'eau de vie de grand mère, sur le kirsch. Caramel trop cuit. Un côté poudre à canon en fin de bouche. Beaucoup de marqueurs plus ou moins présents pour un 4 ans d'âge, merci le full tropical. Produit atypique qui conviendra à une dégustation étalée pour faire la transition entre des agricoles (Madère pourquoi pas) et des mélasses plus fruitées (Belize, Maurice, Jamaïque).
Review by DosenZorn
The actual smell of the unaged Sajous is almost completely overlaid by the sherry. The floral, herbal notes are very much in the background. The sour note is still the most tangible of the original. Flavor-wise, there is a bit more of the actual sajous, complemented by spice, wood and fruit from the sherry. In the finish then licorice and hay.Alcohol is somewhat tamed, could nevertheless be a bit better integrated. I like quite well, but not quite on the level of the 22 months Clairins from the Mount Gay cask.
Review by Stefan L
I like it. Much sweeter than expected and it’s more of a fructose sweetness than a glucose one. -250829: New day and bumped it 0.1
Review by L' Art Rhumiste
Différent des autres Sajous, le fût d'olorosso a bien marqué ce rhum, peut être un peu trop d'ailleurs. On y perd en gourmandise et surtout l'identité des Sajous
Review by Krogulczyk
If You are a sherrybomb guy. Thats a product for you. Personally, i love this rum. 4 years in sherry cask provided great red fruit, cherry-like flavours which are very scrumptious. On the other hand. Agricoles and Haitian rums tend to lose flavour to the detriment of casks. The funky goodies dissapear when barrels come into the game. If You buy a Haitian rum, You expect to be provided with plenty of wild and floral notes. In this case, those notes are well hidden, which is a big no no in terms of such key factor. However, that is a marvellous product that is very enjoyable. Give it a try, but dont expect lots of funk.
Review by Michael Schou
Tastet long time ago - Rate 8.4 04-12-2025 - Rate 8.8 Have tasted this rum many times during 2024/25 and it keeps getting better and better. Nose of herbs, glue, wood, sherry and sugar. Palate of sherry, wood, oak, glue and vanilla. Long finish dominated by wood, sherry and dried fruits. 01-04-2026 - Rate 8.5
Review by Buddudharma
Nice Clairin, but less convincing to me than the "normal" sister cask. I can't shake off the feeling that these sherry ageings just aren't really my thing...
Review by Christian Rudt
Bonus round. Good to drink but much of the Clairin character has unfortunately remained in the sherry cask which you only notice on the palate. Remains a good sipper.
Review by Bavarian Rum Lover
Interesting bottling. The oloroso cask clearly has the say on the nose, the typical Clairin aromas are only very subtle. In the mouth, the sherry also dominates at first, but over time this recedes in favor of sugar cane juice aromas. Very pleasant to drink, even if the typical Clairin notes are kept in check by the cask. The finish is long, woody and somewhat bitter/astringent. All in all, a tasty bottling that should appeal to all those who find the white-aged Clairins "over the top".
Review by Martin Spooner
In der Clairin session als 5.Verkostet: kirschige Nase. Allerdings etwas schwach. Allerdings schöner fruchtiger Geschmack. Ebenfalls die Kirschen allerdings mit einem leichten medizinischen touch. Abgang allerdings etwas kurz. In der Nachtverkostung 0.3 nach oben korrigiert.
Review by ilRummista
Tra i miei vieux sajous preferiti. Una bottiglia interessante e versatile. Si beve con una facilità disarmante ma è al contempo un rum complesso. L’invecchiamento in botti ex sherry non lo ha reso troppo dolce. Bevuta consigliata!
Review by FischeJ
Braucht Zeit im Glas damit die Alkoholnote verfliegt, in der Nase als auch im Mund. Danach holzig, fruchtig, süß, lecker.
Review by Tim Reiber
In der Nase direkt eine sehr schöne, würzige Süße, die aus Vanille, Toffee, Butter und fruchtigen Noten wie Mirabellenmarmelade besteht. Das Holz ist nur im Hintergrund zu bemerken, da es fast von der herrlichen, fruchtigen Süße erdrückt wird, was aber perfekt dazupasst. Am Gaumen dann viel säuerlicher, fruchtiger und mehr Holz. Der Alkohol ist leider nicht so gut eingebunden, unterstützt aber die Würzigkeit. Dann zeigt sich eine einzigartige, erdige Note, die an frisch herausgerissene Wurzeln mit alter Milch erinnert. Der mittellange Abgang ist sehr pflanzlich mit Holz und Tee.
Review by TheJackDrop
Whisky Live 2023, session dégustation rapide ! J’ai testé le providence 2019 après ça et j’avoue que pour la différence de prix…
Review by Agricoler
Tag 9 Sample Deluxe Kalender. Sehr lecker diese Kirsche Spitze. Coole Klebstoffnote und perfekt integrierter Alkohol.
Review by primus
Fantastischer Clairin. Ich finde das fast magisch, wie gut das Fass dem Clairin auf ein neues Level hebt. Während der Sajous in seiner Reinform ein gelernter Geschmack ist, ist das hier einfach herrlich. Perfekte Kombination aus Würze, Holz, der Fruchtigkeit aus dem Wein und etwas Frische. Bin sehr froh über diese Flasche!
Review by VitaliiZaichuk
On the nose , my first impression a hit of varnish and very intense sherry . On the pallet: wood , cinnamon, cherry, olive then finish nutmeg with mineral . That Rhum for me very sweetness and interesting ;)
Review by Schnubbii
Sehr süffiger Vieux Sajous, die Balance liegt für mich einen Tick zu sehr auf der Sherry-Seite. Trotzdem sehr angenehm zu trinken, der Alkohol ist gut eingebunden.
Review by John Coffey
Un nez très agréable.. On ressent bcp la sucrosite du finish au nez.. L'alcool prend vraiment le pas sur le jus.. C'est dommage
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Expert review by The Dunder Hut
This is so unlike any of its relatives. And honestly a bit disappointing. It is by no means bad. But it tastes more akin to a sweet Panama rum than to anything clairin. I am sure it will have it fans but I am not one of them...
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Details about Velier Chelo Clairin Vieux Sajous Lustau Oloroso Cask 2017
A Clairin from Haiti, bottled by Velier, at 56,7%.
Community purchases
298 bottles logged by 217 collectors.
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19% opened, 28 emptied and repurchased.
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Community paid 68–121 €.
Current best price: 79.30 € – within the typical community range.
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About the Chelo distillery
The Chelo distillery is located in Haiti. Rums from Chelo have been reviewed 1,364 times with an average of 8.2/10.
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