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Savanna The Wild Island Edition - Piton des neiges 2006
People already deep into Savanna's Grand Arôme will know what they're getting into here: a cask-strength Réunion beast full of overripe strawberry, pineapple and banana, with fermented, almost vinegary funk and green olive underneath. One taster nicknamed it a "Caroni-savanna" for its roasted, spicy edge. Intense and a little rustic — several say it needs a long rest in the glass before the 63.9% stops overshadowing the fruit.
The community says- Concentrated ester fruit
- Long roasted finish
- But: High ABV bites
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How does Savanna The Wild Island Edition - Piton des neiges 2006 taste?
Aggregated from 28 community reviews.
Intense cask-strength Réunion ester bomb Loved by Savanna fans for its concentrated ester-fruit and roasted funk. Powerful and slightly raw — a few felt the sibling Grand Étang Sec is better balanced thanks to its lower proof.
Savanna Grand Arôme fans who want cask-strength ester and funk
Beginners — it's hot, fermented and demanding
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What does the community say?
100% rate it 8 or higher. 11 selected write-ups from 28 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
14.05.2022 Had a nice meet up with some nice rums, good friends and also new rum enthusiasts. Notes Medium dark in colour. Nose Intense, fresh, faint wood, faint smoke, fruity, berries, light pineapple, faint chocolate. Palate Oily, intense, medium spicy, light chocolate, berries, light pineapple, spices, light olive. Finish Long and warm, light olive, light roasted wood, faint salty, light pineapple. Extra note. Needs to rest for a good while or the ABV will overshadow all the nice flavours.
Review by TheRhumhoe
A testosterone-fueled Savanna with high aromatic concentration. The nose is strikingly fruity, with exotic fruits and red berries, but also very ripe and fermented, almost hinting of vinegar. Spicy notes accompany this livelier side, which stings the nostrils. The medicinal aromas are firm and the floral and herbaceous notes a little more present. The alcohol comes out more with the barrel. A rather beastly Savanna that needs quite a bit of aeration. The attack on the palate is quite virulent. A spicy edge emerges at first, then tropical fruit and strawberry lurk in ambush, accompanied by esters. Roasted oak and herbaceous notes (tea) complete a dry, powerful, even slightly rough profile. The reduction on the Grand Étant Sec makes all the difference here. The finish is long, imbued with the fruity notes typical of Grand Arôme (exotic fruit, strawberry) and more roasted, woody and herbaceous notes that lend a certain bitterness. Spices, tannins and medicinal notes are also present in this aromatic melting pot. Compared with Grand Etang Sec, this is a tasty Savanna, clearly more powerful, but which shows to its cost that reduction can be useful in certain cases.
Review by Jakob
Solid Savanna representative with nice fruit esters, mint tea, heavy and compact sourness, some olive and wood - nice bottling.
Review by Jarek
The run has the same barrel number as the Savanna Reunion The Wild Island Edition - Grand étang sec 2006 (RX11969). According to the label, they both came into the barrel on the same day. At first they come across as quite different, but after a while in the glass they become somewhat alike. Nevertheless, the Grand étang sec is slightly better.
Review by RumTaTa
Beautiful balanced nose with pleasant sweetness. The sweetness continues on the palate, complemented with strawberry and pineapple. The finish continues harmoniously with a slight honey note.
Review by Thunderbird
Despite the high alcohol content a surprisingly mild rum, but in the overall impression rather restrained!
Review by TheJona'Spirits
🎨 Joli or avec des reflets cuivrés, larmes grasses qui s'écoulent lentement le long du verre. 👃 Au premier nez, je trouve beaucoup de fruits tropicaux bien mûrs, sur la papaye, la goyave, la pomme de Goa et le jujube. Une belle note d'esters vient enjoliver tout ça. Après l'avoir laissé de côté une bonne vingtaine de minutes, ce premier contact s'estompe petit a petit et évolue vers un nez plus axé sur les caractéristiques d'un vieil armagnac provenant d'un assemblage baco et ugni blanc! M'interrogeant, je me réfère à la fiche technique qui précise un vieillissement en fût de cognac et une finition en fût d'armagnac. Cool, je ne suis pas trop à côté de mes pompes 😅 Ce vieillissement amène des fruits mûrs et confits (fraise, cerise, raisin, orange), de la tige confite (angélique) et des épices de cuisine pour cake de Noël (cannelle, anis étoilé, vanille, muscade, gingembre). un côté légèrement friand sur du nougat aux amandes et au miel. Le nez bien au fond du verre, je trouve par-ci, par-là un peu de solvant, un léger voile mentholé et un aspect fermenté sur les fameuses olives vertes bien présentes aussi. Un nez magnifique, évolutif, complexe avec une belle concentration fruitée 🤤 😋 Bouche vive, très intense, chaude, pimentée, alcool bien présent mais pas "trop" dérangeant pour moi. Attention, il y a des watts ! Rétro olfaction sur les agrumes notamment l'orange confite enrobée de chocolat noir. Puis l'ananas Victoria bien juteux et rôti dans son beurre salé, ainsi que des fraises bien mûres saupoudrées de sucre, tout ça accompagné de solides esters. Il y a comme un goût de barbe à papa. Petite note d'olive en fin de bouche. Bouche assez austère par rapport au nez (là où l'intégration de l'alcool était juste incroyable) mais qui se révèle malgré tout bien plaisante. ⛳ Très longue finale sur une bouche tapissée par un boisé robuste et pimenté, de l'amertume et de l'âpreté sur le zeste d'orange et du chocolat noir 95%. J'ai la sensation d'une feuille de tabac d'un cigare allumé qui évolue sur différentes infusion de thé de Noël. Un verre vide très herbacé, vivace (comme un vieux fromage de brebis), acide et encore saumuré. NB. GES (91) > Piton (89)
Review by Pavel Spacek
Rumy z destilerie Savanna jsou jedny z mych nejoblibenejsich. Doporucuji kazdemu vyzkouset zejmena vuce esterove kousky jako je Grand arome nebo HERR. Tolik ovoce v nekolika malo kapkach tekutiny jste dlouho necitili.
Review by F.L.O.
Holla die waldfee ! Ist das ein Caroni-savanna 😂😂😂😂 An der Nase noch schön Holz? Frucht und ein bisschen Ester. Am Gaumen dann etwas vergorene und an Caroni erinnernde Röstigkeit. Mal was anderes…….
Review by Rhum Mirror 🇧🇪
Nez : du grand arôme comme on l’aime/ananas/banane/fumé … c’est intense et solvanté à souhait Bouche : fumé/olive verte/fraise tagada Finale : longue/épicée/amer Je trouve cela bon, mais pas ouf. J’ai déjà gouté des Grands Arômes de Savanna meilleurs et sans le ramdam de ce Piton des neiges. Bien heureux d’avoir pu le gouter lors de cette Master Class, car je n’aurai jamais eu l’occasion de le gouter autrement. Merciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
Review by Michal Jurka
Prolly top 5 Savanna for me. It has absolutely every flavour note I lobe about great Savanna.
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Auction results 381 € – 658 €
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Details about Savanna The Wild Island Edition - Piton des neiges 2006
A Column Still Rum from Reunion, distilled by Savanna, at 63,9%.
Community purchases
36 bottles logged by 31 collectors.
A collector's bottle.
11% opened, 1 emptied and repurchased.
What did the community pay for Savanna The Wild Island Edition - Piton des neiges 2006?
Community paid 136–514 €.
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About the Savanna distillery
The Savanna distillery is located in Reunion. Rums from Savanna have been reviewed 8,349 times with an average of 8.3/10.
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