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El Dorado The Last Casks (Black) 1998
Dark chocolate leads here, backed by prunes, raisins, roasted oak and leather, with tropical fruit and orange creeping in once it sits in the glass a while. One taster summed it up as "fruity with chocolate accents." A 24-year Guyana blend at 50.3%. Several people love the depth; a few find the palate too woody, bitter, or oddly sweet for something bottled dry.
The community says- Deep dark chocolate
- Rich dried fruit
- But: Heavy wood tannins
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How does El Dorado The Last Casks (Black) 1998 taste?
Aggregated from 69 community reviews.
Oily Demerara sipper, chocolate and dried fruit Most rate it a rich, oily Demerara sipper full of dark chocolate and dried fruit. The catch: strong wood spice and tannins turn some tasters off, and a few find it a touch sweet.
Fans of heavy dark Demerara with chocolate and dried fruit
Anyone put off by strong wood tannins and bitterness
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RumX’s 0–10 scale is strict: 8.5 sits in the “Very good” band. 94% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 1% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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What does the community say?
93% rate it 8 or higher. 30 selected write-ups from 69 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Eric Frechin
J ai bien apprécié la découverte de ce rhum , il m a donné envie d explorer les Très vieux guyana. Au nez il s exprimé déjà bien boisé humide mais pas désagréable comme j ai déjà connu. Du sucre brûlé, du torréfié. L attaque en bouche présente une amertume du au boisé humide, je pense à de la racine, mais ça s arrête assez rapidement avant que ça devienne gênant. Arrive en force une grosse gourmandise bien huileuse autour du chocolat noir, cuir , sucre brun carame raisin sec. Une belle finale boisée chocolatée. A noter la viscosité quand on voit comme il tapisse le verre !
Review by LukaŽiga
8,7:On the nose, the first impression we get is really nice with typical dark notes like dried fruits with prunes, dates, raisins, dark molasses with black tea, roasted wood notes with burnt sugar, caramel, leather, dark chocolate, spicy vanilla and some orange with varnish flowing hand in hand. On aeration, more citrus is noticed, red fruits, nuts and creamy toffee from wood and brioche. 8,4:On the palate, the attack is very pleasant with dark molasses and dark, roasted wood notes like dark chocolate, caramelized, burnt sugar, coffee, leather and nuts, as the fruits are dried and orange.Very quickly these pleasant balance is demolished with too strong tannins and a petrol note.Luckily a second wave of rounding notes arrive like brioche with honey, nuts, vanilla, dried apricots, prunes and coconut, as the molasses is a bit vegetal, herbaceous. 8,3:The finish is long, a bit imbalanced with dry, tannic wood, luckily dark notes come to help rounding it, new notes to be tasted are cola and marzipan, perhaps dried figs...
Review by Pavel Spacek
Nose 10/10, first taste 10/10. And you know I am strict. Then small downgrade, the spirit alcohol take the control, but still - great rum! ... Enmore - drive destilerka, nyni uz jen funkcni destilacni zarizeni. Patrne jedine drevene destilacni zarizeni na svete, ktere se tesi velke oblibe. Rumy Enmore totiz maji prichut popelu, kuze, tezkeho dreva, coz nadchne zejmena milovniky nakourenych whisky. A pokud tradicnim Guyanskym zpusobem prida vyrobce do rumu trochu melasy, mate v lahvi unikatni velmi vyrazny a tezky rum. Jeden z mych oblibenych.
Review by Frank
The 2nd of the 3 Last. Another wonderful age, 24 years tropical. Nose: very complex and dense, almost a little closed at the beginning. Great dark-sweetish, fruity-woody and spicy aromas. Here again the pleasant sweet glue with polish and maple syrup Tropical, with coconut and papaya, but also dried apricot, dark cherry, blackberry. Slight acidity from dried redcurrant or a dash of red wine. Milk chocolate and plenty of vanilla from the bourbon barrel. Very round. 8.9 Palate: oh, interesting. Dark-roasted and malty-sweet, but when the rum enters the throat, there's a sour, sharp and dull undertone, which is a little irritating, but then dissolves deliciously. What remains is passion fruit and chocolate, orange and fatty pecan. This gives it a slightly bacony taste. Great flavor curve, fun. 8,6 Everything actually fits together here. The alcohol is well integrated for me, the fullness of the aromas is great, the sample is empty before I can decode everything... the acidity is a little annoying, but that doesn't matter. PLV fits.
Review by Rodolphe
(Labeling error on the samples so I don't know which 98 I'm tasting, the diamond or the enmore. The enmore is plausible, but so is the diamond 😅) The nose is pleasant: coconut, vanilla, cooked cane sugar, cask, borderline a little minty freshness put very light. . Then it evolves with the arrival of citrus fruit. On the palate, it's good, but not very complex and a little bitter in the end. This is what prevents it from rising to the level of its Sheldon/Albion/CBH brothers, who are clearly above it.
Review by Joachim Guger
Beautiful, deep color, very oily. Smells very good, somewhat spicier and more tart than the Gold. Warm, strong, very (too) round. I suspect that some sugar has been added here. Let's leave out the "a little"...🎃🎃🎃 Full-bodied and spicy in the mouth. Sweet.🙀 Long finish, slightly tart at the beginning. A very good, too sweet and very drinkable Demerara sipper. PLV 👎, the Rare Collection is simply in a different league.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#4264 16.09.2023 Whisky N Rum Show 2023. I didn't try that many rums on site, but I did manage to taste the last two ot the Last Casks. I still think they're too expensive compared to what you get. This one is nicely balanced and medium fruity with roasted wood and spices. The palate is oily with an added coffee note. Medium finish with light fruit and caramel. Draws really nice curtains in the glass.
Review by Serge
This release of the three-series also does not convince me. Nose and finish again Ok, but sour-bitter-chemical disaster on the palate.
Review by Rowald Sweet Empire
Heavy in the American Oak in the nose. Literally heavy. After some time the lightness of the PM shines through..but subtle. Taste: not so heavy now. Still oaky and tannins but also an interesting sweet/sour/dry balance- red wine and cherry. Some leather. Tobacco. The sweet and sour really sticks. In the finish like the sourness an espresso can have with a certain bean/preparation.
Review by cigares
A rum tasted at Rum Depot in Berlin. A sweet nose of candy sugar, marzipan and tart apple. The palate begins by expressing the acidity sensed on the nose, then the pastry side and a noble bitterness crown this beautiful evolution. The finish is clean, with yellow fruit and noble bitterness, and is quite long. The empty glass is on wood and marzipan.
Review by Jakob
Somewhat more intense than the second 98 Last Cask bottling, because overall rounder and more pleasing. Here, too, there is a lot of Demerara-typical aromas around oak, chocolate and sweet fruit flavors. Overall, however, the dilution is not an advantage here either. Pleasing, quaffable, but not a bottling that could raise the pulse of the Demerara nerd.
Review by Tim
For me, this is the best of "The Last Casks". Very round and absolutely delicious on the nose. Super drinking strength, goes down like oil. Super combination of vanilla, heavy dark sweetness, roasted aromas, fruit and chocolate. On the palate, the rum tends a little too much towards bitter herbs and dry wood. The finish could be a little longer, but otherwise bravo!
Review by mto75
heute die drei El Dorado Last Casks im Glas (red, black, gold label). Der schwarze ein 98er PM / Enmore / Tri-Canada blend. An der Nase kräftiger als der rote Bruder, es kommen mehr säuerliche Früchte, Piment, Karamell, und etwas in Richtung Lakritz oder Schwarzbrot. Am Gaumen Fass, röstig, sirup-artige Süße. Ranking: schwarz, gold, rot.
Review by Piotr Ignasiak
Quite heavy on the dark chocolate notes. After a while you get some tropical fruits in the background, so it's worth waiting. on the nose I feel like the alcohol is not perfectly integrated, while also being touch light in taste, possibly due to reduction. Curious to see how it evolves now that the bottle is open.
Review by DomM
Nose is dominated by wood, leather and roasted notes. The long tropical aging definately showing some (dark) teeth here. On the palate this one is the best one out of the series for me. The darker and herbal notes work pretty good with the strong woody notes. Most complex expression out of the last casks.
Review by Benoit Mahe
On the nose, there's a pleasant dark demerara profile. More Enmore than PM. On the palate, there's still no PM, but a warm profile with a fine balance between fruitiness and pastry sweetness. The whole is pleasant but not expressive enough to seduce me.
Review by RumTaTa
Wunderbarer schwerer Rum, an der Nase noch verhalten aber am Gaumen dann vollmundig und intensiv, dickes eingekochtes Pflaumenmus mit karemelisiertem, leicht angebranntem Zucker. Eiche und Bitterorangen zum Nachklang. Sehr guter Guyana Rum die 50% sind genau richtig.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
Liquid Paulaner Spezi!😃Very tasty, even if I would never have guessed enmore here, let alone port mourant. Very intense sweet fruity notes almost like a spezi (cola + orange). Keyword cola cacher!
Review by Thunderbird
This one is already clearly better than its weaker brother. The Demerara profile is at least recognizable. However, it is quite sweet, almost seems sugared to me. In this respect it is not for me
Review by Buddudharma
Mein Favorit unter den drei Abfüllungen. Elegantes Guyana-Profil mit nicht zu ausgeprägter Gewürznote. Mit etwas mehr PS sicher ein sehr schöner Tropfen jedoch, wie alle drei, preislich sehr ambitioniert.
Review by Johannes
Beautifully complex, fruity Guyana! I like it very much! However, I would have come up with PM and Enmore. For me it goes more in the direction of Diamond 1998.
Review by Mopar Rules
IMO the best of the three. The dried fruit you can smell keep their promise on the palate. The finish is longer and overall, their is a decent sweetness
Review by kudzey
Nice aroma but the taste could be more complex. I also expected a longer finish. This is quite spicy and woody. After breathing there are more fruits
Review by Andi
After a time in the glass, the rum opens again extremely and becomes fruity (dark), chocolaty, very round and really damn drinkable!
Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
Middle place within the new trio. I like the really remarkable note of quite dark chocolate.
Review by Jarek
The nose was still good, I liked it best of the three. But again an exaggerated wood influence on the palate and in the finish.
Review by Christoph
This is Guyana. It's sad to be told that rum like this from Guyana won't be available again.
Review by Nivius
Armagnac taste in the chewing gum direction, woody, slightly sour, but pleasant, very complex, delicious!
Review by Djehey
Tasted during the rum Fest in Paris. But not too woody, nor bitter. Very good !
Review by Tom Buteneers
Fruity with chocolate accents. I really liked it.
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Details about El Dorado The Last Casks (Black) 1998
A rum from Guyana, distilled by Enmore, at 50,3%.
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Community purchases
18 bottles logged by 16 collectors.
A collector's bottle.
5% opened, 0 emptied and repurchased.
What does El Dorado The Last Casks (Black) 1998 cost?
Community paid 165–287 €.
Current best price: 246.93 € – within the typical community range.
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