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Savanna S.B.S Réunion Grand Arôme 2021
Glue, rubber, nail polish and overripe pineapple — this young Savanna Grand Arôme smells like a spilled-beer fermentation tank and tastes even wilder. Several tasters got meaty, "compost" and rubber-glove notes they couldn't get past; the fans call it super estery, funky and layered. Only three years old, so it's short and hot where an older GA would stretch out. Cask strength at 59.1%.
The community says- Huge ester funk
- Overripe fruit
- Strong rubber note
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How does Savanna S.B.S Réunion Grand Arôme 2021 taste?
Aggregated from 42 community reviews.
Wild, chemical Grand Arôme funk-bomb Scores swing wildly from 4.5 to 8.6. Ester-hunters find it chemical, funky and fascinating; others hit rubber, sour cherry and rotten-meat notes and bounced right off. Genuinely divisive.
High-ester funk hunters and Savanna GA fans
Anyone who dislikes rubber, glue or chemical notes
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How is Savanna S.B.S Réunion Grand Arôme 2021 rated?
RumX’s 0–10 scale is strict: 7.9 sits in the “Good” band. 73% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 7% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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What does the community say?
38% rate it between 6 and 8. 13 selected write-ups from 42 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Stefan L
Just my second tasting and I still like this a lot.
Review by Galli33
I‘m sitting like the meme of John Travolta and looking for the Savanna GA flavours… Double Checking the label doesn‘t help🫣 The nose is OK, but what‘s going on the palate is just disgusting. The finish last long with a bitter taste of sour cherries 🤣Some extra points, because I like sour cherries 😁 BTW My GF ask, what‘s smells like compost in here 🤦🏻♂️
Review by Egon Van Der Weerd
Very interesting rum with lots of layers.... Not an easy sipper.
Review by zabo
So I'm not sure whether I think it's good or bad. It's definitely something I've never had in a glass before. I feel the same way about Beast#3. But I don't think I'm very enthusiastic about it.
Review by Jarek
Very interesting profile, a bit meaty on the nose behind the fruit, glue and everything else. I understand why the rum is so controversial, but I would take a bottle of it.
Review by F.L.O.
Nothing fits together here. The nosing still gives hope, but then the blow comes. The alcohol is poorly integrated, fizzy, the fruit is completely drowned out...I drink the rest with cola (almost a belediging for the cola)
Review by Rowald Sweet Empire
Super estery overripe yeasty fruit in smell. Grand arome AF. As if you spilled beer and you didn't clean it for a day. In taste: super chemically. Rubber/glue. Plastic. Wow. Something else. Very funky but interesting. Fermented fruits. Weird but sort of likable too. This is definitely one for the rum nerds among us.
Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
This rum is really interesting, but I'm not sure how to rate it yet, never had such a flavor in the glass. It is a mixture of initially pure nail polish remover (ester galore), but without a fruity component, and then later wet wood, the Virgin Oak has done a great job. A crass stuff, it seems somehow "sick" to me, in the sense of absolutely wacky, extreme. Anyone who blindly tastes a Savanna out here can only be congratulated. Let's see what the others say, who get these days samples from me. 😉 Update 2023-08-04: At the 2nd tasting, unfortunately, completely failed. The co-tasting whisky drinker (advanced) just said "manure!" - and I have to agree with him now, unfortunately. 😳 Too bad, with this experimental rum I could not pull him from the whisky to the rum side. But I'm still waiting for the reviews of those who got a sample (at a fortunately bearable price) of this (failed?) experiment. I'm curious!
Review by Ayc
All the markers of GA savanna are there on the nose: brine, capers, ketchup, slightly rotten fruit and acidity. Short on the palate, the alcohol heats up a little. It's not bad, and for 70 euros it's certainly worth the price now, but it's still a little young...
Review by Thunderbird
I can't do anything with it. I have a taste on the palate as if they had added a few dead animals during fermentation . . In addition to rotten and musty, somehow something carrion-like! At the very end, a little strawberry wine gum comes through, but that can't really save the rum.
Review by Johannes
For me, a mixture of Grand Arome and Herr. Lots of gummy bears, esters, strawberry, a little wood, perhaps a little snappy, a little plastic.
Review by mto75
The nose starts off with a lot of glue, fermented red fruit, vanilla, tobacco, chemical notes, but then more and more repulsive notes such as butcher's meat or offal (rumen) appear. The first impression on the palate is also similar, in the direction of rotten meat. A little better at the end, with vanilla and tobacco, but the unpleasant notes unfortunately remain. I'm glad it was only a sample. How SBS was able to select this cask remains a mystery to me, or was this supposed to be a 'Savanna beast' 🤷♂️
Review by Nivius
The first impression was unfortunately better than the retasting - I really liked this mix of woodiness and esters at first, now every time I take a sip I have the unpleasant taste of rubber gloves with lots of fruit and vanilla in my mouth, unfortunately not my cup of tea.
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Details about Savanna S.B.S Réunion Grand Arôme 2021
A rum from Reunion, bottled by 1423 World Class Spirits, at 59,1%.
Community purchases
15 bottles logged by 14 collectors.
A drinker's rum.
40% opened, 4 emptied and repurchased.
What did the community pay for Savanna S.B.S Réunion Grand Arôme 2021?
Community paid 74–90 €.
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15 purchased · 42 tasted · 8 wishlist · as of
About the Savanna distillery
The Savanna distillery is located in Reunion. Rums from Savanna have been reviewed 8,002 times with an average of 8.3/10.
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