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South Pacific Plantation Fiji One-Time 2005
Sipped neat, this drinks easy and sweet: lots of vanilla, honey, toasted wood and a bit of tropical fruit, with the 50% alcohol tucked in well. Most tasters call it a pleasant, round sipper that never quite gets complex. The Fiji "funk" people expect is missing here, and the cognac-cask sweetness runs the show. Some also find it flat and one-note past the nose.
The community says- Well-integrated alcohol
- Vanilla and honey
- Added sugar
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How does South Pacific Plantation Fiji One-Time 2005 taste?
Aggregated from 103 community reviews.
Sweet, vanilla-forward easy sipper, low complexity Widely seen as a smooth, vanilla-heavy easy sipper with a very sweet finish. Many enjoy it; plenty find it flat, one-dimensional and untypically un-Fiji, with the added sugar dividing opinion.
People who like sweet, round, easy sippers and don't need funk
Anyone chasing classic Fiji funk or avoiding added sugar
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How is South Pacific Plantation Fiji One-Time 2005 rated?
RumX’s 0–10 scale is strict: 7.7 sits in the “Good” band. 77% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 0% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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What does the community say?
79% rate it between 6 and 8. 20 selected write-ups from 103 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Most helpful positive review
26.08.2025 Retasting and I still find it a pretty good release. ---------------- Had a great Plantation tasting experience yesterday and here is the second one of the six we had a go at. This is an impressive rum from Fiji that deserves people give it a chance. I will definitely add this one to my shelf. It could have been a little more complex but still a very good rum. Watch out for South Pacific Destillery in the future, I think they will make more great ones. Price to quality is very good.
Review by Righrum
Most helpful critical review
RumX Advent calendar Day 2 Disappointing rum, little going on there. A bit of coconut, nuts and vanilla. At first I thought about some awful continental aged FS I had in the past, but pairing this one performed even worse. Not a bad taste, simply nothing to be noted here and not enough to get a positive evaluation
Review by Christian Rudt
I definitely like it better than the latest one time fiji bottling from plantation. Cognac cask and Fiji glue battle a bit on the palate, a nice rum with a very fair price for the release. Retasting in the Rumx calendar Nice pleasing Fiji rum which I scored a little better blind, so I'm raising the score here by one point. Great plv for the release.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
very unusual flavor profile... somehow not quite mine and also not quite round... feels in the mouth as if he wants to go everywhere but gets nothing so right... alcoholic a bit spicy, coffee flavor a bit too dominant and the funk that I know of Fiji otherwise is unfortunately missing completely :(
Review by Rowald Sweet Empire
Nice. fruity and floral. But always that curiosity how it would be without added sugar. Never add sugar folks. Sadly no funk. Could have been a better dram.
Review by zabo
Edit: tried again as a warm-up for the REV 2006 series. Remains a nice sipper, but nothing more Day 2 RumX Advent calendar All in all a solid rum. Not bad in taste, more in the easy sipper category. A nice entry-level rum for me. Blindly, I wouldn't have put it in the Fiji category. But thanks for the selection, I would probably never have tried it or looked out for a sample.
Review by Lot-NAS
Kalender #2 / blind: Viel Vanille, Holz, Röstaromen, Datteln und etwas Schinken. Am Gaumen sehr süß und noch mehr Vanille. Ein paar Rosinen und die Datteln von oben und einiges an Holz. Am Ende warm, Vanille, süßlich, kandierter Ingwer. Der Alkohol ist sehr gut eingebunden. Nicht sonderlich komplex, aber ausbalanciert und das was er macht, macht er sehr gut :slight_smile:
Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
Nachgeholtes Tasting des Rums vom 02.12.2023 des RumX-Adventskalenders: Netter Easy Sipper. Fast ein bisschen langweilig. Erst recht für einen Karfreitag.
Review by Christoph
The intrinsically very round taste with a mixture of coffee and chocolate with some tangerine is ruined by too much sugar. Less sweet would have done.
Review by Vincent D
Rather discreet Fiji. Fruity, woody and vanilla. Not very complex. Surprising nonetheless, as it doesn't have the usual esters of the Fijian rums I know. Very affordable. Nice, but nothing more. Lacks length.
Review by reina
This is my next one from the One Time Limited Edition. As it seems to be sold out in Germany in spring 2021, I ordered it at at the great Exellence Rhum Shop in Paris. The first impression of the nose ist very sweet of vanilla and caramel, after a while some sweet fruity notes come through. The taste is more divers, way more complex with ab alcoholic and strong spicy attitude. But the fruity notes are still very present. The finish is long, warm and spicy with a little sweetness. Great Rum and I am glad that I finally got my hands on this one.
Review by Jakob
Vanilla, some toasted wood, honey, chamomile notes, a hint of fruit. Pleasing, but a little too weak on the chest - in my opinion, there is too little aromatic depth overall.
Review by Morgan Garet
Rhum très gourmand nez et bouche. Loin des profils habituels pour Fiji. Le caramel, la vanille et les fruits tropicaux sont gourmands et très agréables, il manque cependant de caractère. La finale est moyenne et très pâtissière.
Review by mto75
I have had much better Fijis in my glass (most recently the outstanding LMDW 2001), but I must also say that the one-time limited bottlings from Plantation offer good value for money.
Review by Anton Krioukov
One of my favorite column still rums. This bottle can really stand up to the quality of some of my favorite pot still rums from Fiji while still having a completely different character. If I could compare it to another rum, I would say this taste like a perfected Doorly’s 12 year, so if that’s your cup of tea, I highly recommend seeking this out.
Review by Johannes
This one is not my favorite. For a fiji relatively flat, tastes more like neutral alcohol, not typical of Fiji.
Review by Lukas Jäger
Very fruity smell that spreads quickly. It is dominated by rubber and tropical fruits such as tangerine. Taste for Fiji less salty-sour, but also very fruity. Overall very tasty and good, but compared to others again a little bravura (possibly by the dosage??)
Review by Thunderbird
Part four of my Fiji session! Here I save myself a detailed evaluation! Is the nose initially still pleasantly fruity..he loses extremely on the palate and in the finish...there is virtually nothing left...it all seems pretty flat and one-dimensional! Too bad, this is disappointing
Review by Luca
RumX Kalender 2023 Türchen Nr.2 Konnte ich nicht zuordnen, hat mich aber an den englisch Harbour high congeners erinnert. Ganz enstspanntet easy sipper, aber nichts weltbewegendes. +1 Punkt, weill ja bald Weihnachten ist.
Review by FabiDram
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Details about South Pacific Plantation Fiji One-Time 2005
A Column Still Rum from Fiji, bottled by Maison Ferrand, at 50,2%.
Community purchases
216 bottles logged by 191 collectors.
A drinker & collector.
23% opened, 19 emptied and repurchased.
What did the community pay for South Pacific Plantation Fiji One-Time 2005?
Community paid 60–90 €.
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216 purchased · 109 tasted · 32 wishlist · as of
About the South Pacific distillery
The South Pacific distillery is located in Fiji. Rums from South Pacific have been reviewed 3,650 times with an average of 8.0/10.
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