Damoiseau 1995
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For seasoned enthusiasts only: this cask‑strength Damoiseau 1995 is dark, dry and powerful. Expect roasted wood, tar, dark chocolate, coffee, sour cherry and dried fruits. Best slowly sipped, often with a few drops of water. Backed by 110 high RumX ratings.
- Huge complexity
- Very long finish
- Unique dark profile
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How does Damoiseau 1995 taste?
Aggregated from 113 community reviews.
Dark, dry, powerful Damoiseau classic For seasoned enthusiasts only: this cask‑strength Damoiseau 1995 is dark, dry and powerful. Expect roasted wood, tar, dark chocolate, coffee, sour cherry and dried fruits. Best slowly sipped, often with a few drops of water. Backed by 110 high RumX ratings.
Seasoned agricole fans and high‑proof lovers who enjoy dark roasted notes, tar, sour cherry and complex wood influence in a dry, powerful old Guadeloupe rum.
Beginners, anyone sensitive to high ABV or strong bitterness, and drinkers who dislike tarry, smoky, heavily wooded profiles.
How is Damoiseau 1995 rated?
RumX's 0–10 scale is strict , 8.8 lands squarely in the "Very good" band. 95% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 0% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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Based on 113 ratings
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
This one can play with the 1989 that I also have. Overall another great rum from this destillery. The nose is fruity with vanilla and coffee in the front and caramel, barrel a bit of tar in the back. The palate is complex and well balanced with fruits and spices. There is a wonderful smoky oak feel to it. In the back i get chocolate and nuts. The finish is long and fruity with coffee and smoked oak.
Review by cigares
A warm, complex nose, herbaceous and dried herbs, fruity and dried fruits with a hint of roof insulation tar. The palate is more direct, with the same aromas and a hint of tar on the finish. A hint of freshness in the mid-palate contrasts with the dark notes. The taste buds on the front and back of the mouth are excited, but not so much on the sides. The finish picks up all the aromas, then a strong woody bitterness takes over. A touch of wet wool and black powder in the empty glass. A rum that disappointed me on first tasting, but that I find much better when I taste it again. Dry, lively and dark at the same time.
Review by Jakob
Delicious Damoiseau with a classic profile. Aromatically expressive with wood, spices, the classic dark red fruit notes (cherry) and slight hints of cola. Not the absolute top release from Damoiseau, but very tasty.
Review by Lukas Jäger
Really great! A great rhum agricole that impresses above all with its dark notes. Between roasted aromas reminiscent of cocoa and coffee, but also barrel and (charred) wood, there are occasional aromas of dried fruit and individual fresh notes typical of Agricole. Tastes very good to me, like few Agricole bottlings to date.
Review by Tschusikowsky
Exciting rum. Multilayered, dirty, medicinal, slightly iodine, fruity, molasses. Alcohol very well integrated in the mouth.
Review by Rodolphe
Revision of my opinion after blind tasting. The nose is dark, roasted, chocolate, candied citrus. But the alcohol burns the nostrils. On the palate, there's a touch of tar, or else a heavy bitterness from the wood. The alcohol is really pungent for me. The finish leaves me with a not very pleasant aftertaste. Final verdict, I'm raising the score from my discovery (I really disliked it) but it's still a rum I'm not a big fan of.
Review by Leo Krüper
Strong, spicy. Unusually spicy for a Damoiseau.
Review by TheRhumhoe
A powerful and intense rum, which develops toasted and smoky notes from the first moments, with notes of banana, dried fruits and tobacco in the background. The attack is strong in the mouth, with spicy, spicy and smoky notes, but also the presence of figs, cherry and raisins give a sweetness to this rum with a dark profile. The finish is long and warm on the same frame. A very good vintage combining power and sweetness of aromas with a nice balance throughout the tasting.
Review by Thunderbird
WOW 🤩, this is exactly a rum to my taste: heavy, complex, full-bodied and a beautiful depth! The finish is long and dark! This old flavor with fruit and wood harmonize perfectly together!
Review by mto75
surprisingly 'Caroni-esque' for an Agricole. On the nose nutmeg, dried fruit, thyme, caramel, and tar. On the palate, lots of smoked barrel, mocha, and rubber. The 66.9% ABV comes across as pretty biting, which also diminishes the finish somewhat. Overall good, but not top either, and a fair bit removed from the outstanding 80 Velier.
Review by Frank
Nice spicy and woody nose with dried apricot, even something towards dried date. There is also briefly a slight hint of milk chocolate. I still find sour cherry and something nutty towards chestnuts. A tart sweetness as of maple syrup. Vanilla and nutmeg.Wonderful on the palate. Spicy and almost floral fruity. Clearly the sugar cane, but also cherry and fig. Nutty in the direction of walnut. Caramel I got and vanilla and nutmeg. Totally well integrated alcohol.In the finish the sweet-woody sugar cane.This rum is really great.
Review by LukaŽiga
8,7:On the nose, the first impression we get is very floral and vegetal, smoky and waxy, as we feel strong presence of sugar cane juice, as thick and dark molasses join a little bit later with black tea, dark berries, perhaps plum, the wood is roasted with roasted nuts, burnt sugar, all nicely caramelized. When aired a bit, dried fruits, banana come out, some spice, as the molasses almost completely overshadows the cane, going even darker with licorice, cocoa, soy sauce, some chocolate, basil and tar. 8,3:On the palate, the attack is very spicy and intense with vegetal, woody and roasted, medicinal notes like black tea, toasted, roasted wood, plastic, wax, leather, some resin, brine and menthol, perhaps camphor. Still round and balanced. After the rest, dried dates are here, tar and quite strong meaty notes with bacon, some BBQ, then nutty and cocoa, molasses are really dark, roasted, as finally let go the darkness with little brown and more fresh, fruity notes as cherry, other dried fruits, coffee and flowers. 8,4:The finish is long, less intense with wood, dry, tar, wax and menthol, a bit spicy, with dark molasses, cocoa, in the end more fresh with dried fruits, banana and vegetal notes. Very, very complex, no alcohol after burn...
Review by Léo Delek
The profile resembles that of the 1980, with a very empyreumatic side (leather, smoke, even light tar), caramelized sugar and cherry. It remains one of my favorite rums.
Review by Djehey
Edit: once rested for a really long time, the result is really good :) This is an intense yet pleasant rum. I find the roasted leather and burnt sugar aromas that I like so much in the Bellevue 1998. In addition, there's a hint of dried fruit like apricot and grape. Not for every palate!
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419 bottles logged by 52,000+ RumX members. The ratio of closed / opened / emptied, indicates whether this rum is meant to be drunk or is a collector's item.
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About the Damoiseau distillery
The Damoiseau distillery is located in Guadeloupe. Rums from Damoiseau have been reviewed 1,294 times with an average of 8.0/10.
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