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Elixir Distillers of London Black Tot Rum Master Blender's Reserve 2024
Roasted wood, chocolate and tropical fruit lead here, with a Barbados-heavy backbone (Foursquare-style coconut and vanilla) plus spice from Trinidad and a touch of overripe banana from Jamaica. Several tasters call it fruity, easy and pleasant. But regulars keep saying the same thing: this 2024 feels younger and more one-dimensional than the earlier Master Blender's Reserve editions, and a bitter edge shows up for some.
The community says- Fruity and spicy
- Easy to drink
- But: Feels young
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How does Elixir Distillers of London Black Tot Rum Master Blender's Reserve 2024 taste?
Aggregated from 99 community reviews.
Easy, fruity Navy blend, less complex than before Well-made and easy-drinking, with fruit, spice and chocolate. But many who tasted earlier editions found this Bajan-focused 2024 flatter and less exciting, and a few caught a bitter finish.
Fans of fruity, spiced Navy-style blends who want an easy sipper
Anyone who loved the older editions and wants big complexity
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84% rate it 8 or higher. 37 selected write-ups from 99 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by zabo
Most helpful positive review
Edit: tasted again, not bad, but from memory it doesn't come close to the Anniversary. Just sipped briefly, but the first impression is on the up again. Extensive tasting will take place on Saturday with the Franconian Tasting Gang and special guest Jakob.
Review by Thunderbird
Most helpful mixed review
Now the latest Blender's Reserve bottling and unfortunately the weakest for me! It is clearly too unbalanced for me and has nothing to do with the original version. The nose initially gives the impression of a Barbados in the glass. But only briefly, then lots of sweet/sour red fruits with wood and vanilla appear. So far so good. On the palate, there is an initial sweetness that only lasts for a short time. Then a strange mixture of spices and fruit that doesn't really harmonize. This also continues in the finish
Review by DomM
In the nose the main markers I get are Barbados and Trinidad (which isn’t surprising at all, looking at the blend components after the tasting 🙈). Interesting and more in the lighter side of things adding some additional fruits to the Barabdos profile. Alcohol a bit to present on the nose for my liking. On the palate again, I get a bit to much sting in a profile dominated by Barbados. Feels not quite as round as some of the other BT bottlings.
Review by LukaŽiga
8,6:On the nose, the first impression we get is roasted wood and tropical fruits like unripe banana.There are chocolate, caramel, roasted nuts, perhaps toffee.We cannot miss dried fruits and citrus, metallic notes... On an aeration, molasses is with menthol and vegetal, the wood spicy, the fruits bourbon yellow, citrusy and very pleasant... 8,6:On the palate, the attack is very fruity, spicy with all kinds of tropical fruits like mango, passion fruit, banana, perhaps mandarine and dried currants.The wood is spicy, dry and very roasted with nuts, chocolate, caramel and pepper. The molasses is dark, bitter with licorice. When rested, it becomes more medicinal with menthol, rubber and tar.The wood is more charred, earthy, there is some fudge.Nicley balanced and round, as vegetal notes neutralize sweetness from charred wood notes. 8,5:The finish is tasty and long, woody and dry.There are coconut, tasty tropical and red fruits, citrus, delicious chocolate and nuts, complemented with earthy and dirty plastic, tar and bitter molasses with some wood tannins... Edit:27.1.25, 0,1 higher...
Review by Stefan Persson
Tasted this great blend from Black Tot during Sweden Rumfest 2025. Their Master Blender Oliver Chilton makes a new edition of Black Tot Master Blender’s Reserve every year. The 2024 edition have a Bajan focus with 60% Barbados rum in it. Besides the Bajan rum there are also rum from Trinidad, Jamaica and Guyana. Remarkable components is 22yo Mount Gay, 26yo Caroni, 25yo Clarendon and 28yo New Yarmouth. The nose is full bodied, fruity and spicy with aromas of pineapple, mint, strawberry, lime, chili and coconut. At the palate it’s still full bodied but also buttery, sweet and fruity with flavors of honey, banana, vanilla and mango. The finish is rather long with flavors of licorice and dark chocolate.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
31.08.2025 Retasting at the German Rum Fest 2025. ------------ #5348 13.09.2024 Relaxing a bit 😊 Nose Light wood, spice, roasted, fruits, light banana, faint chocolate, light caramel, light nutts. Palate Round, medium spicy, wood, roasted, light anise, fruits, dried fruit, light citrus, light mint, faint tar. Finish Long and warm, wood, light roasted, light licorice, light mint, light citrus, dried fruit. Empty glass Licorice, caramel, vanilla, light berries.
Review by Galli33
Delicious Black ToT. In direct conparsion to the 2022 and the 2023 version, this one is ahead! It looks like we‘re moving forward! Nice complexity and nice ester, rubber and mango notes. The finish tastes like a creme brulee with a orange peel and minty leaf on the top! The alcohol is integrated well!
Review by Andi
So on the nose at first a lot of Barbados (Foursquare notes) glue/polish, fruity. On the palate, initially ester/fruity, then after a while in the glass light rubber and dirty/dark notes, dried fruit. All in all, the 2024 makes quite a young impression. Personally, it didn't quite pick me up, I was expecting a little more complexity.
Review by Filip Šikula
Návrat caroni do black tot rum master blender’s reserve! Rozhodně to neuškodilo. Pěkný komplexní kousek, intenzivní nos - koření, kůže, čokoláda. V chuti se jedná spíš o jemnější kousek se sladkými tóny stejných prvků, které nabízí nos.
Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
A shadow of its former self. Anyone who knows the previous bottlings (especially those from 2020) can only be disappointed. Despite a really long standing time (necessary!), this blend simply remains boring. Of course, that's complaining at a high level. But who can get out of their skin? I'm afraid this rum will remain on the shelves: It will be too sub-par for advanced aficionados and too expensive for curious beginners, among whom it is bound to find some fans in terms of taste. All in all, a sad performance. Perhaps the series would be better discontinued.
Review by TheJackDrop
Tasting notes : Nose: Exotic fruit, caramel, leather, light esters. Palate: very fruity and citrusy, softened by notes of vanilla and caramel. Simple, effective, with a little length carried by licorice, it seems to me. Finish: a little shorter than the others, sweeter too: citrus, vanilla, milk chocolate. The most affordable & the most gourmand, without hesitation! An easy-sipper.
Review by Eric Frechin
Sur les 3 derniers master blender, c est celui qui est en troisième position. J ai eu plus de mal à rentrer dedans. J avais un ensemble pas vraiment de notes qui m inspiraient. Un peu gêné par de l amertume
Review by Jarek
Franconian Rum Tasting Gang & Jakob, 2023-07-27 "Vorglühen": The first Black Tot since the 50th Anniversary that isn't too sweet for me. But somehow I can't get excited about it. Too unspectacular, too simple, too boring.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
Basically a delicious blend and relaxed to drink, drinkable and inviting/accessible. Overall, however, a little one-dimensional and I would have expected more. I found the predecessors much better here.
Review by Fuwi
My first Black Tot! Slightly phenolic on the nose, medicinal influences with dark fruit. This is also confirmed on the tongue, alcohol comes out a little, but is not too dominant. Dark chocolate, barrel and strong aromas. Delicious rum that needs time and can be enjoyed at leisure
Review by Frank
Sitting in a beautiful mountain cabin in Norway, listening to the nearby waterfalls, enjoying the view... and a nice Black Tot. Unfortunately, I don't have the predecessor with me for counter-tasting, but that makes it a bit fairer: Nose: from memory, there wasn't such a high proportion of Jamaica in the predecessor. So Jamaica is up front with esters, lemon and passion fruit. This makes it very fresh. This is followed by somewhat more restrained toasted aromas with pencil shavings and young wood. Becomes increasingly sweeter, caramel and light honey. Overall a little young. 7.8 Palate: slightly salty-bitter at the beginning and actually seems a little watery without being really flat. Light esters with lemon zest. Spicy, mainly nutmeg and a little pepper. It also seems a little too young on the palate. There are better navy blends. But ok overall. 7,8
Review by Martin Spooner
Schöne Nase mit Eiche und tropischen Früchten. Der Geschmack schön würzig rostig würde ich sagen. Relative ausgewogen. Eine Ecke Schokolade sollte drin sein. Durchaus schmackhafter rum den ich weiterempfehlen kann. In der Nachverkostung konnte er sich leicht verbessern. Schönes Aroma.
Review by Martin Ekrt
Vůně jemnější, ale fajn po tropickém ovoci a vanilce. Chuťově velmi hezká davka mentolu či máty, vanilka, koření a poměrně dost trpkosti. V závěru lehce máta, tropické ovoce a propsaný sud. Povedený kousek jen lehce vadí svíravost.
Review by Lada Hejda
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Review by Alexander Rasch
Tried it on the 13th GRF. What can I say. A nice solid navy rum. Similar to the 2023, it really appealed to me at the fair, but here too I simply don't need another bottle or sample. A solid palate pleaser with good complexity. Exciting is different and the price is too high.
Review by paulgi86
Sample 3 of 3 from UK Brand Ambassador and what a way to finish tasting of Black Tot! The jump in price is somewhat vast HOWEVER the jump in both flavour and complexity is equally vast and therefore fully justifiable. The overall flavour to me is “old, aged spirits” which is definitely high praise as I’ve had less complex whiskies with WAY higher price tags!! Deep and intricate sherry notes, slight fruit notes, lovely level of oak tannins and oak spices as well with a finish that lingers long enough to remind you of what you’ve just had! The longer in the glass, the more it changes as well - nosing upon pouring provides oak spiciness and barrel influence that eventually give way to roasted coffee notes, some dark chocolate and maybe a little caramel but like caramel drizzled on a red fruit The taste is exquisite - the word that sums it up for me is “integrated” no one item in the blend dominates or try to take over, each influence plays its part and then moves on providing a lovely complexity. Very happy with this one - a solid 8.5/10 for me
Review by Serge
Not bad, not a sensation. There's more going on on the palate than on the nose - somewhat thicker and fuller-bodied. Sweeter too. Somewhat alcoholic on the finish. Glad to be able to try the sample, but I don't need a bottle of this.
Review by And a bottle of rum
Quite different from the rest of MBR. More fruity with typical coconut, vanilla and brown sugar well known from Barbados, but enhanced with spices and woodiness form Trinidad with a just a punch of overripe banana from Jamaica. Overall, an easy-to-drink but still tasty and satisfying release that shows a more-fruity side than the previous version. And, if anyone wants to ask, it is not dull at all, but maybe less unique than the rest of MBR’s.
Review by Martin Švojgr
And here we have another BlackTot, this time for 2024. I smell burnt wood, tobacco, chocolate, tropical fruits. In the taste, leather is added, the taste of burnt cask is even more pronounced, and thanks to this, the taste of wabille appears. Emotionally I liked the previous vintage a little more but definitely the 2024 is an honest and good rum.
Review by Philip M. 🇧🇪
15/03/25: tasted @ Brussels Rhum Festival. Note: I was experiencing severe palate fatigue. First time tasting one of the Master Blender's releases. The list of rums in this blend is quite impressive and I liked it quite a bit. I'm curious for the other yearly releases.
Review by Nika
Not 100 % my cup of tee but pleasant with tar in it. I wasn’t bored guys.
Review by Mateusz
Markedly different direction! Less caramel, molasses, heavy notes. Much more fruity and light. Really good as well!
Review by Basti
Fair evaluation 13th GRF. Unfortunately, I didn't really like it. Too flat and unspectacular.
Review by Sebastiaan Linssen
Tasted at German rum festival Once again a very master blender reserve edition. Definitely a recommend.
Review by Dw117
One of the highlights of Rum Show 2024
Review by Johannes
First impression not really convincing. Seems very young, somewhat undefined, alcohol could be better integrated. I can't really taste Guyana, there is a somewhat bitter finish reminiscent of Clarendon.
Review by Buddudharma
Gefällig im Antrunk, aber im Abgang zu beliebig und süß. Für das Geld gibt es bedeutend bessere Rums. Danke an zabo fürs Sample!
Review by JFehr
GRF13 Unspectacular and a little too sweet for me
Review by DeMaddin
Unfortunately not as good as its predecessors, very unbalanced and for me no clear structure recognizable in this blend, the interaction of the different rums does not harmonize. If I remember the quality and level of its predecessors, 2024 drops off rapidly. The nose is still halfway ok, but it lacks a lot on the palate. The finish is short, which is a shame.
Review by Jack M
Tasted at the UK RumFest. Significant drop down from the 2023 MBR (tasted alongside) and other earlier editions. The move to a heavy Barbados (60%) and Foursquare component to the blend is very evident on the nose and taste profile. Overall it is just a little boring of a blend from my perspective. After the RumFest I bought a bottle of the 2023 MBR but wouldn’t justify buying this for the price.
Review by Kieron Wood
Sampled at UK rumfest 2024 This year's blend is a completely different direction for black tot ...
Review by Richard Krupa
Hodne alkoholove, spatne integrovany
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Expert review by The Fat Rum Pirate
Read full review →It's warm and comforting and extremely enjoyable. All in all its an excellent blend and very well balanced and put together. I could probably write another review in a week or so's time and use a whole load more tasting and nosing "notes". It is that complex and rewarding. Excellent...
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Details about Elixir Distillers of London Black Tot Rum Master Blender's Reserve 2024
A rum from Multiple countries, bottled by Elixir Distillers of London, at 54,5%.
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49 bottles logged by 39 collectors.
A collector's bottle.
14% opened, 2 emptied and repurchased.
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Community paid 107–152 €.
Current best price: 118.68 € – within the typical community range.
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