The Whisky Find Diamond The Design Rum #2 (Bar Maeda) 1998
"Clearly PM," one taster concluded — but the loudest verdict here is that this 22-year Diamond barely reads as Guyanese rum at all. Most members get smoky, peated, whisky-heavy character with faint peach and light tea, and a long finish that several felt buried whatever Diamond used to be. A few found pear, citrus and charred wood worth chewing on; many just found it muddled.
The community says- Peach and light tea
- Tastes like whisky
- Muffled, watered-down
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How does The Whisky Find Diamond The Design Rum #2 (Bar Maeda) 1998 taste?
Aggregated from 10 community reviews.
Peaty, whisky-leaning Demerara that splits drinkers Divisive and mostly disappointing — tasters keep saying it drinks like a peated whisky, not a Guyana rum. Some find peach and tea worth exploring; many call it muddled.
Scotch drinkers curious about peated, whisky-style rum
Anyone wanting a classic, recognizable Demerara profile
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How is The Whisky Find Diamond The Design Rum #2 (Bar Maeda) 1998 rated?
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What does the community say?
30% rate it between 6 and 8. 8 selected write-ups from 10 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Thunderbird
I can't do anything with this Diamond... it's neither fish nor meat. The aromas somehow don't fit together. The nose is floral, fruity and sweet at first. The longer it lingers, it becomes smoky. On the palate, it seems thin or watered down at first! This is followed by smoke, bitterness, wood and charred notes. The finish is vegetal please... I can't recognize anything of the Guyana Diamond
Review by LukaŽiga
8,2:On the nose, the first impression we get is a grassy and flowery molasses, fruity with pear and citrus fruits, slightly salty and peated. On aeration, the wood is charred and spicy, with whisky finish notes, slightly metallic, fruity with peaches and pineapple, banana and the molasses is herbaceous, minty, vegetal with tea.In the end, caramelized Demerara sugar rounds the nose notes. 7,7:On the palate, the attack is light, dry, grassy and flowery, fresh with tea, fruity with pear, citrus and yellow fruits, as the wood is charred, smoky with caramel, spicy, slightly bitter with peat, metallic patina and rubber.When oxidation does its job, some new fruits join like pineapple and jack fruit, dried fruits, the molasses becomes herbaceous and the wood brings dark chocolate, perhaps cocoa and nuts. 7,5:The finish is long, dry, slightly dirty, furry, the molasses brings pencil shavings, black tea, is fresh and flowery, mineral, while we have faint fruits, like jack fruit...and nutty, spicy wood, vanilla is the most obvious. Clearly PM..
Review by Leo Krüper
Undefinierbar. Alkohol aber ganz ok integriert.
Review by Serge
In der Tat leider etwas Whisky lastig. Nicht wirklich Islay torfig, aber dennoch so stark nach Whisky, dass es den Rum kaputt macht. Highlights für mich: eine leichte Pfirsich-Note sowie etwas heller Tee. Muss man nicht probieren. Wer Scotch mag, kann ihn ja mal probieren. Aber vom 1998 Diamond ist definitiv nix mehr zu schmecken.
Review by zabo
Also ganz ehrlich bin ich mir nicht gerade sicher ob dies wirklich ein Rum aus Guyana ist. Entweder bin ich gerade total Geschmackseingeschränkt oder das Teil schmeckt wirklich nur nach einem torfigen Whisky. Leider überhaupt nicht mein Fall.
Review by Banana Joe
Ohje, dieser Rum ist wirklich eine Enttäuschung. Das Whisky Finish war viel zu lang. Schade. Guyana für mich nicht erkennbar.
Review by Johannes
Relativ muffig und seifig. Für mich kein typisches Guyana-Profil. Diamond kann ich nicht wirklich rausschmecken.
Review by Jakob
Die Nase offeriert einen Hauch von Nichts - am ehesten habe ich Assoziationen mit einem süssen Obstgeist, der stark verdünnt wurde. Am Gaumen passiert dann ein Stück weit mehr, erneut Obst, auch das Holz, Karamellsüsse, Gewürze und auch eine rauchige Aromatik sind erkennbar. Das lässt sich trinken, hat jedoch nur sehr wenig mit dem gemein, was man sich unter einem Diamond 1998 vorstellt. Qualitativ betrachtet ist das trotzdem einwandfrei, aber etwas zu stark reduziert, was viel an Ausdrucksfähigkeit kostet.
Details about The Whisky Find Diamond The Design Rum #2 (Bar Maeda) 1998
A rum from Guyana, bottled by The Whisky Find, at 46,6%.
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1 bottles logged by the RumX community.
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100% opened, 1 emptied and repurchased.
1 purchased · 10 tasted · as of
About the Diamond distillery
The Diamond distillery is located in Guyana. Rums from Diamond have been reviewed 5,310 times with an average of 8.3/10.
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