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Elixir Distillers of London Black Tot Rum Last Consignment
Give it 20 minutes in the glass and it unfolds: molasses, old leather, licorice, dark chocolate and dried plums, with a Guyana/Port Mourant backbone and a whiff of Caroni tar. This is the last of the actual Royal Navy rum, bottled from stone flagons decades on. Most tasters call it liquid history that genuinely tastes great — with a mostly short finish being the one recurring gripe.
The community says- Incredible complexity
- Deep dark layers
- Integrated alcohol
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How does Elixir Distillers of London Black Tot Rum Last Consignment taste?
Aggregated from 152 community reviews.
Dark, complex slice of Navy rum history Adored by nearly everyone as a real piece of rum history that still tastes superb — dark, complex, endlessly evolving. Common catches: a shortish finish and, for some, story hype outrunning the glass.
Collectors and lovers of old, dark Demerara/Navy blends
Anyone chasing bright fruit or a long finish
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6% rate it between 6 and 8. 19 selected write-ups from 152 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by DomM
While it delivers the intensity and punch you would expect from a navy blend, I cannot help but call this elegant. The nose is incredibly complex and ever evolving while in the glas. This basically delivers all I‘d like to see in a run. Dark notes, wood, fresh and dried fruits and a lingering smokiness all painting a surprisingly well balanced picture both on the nose and palate. Oily and rich texture rounds out the experience. Excellent stuff.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Retasting and I still like it a lot. ------- This is also a very expensive bottle and I'd say the price can be debated, but you can't argue the quality of this rum. The nose just hits you right in the face. Fruit and smoky oak hit you first and then come the molasses and caramel with a whiff of leather. The palate is complex yet wonderfully balanced. Roasted wood and oak hit the palate right away, closely followed by molasses, vanilla, and light chocolate. There is an ever so light bitterness to the palate. The finish is long and surprisingly smooth with oak, vanilla, and dried fruit.
Review by cigares
A very dark nose for a rum that's almost black and fat in the glass. Black licorice, molasses, prune compote, wet wood and old leather. A very old wooden house in the Amazon rainforest. The palate rises gently, licorice and other aromas rise and fill the mouth. A liquid story with a breathtaking evolution on the palate, it's a little different every time I taste it. A monument! Tasted again and still magnificent! I don't understand how it can be a little different every time I taste it? Oxidation?
Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
Call me a bloody novice or a mangy nihilist, but the rum just isn't the revelation I was expecting. 🤷♂️ I let it breathe for a long time. The alcohol evaporates and the nose makes me dream of Guyana (where I've never been, of course). A promising start! But the palate is disappointing: woody, quite bitter, relatively sharp, not very complex. Is this supposed to be the famous Last Consignment? 🥴 Well, it doesn't taste too bad, but I've drunk rums that were much more to my liking. I definitely prefer the Rum Tot for my 50th birthday, for example. Well, my personal (relatively disappointing) experience. Make your own and prove me wrong! 😊 Update 2024-07-31: Post-tasting Tätärätä! Reconciliation - this rum is really something special. The olfactory verdict from the first tasting remains, but I now have to raise the palate rating significantly. I simply can't find anything that would make me hesitate, nothing out of round, nothing that stands out. Simply a perfect blend, in which the components from the other Royal Navy countries work so perfectly with the Guyana component that they merge into it and raise it another notch. What more could you want! In short: 10 points more! (crazy)
Review by Stefan Persson
Got a sample of this remarkable rum some months ago from Andy and Angel as a gift. Many thanks for that. I saved it to Black Tot Day and it was well worth waiting for. Black Tot Last Consignment is a piece of liquid history. It was bottled from antique stone flagons containing the last stocks of Royal Navy Rum which laid untouched for over four decades. It’s really an historical blend that never can be recreated. The nose is fruity and nutty with aromas of chocolate, banana, licorice and some sweetness. At the palate it’s fruity, oaky and sweet with flavors of coffee, cacao, leather, tobacco and cassis. The finish is very long, fruity and woody with flavors of leather and tobacco. Overall an excellent and remarkable navy rum that I’m very happy to got the opportunity to taste.
Review by Oliver
The Grand Lady of Navy Rums. Insanely rusty, dark and intense.alcohol perfectly integrated.
Review by Mirco
Very nice navy with almost exclusively dark notes, fruit and sweetness are not neglected either. A good portion of smoke is nicely integrated. This rum makes you feel like a pirate. Very nice! Thanks @Cigars for the sample.
Review by Aussierumfan
Literally drinking liquid history here, Very expensive but wow do I love it. So dark and heavy! Can definitly taste a lot of demerara in there, the nose is wonderful - musty, raisins, licorice and wood. On the palate the alcahol is wonderfully integrated with spices, licorice, molasses, chocolate, caramel, old wood and leather. Just a wonderful rum, it's a privilege to taste it. I first tasted this rum about 2 years ago thanks to a sample from MOM. I am leaving my initial score untouched.
Review by Rodolphe
A great demerara rum. Dark and intense. Everything I love, candied prunes, burnt caramel, licorice, wood... Top top top. Special thanks to Cigares for introducing me to this rum!
Review by SaibotZtar
Dream of complexity...a privilege to be able to taste it.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
very solid
Review by Lot-NAS
Liquid history in a Glass. Or better in the accompanying Gill (1/2). The nose starts off bursting with spices, wood and is more in the Guyanese side. In Addition there are some subtle notes of tar and metal. On the palate the spices also dominate whilst a subtle sweetness (malt and molasses) is adding texture. There are some dried plums and raisins. The finish is the same and really long, getting a bit earthy in the end. What a nice drop, I will leave it here for the moment and come back in some time for a second review.
Review by FabiDram
Komplexer Rum mit viel Holz 🪵
Review by BTHHo 🥃
The taste is dense and intense with an enormous number of layers. Hints of tobacco, molasses, licorice, dark spices and a hint of coffee in the aftertaste.
Review by Beach-and-Rum 🏖️🌴
Also meine Erwartungen an diesen Rum waren wirklich sehr groß, da die Jahresabfüllung von 2020 zu meinen absoluten Liebelingsrums gehört. Und ich wurde nicht enttäuscht. Dunkel, kräftig, rauchig, holzig, schokoladig, einfach großartig. Der Abgang könnte etwas länger sein. Im direkten Vergleich ist die Jahresabfüllung etwas fruchtiger und gefällt mir persönlich einen tick besser. Nichtsdestotrotz würde ich mir sofort eine Flasche zulegen wenn der immens hohe Preis nicht wäre. Es lohnt sich auf jeden Fall eine Kostprobe :) Update Feb. 2026 Gefällt mir mittlerweile noch besser als damals. Relativ starker Sherryeinfluss. Trotzdem kraftvoll. Sehr lecker.
Review by Leo Krüper
Great nose, but then almost disappointingly little going on the palate. Lots of wood, chocolate, tobacco, some bitterness. Old Navy Rum at an incredibly high price, which can not meet expectations.
Review by Tschusikowsky
The rum needs a lot of time to open up. The profile tastes delicious and is something special. Lots of dark notes: Licorice, meaty, molasses, smoked and burnt, chocolate, quite spicy but then also sweet fruit components like johanissbeer and something like physalis. Tastes like old Guyana. However, I find the smoky, burnt side relatively dominant. Accordingly, it also reminds me (too) strongly of a good mezcal flavor profile.
Review by Steffmaus🇩🇰
Never expected to try this, but when I saw it at my favorite whisky-bar, it was a no-brainer. A piece of rums history here. Very impressive in the color, and in the nose it has a chocolate and ripe fruit scent to it. I found deep notes of berries, cocoa and oak as well
Review by TheRhumhoe
A true piece of history, this rum is a vestige of the Tot that has now disappeared. The nose is incredibly complex and deep, with a harmonious succession of aromas ranging from tobacco, aromatic herbs, dried and exotic fruits, Demerara sugar and caramel to dark chocolate, spices, oak, leather and malt. You could spend hours here. The attack on the palate remains as intense as it is delectable. Time has bonnified the flavors and united them in a juice that is as coherent as it is structured, fine and complex. It's reminiscent of an Enmore from the last century, with a strong penchant for spices (chili, licorice, vanilla), leather, cocoa, wood and toasty notes. This dark, rather heavy profile is accompanied by aromatic herbs on black tea and dried fruit (prune), adding depth on the palate. Time has also taken its toll on the alcohol, which is superbly well integrated. The finish offers a contrast between the darker side (roasted wood, smoky notes, leather, chili and licorice) that moves towards bitterness, and the softer notes of caramel, burnt sugar and dried fruit. It's not as intense as the nose or palate, but leaves a beautiful imprint of the past on the palate. A superb rum, admittedly expensive, but one that will go down in rum history.
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2 critics scored it, averaging 8.7/10. Reviews from RumX's blog partners, independent experts who have tasted, evaluated, and described this rum..
Expert review by The Fat Rum Pirate
Read full review →The finish is a reasonable length but is quite dry and doesn't linger for as long as you might expect from such a heavy style of rum. What you are tasting here is a snapshot in time. Something that cannot really be repeated. Were the Royal British Navy still getting...
Expert review by Zucker und Zeste
An incredible rum and for me one of the best rums I have ever tasted. The price is high, but that is not surprising for the ingredients.
Details about Elixir Distillers of London Black Tot Rum Last Consignment
A Navy Rum from Multiple countries, bottled by Elixir Distillers of London, at 54,3%.
Community purchases
101 bottles logged by 76 collectors.
A collector's bottle.
9% opened, 7 emptied and repurchased.
What does Elixir Distillers of London Black Tot Rum Last Consignment cost?
Community paid 610–925 €.
Current best price: 949.54 € – above the typical community range.
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