Flensburg Rum Company HDGDL Very High Ester 2019
Loved by zabo, Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰 & 17 more
For experienced palates who enjoy high-ester funk at serious strength. Expect overripe tropical fruits, glue/polish, a touch of smoke and young wood. RumX users love it neat or in bold Mai Tais and Daiquiris, especially for the price.
- Huge ester funk
- Tropical fruit notes
- Great price–performance
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How does Flensburg Rum Company HDGDL Very High Ester 2019 taste?
Aggregated from 40 community reviews.
Funky high-ester powerhouse, great value For experienced palates who enjoy high-ester funk at serious strength. Expect overripe tropical fruits, glue/polish, a touch of smoke and young wood. RumX users love it neat or in bold Mai Tais and Daiquiris, especially for the price.
Fans of high-ester Jamaican-style funk who want a powerful, affordable bottle for Mai Tais, Daiquiris and occasional neat pours with lots of overripe fruit and glue notes.
Beginners, those sensitive to high ABV, or drinkers who dislike solvent/glue funk and slightly youthful, astringent wood tones.
How is Flensburg Rum Company HDGDL Very High Ester 2019 rated?
RumX's 0–10 scale is strict , 8.0 lands squarely in the "Very good" band. 92% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 0% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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Based on 40 ratings
Review by zabo
Brief evaluation and assessment of the Village'25. The successor to the HDGDL now as a Very High Ester Edition. From memory it already has more oomph. Alcohol is well integrated. For me, a little better than the first. Since I have to go over the old rating, I give it an 8.5. Not a unicorn but a rum at an extremely fair price of €50. Certainly a blast as a mixer. I like it and stand by it. Detailed analysis to follow.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#5177 22.03.2025 Tasting at Whisky Watcher in Odense. Nose Fresh, fruity, medium intense, ester, overripe, light polish, faint glue, faint wood. Palate Oily, naturally sweet, medium intense, faint wood, light glue, fruity, light pineapple, overripe, ester. Finish Long, fresh, naturally sweet, light wood, faint smoke, light glue, fruity, light citrus, faint iodine. When handwarmed it gets even better and smoother.
Review by Skyfly
The name sums it up perfectly. From nose to finish, you can taste wonderful ester aromas, although the glue is also quite present compared to other rums. Alcohol on the verge of being overpowering, but certainly suitable as a mixer. PLV is great!
Review by Mirco
Strong high ester rum with intense tropical fruit notes - pineapple and mango dominate the profile. The rum has a fine, almost citrus-like freshness, paired with a subtle smokiness that can only be perceived in the background. A wonderful balance between sweetness and a slightly spicy depth - powerful and complex, but not too overpowering.
Review by Chrischi78
Intense nose with lots of funk and overripe fruit. Surprisingly mild, the high alcohol content is barely noticeable. On the palate, however, it is much more impetuous - powerful ester notes are in the foreground, while the fruitiness recedes into the background. Mega PLV, bomb for mixing!
Review by Dr.Django
Der zweite HDGDL von FRC. Insgesamt fand ich den ersten runder und intensiver. Dieser hier ist aber auch genau das, was er sein soll: ein funky Jamaicaner zu einem fairen Preis. Der Alkohol könnte besser eingebunden sein. Ganz losgelöst vom Preis und eventuell als funky Begleiter im Cocktail schafft es dieser Rum nicht mich zu begeistern.
Review by LukaŽiga
8,2:On the nose, esters and glue, funky, polish, overripe tropical fruits like banana and pineapple, citrus fruits, fresh, grassy, flowery, vegetal molasses, briny, intense, spicy and roasted wood notes, smoky, bump into our nosetrils. On aeration, the rum becomes fermented with cream, cream toffee, confectionery, rubber is out. 8,3:On the palate, the attack is intense with esters, glue, funky, slightly alcoholic, fermented tropical fruits like banana and pineapple, red fruits, later yellow and green fruits, vegetal with briny olive, grassy, flowery and herbaceous, as the wood is roasted, sweet, oily with caramel, cookie dough, hints of yeast, spicy with allspice, smoky. 8,1:The finish is medium long, dry, very medicinal, funky with glue, esters, iodine, phenol, plastic, soap, fruity with fermented tropical and red(raspberry), citrus fruits, later candied, vegetal, grassy, flowery and the wood is roasted, spicy, smoky. Edit:31.1.26, in Mai Tai
Review by Alex1981
Super nose full of funk and overripe fruit. Rightly soft, abv is hardly noticeable. On the palate, however, much wilder and less round, full ester power and rather less fruity. Quite a short finish. Great mixer in Mai Tai!
Review by Boletus
Wie der Name schon suggeriert, gibt es hier Jamaika-Ester voll auf die Zwölf. Intensiv und funky mit vielen tropischen Früchten und einer ordentlichen Ladung Klebstoff. Jedoch ist der Rum auch erkennbar jung und mit einem etwas herben grünholzigen Einschlag versehen, welchen ich nicht so gerne mag. Als relativ preisgünstiger Mixer macht er allerdings einen großartigen Job!
Review by Johannes
Not exactly the fruitiest, but overall nice high ester profile, more on the astringent side, with a very good plv.
Review by Mentalo
Bei dem Preis macht man nichts falsch, wenn man die Richtung sucht. Sowohl als Mixer, als auch zum pur trinken. Ester, überreife Früchte, Kleber, Vanille, etwas Holz. Der Alkohol ist ok eingebunden und hier fehlt es an Tiefgang. Aber PLV ist top.
Review by Jarek
Exhibition review The Village 2025, Nuremberg: Ha, almost missed the fact that it's a new version of the HDGDL, which was also presented at the Village Nuremberg last year. A direct comparison between the two is still pending. But the HDGDL is not only a good mixer, it is also very good to drink straight. Fruit, glue, funk, nicely integrated alcohol. A "low brainer" for the price.
Review by Leo Krüper
Trade fair evaluation
Review by HenryL
Der Geruch den man von einem jungen Hampden erwartet. Aber nicht ganz so brachial wie bei manch anderen Vertretern sondern die Frucht ist noch schön erkennbar und wird nicht überlagert. Im Mund geht’s ohne Überraschungen weiter, allerdings mit klar erkennbarem Alkohol, mir etwas zu sehr. Insgesamt ein sehr preiswerter Rum, der sich für mich aber wohl weniger für den puren Genuss als für tolle Cocktails eignet.
Review by Nils123
Super eingebundener Alkohol. Wird mit Wasser "warm" im Geschmack.
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