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MHOBA Skukuza Confluence 2025
Sip this one neat, with a few drops of water to tame the 64.1% — it's a sipper, not a mixer. The nose hits with esters, glue and solvent, then fresh sugarcane, cherry wood and dried fruit. The palate turns charred and spicy: oak, espresso, dark chocolate over a vegetal agricole base. A few tasters felt the wood crowds the fruit and the palate falls a bit flat after that huge nose.
The community says- Intense estery nose
- Fresh sugarcane character
- High ABV heat
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How does MHOBA Skukuza Confluence 2025 taste?
Aggregated from 34 community reviews.
Cask-strength Mhoba, estery nose, spicy oak palate Loved by Mhoba fans for its glue-and-sugarcane nose and spicy, woody depth. The catch: at cask strength the palate can read a touch rustic and oak-heavy, and doesn't fully match that nose.
Fans of high-ester, sugarcane-juice funk who sip at cask strength
Beginners and anyone sensitive to high ABV or heavy oak
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21% rate it between 6 and 8. 15 selected write-ups from 34 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#5733 27.09.2025 Day one of the Whisky Live 2025, which this year looks better organized/arranged inside. Yet another nice bottling they were hiding under the desk and you had to ask for :-) Also fruity, medium intense with nice wood and ABV balance. There are some nice chocolate and anise notes in the profile.
Review by Thunderbird
Die Nase dieses Mhoba ist mal wieder fast einem Hampden ebenbürtig… immer wieder grandios.. Am Gaumen überwiegen hier die würzig-holzigen Aromen mit dezenten Frucht- und Pflanzaromen. Ester ist natürlich auch vorbanden.. Der Abgang liegt dann deutlich im holzig/würzigen Bereich
Review by cigares
A rum tasted at Whisky Live Paris in 2025. A vegetal and woody nose, fruity (pineapple) and esterified with quite a bit of rustic spices. The palate is lively, rustic, woody, spicy with vegetal notes and dry herbs. The finish is fairly long but, like the whole rum, a bit rough around the edges. It should be added that Mhoba has improved a lot in this regard recently.
Review by Eric Frechin
Goûté au rhumfest Paris 2025 avec le Satara. Je l ai trouvé moins "extrême " et moins estherisé que certains Mhoba. Il y a un travail de vieillissement assez intéressant, il garde un certaine profondeur . Boisé plus imposant que le satara
Review by Jussi Piirainen
Another Mhoba release from 2025. This one was also in the glass for a good 30 minutes before the review. On the nose: Woody notes, light esters, light pineapple notes. Light vegetal note in the background. Once the rum opens up you get some fruity brandy cask notes notes in the background like light pear, light apples. Taste: Spicy notes, woody notes. I get fruity notes like pineapple, sour apples, light pear. Mouthfeel is slightly creamy. It gets darker in the end with light chocolate notes and there is some vegetal notes also in the background. 65% abv is again integrated very well. Finish: Warm, woody, vegetal notes and anise note. Light oily and dry mouthfeel. Medium finish. I really liked this one, but the overall palate doesn't really reach to higher level maybe because the notes were lacking just a little bit of power.
Review by DutchRumPirate
Another delicious Mhoba of excellent quality. Delightfully floral on the nose. The typical fruity notes of pineapple and banana mixed with citrus and woody spices are very recognizable on the palate. A nice, warm, long finish where the spices and vegetal notes come to the fore together with banana. Esters are well present here. A tasty rum.
Review by Skyfly
Small MHOBA tasting: like the Satara, a good mix of (citrus) fruits, wood, and spices. Esters can also be detected on the palate. The alcohol is much better integrated and by no means disturbing.
Review by Rodolphe
On est chez mhoba, donc c'est pas très fin. On prend la valise d'esters pur jus de canne et on enfonce la porte. Celui ci est arrondi pour un brandy cask. Un ensemble sympa mais qui ne m'a pas convaincu plus que ça. A regouter plus posément.
Review by Julien Huitel 🇫🇷
« Premières impressions dégustation whisky live 2025, il faudra une deuxième dégustation au calme pour vraiment valider ou faire évoluer le commentaire et la note » Un embouteille moins chargé en Ester avec plus de rondeur
Review by TheJona'Spirits
Dégustation au Rhum Fest 2026. Note détaillée à venir. 👃 😋 ⛳ 💡
Review by Johannes
Schöne Kirschnoten, Ester, etwas alkoholisch.
Review by Rhum Mirror 🇧🇪
Mhoba Skukuza – 64.1% Nommé d’après un Rest Camp du parc Kruger, le Mhoba Skukuza profite d’un vieillissement original : 36 mois en fût de chêne américain ayant contenu un whisky sud-africain, suivis de 11 mois d’affinage en fût de brandy de la distillerie Van Ryn’s (fondée en 1845 au Cap). Embouteillé à 64.1%, pour seulement 381 exemplaires. Un nez expressif sur les esters, mais une bouche plus retenue et une finale assez courte.
Review by Benoit Mahe
Pas souvent fan des brandy cash mais celui ci m'a bien plu
Review by Pavel Spacek
M8ld, calmed, wow!
Review by Александр Иванов
I love Mhoba. Perhaps, the most unique rum. This one, have a lot esters. Nose: very bright & intense. First one esters punch, little bit alcoholic. Glue, polish, solvent. Then comes woody notes: fruit wood resin, cherry wood, touch of leather. Some spices, like cinnamon, nutmeg & baking spices. Under this all, we found the fresh agricole notes & dry fruits, like sultanas, prunes, dry apricots & dry mango. And finally sweet notes of buckwheat honey & cola. Palate: OK, it's 64,1% abv, so maybe you need few drops of water. Very rich & intense, full bodied, strong but velvety taste. Esters meeting you :) But soon you found rich taste of charred oak, woody, spices, espresso notes, dark chocolate, burnt sugar & leather. After that, you feeling agricole base, dry fruits, like raisins, apricots, prunes & hint of cola. Aftertaste: long, really long, warm & dry. Combination of wood, spices, fruits, coffee & esters. And minor touch of eucalypt. Conclusion: definitely amazing & complex rum. The most rare combination between fresh sugarcane juice & high level of esters. Maybe, too much oak , but it's still very tasty ❤️ One rule: if you see the Mhoba – buy it ! 😋
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Whisky Live Paris 2025
Details about MHOBA Skukuza Confluence 2025
A rum from South Africa, distilled by MHOBA, at 64,10%.
Community purchases
7 bottles logged by 6 collectors.
A drinker's rum.
42% opened, 0 emptied and repurchased.
7 purchased · 35 tasted · 5 wishlist · as of
About the MHOBA distillery
The MHOBA distillery is located in South Africa. Rums from MHOBA have been reviewed 2,402 times with an average of 8.2/10.
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