Gourmet Pool Long Pond Special Reserve LSO 2005
People deep into aged Jamaican and Trinidad-style rum are the ones who fall hardest for this. It's a low-ester Long Pond that drinks dark and spicy: glue and orange peel, oily texture, roasted leather and bitter chocolate, with tropical fruit weaving through. Several tasters swear it drinks like an EMB. The nose is quiet, the palate is not.
The community says- Alcohol well integrated
- Complex and layered
- Oily, coating texture
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How does Gourmet Pool Long Pond Special Reserve LSO 2005 taste?
Aggregated from 32 community reviews.
Dark, spicy low-ester Long Pond, cask strength Beloved by enthusiasts as a complex, cask-strength Long Pond that hides its 69.4% remarkably well. A few find the wood and bitter notes a touch too far; most call it excellent.
Fans of aged Long Pond and dark, EMB-style Jamaican profiles
Anyone wanting an easy sipper or put off by high ABV and bitterness
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0% rate it between 6 and 8. 20 selected write-ups from 32 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by DeMaddin
Nose: Intense ester punch meets green banana and dried fruit. The nose is dense, multilayered, and surprisingly gentle despite the high ABV. Palate: A tropical powerhouse! Ripe pineapple and passion fruit meet cinnamon oak and fine dark chocolate. The texture is wonderfully heavy and oily – a rum with real character and impressive structure. Finish: Long and complex. A mix of woody sweetness, leather, and tobacco. An excellent and impressive Long Pond.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#5850 11.10.2025 Visiting the Whisky Live Hamburg 2025 event. It was the first of its kind and went off pretty well. They still have to learn a lot about running an event like this. People were allowed to bring backpacks and even cabin bags to the event and that is a problem in my mind. This was the last tasting of the event and I'm happy it was. This is a bomb of an LSO Mark. Fruity, spices and wood marries perfectly with the ABV. The finish is like forever even after drinking water.
Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
Hammer! 😋😋😋 But Long Pond? Never in my life! This is an EMB, and a really, really good one. I'm flashed! If you try it: Don't be fooled by the faint nose. I've never tasted a rum where the intensity of the aromas on the nose and palate are so different. Unconditional recommendation if you are an EMB fan.
Review by mto75
war schon gespannt auf die erste GourmetPool Rum Abfüllung. An der Nase erinnert er mich spontan an die FineDrams EMB 95/97 Abfüllungen (die ich beide 91 Punkten hatte), gereifte tropische Früchte, Kuchenteig, Klebstoff, Karamell. Am Gaumen dreckig-chemische Caroni Anklänge, Fass/Tannine hinten raus. Der hohe ABV macht ordentlich Druck, aber es wirkt nicht sprittig. Wirklich ein exzellentes Debut. Chapeau! Macht Spaß auf mehr…
Review by RumTaTa
Nose: very balanced, slightly fresh, sticky, hint of sweetness, Palate: boooooooommm! The rum coats the entire mouth with aromas! Fruity and sweet at the beginning, then the spectacle turns into a cask-heavy rum. Finish: the transition is perfectly smooth, at the end tannins and slight bitterness dominate, but glue and tropical fruits keep flashing up! What a rum! The nose barely gives a hint of what's in the glass! The barrel-heavy finish is limited. In addition, excellently integrated alcohol! Excellent!
Review by Banana Joe
An incredible LongPond. 70%??? Never in my life, alcohol perfectly integrated, incredibly intense and complex. Great interplay of wood, spices and some herbs. The finish doesn't want to end. I am really enthusiastic about this bottling.
Review by Thunderbird
Den 2005 Gourmet Pool im direkten Vergleich zum 2005 Bottleshop (RX23695).. Unterschiedlicher können zwei 2005 Long Ponds kaum sein. Der Gourmet Pool ist viel Facettenreicher und komplexer als der ebenfalls sehr gute Bottleshop. An der Nase ist der GP fruchtiger, am Gaumen komplexer..fast wie ein guter Blend aus Caroni, TDL und Long Pond. Für mich der klare Sieger in diesem Vergleich
Review by Skyfly
Ein LP der Spitzenklasse und so unglaublich vielschichtig wie selten ein Rum. Die Fruchtnoten harmonieren perfekt mit den eher dunklen Aromen des Fasseinflusses. Der Alkohol war mir persönlich etwas zu stark, mit ein paar Tropfen Wasser (was ich seit Monaten nicht mehr gemacht habe) war er jedoch eine Granate - die Aromen noch schöner zu schmecken!
Review by Chrischi78
Beautiful Long Pond, and certainly a highlight of the rum bottlings at Whiskey Live in Hamburg. Wonderfully balanced with great spicy woody aromas, alcohol sensationally integrated. A great discovery. Tested again at home. Many thanks to bananajoe for the sample.
Review by Timo Groeger
Was für krasse Hampdens haben die denn jetzt hier noch??? Heftig die Teile. Überreife tropische Früchte wie natürlich Ananas und Banane, aber auch ne Runde Ester + Klebstoff und Lösunungsmitteln echt mal lecker :-)ä
Review by Martin Spooner
An der Nase eine schöne Süße. Sanfte Klebstoffe die allerdings nicht zu aufdringlich sind. Wirklich eine wundervolle Nase. Am Gaumen eine cremiger Erfahrung. Er bringt eine Komplexität mit sich. Bleibt lange im Abgang stehen. Eine 9.x ist hier sicher nicht zu weit gegriffen.
Review by Leo Krüper
Exzellenter Long Pond
Review by Johannes
I am surprised! I would guess a high proportion of tropical maturation! Really good!
Review by Nils123
Ein wahrer Hochgenuss! Super intensiv und hocharomatisch, den Alkohol merkst du nicht. Mit Wasser wird er noch intensiver und es kommt noch mehr Orange. Eine super leckere Röstnote im Abgang zusammen mit Orange und Schokolade/Kakao sorgen für einen Traum von einem Abgang.
Review by FischeJ
As Gunnar already wrote. The nose is restrained in contrast to the palate. Really intense and with a lot of power. You can keep it in your mouth for ages and it changes constantly. With spice, wood, fruit, then wood and leather again. Great. An absolute grenade.
Review by Lukas Jäger
Starkes Brett! Unglaublich smooth und rund, die 20 Jahre im Fass haben aber mal richtig gut getan. Bitterorange trifft auf ölig-minzigen „Dreck“, sind wir hier in Trinidad?!? Ein Long Pond der Spitzenklasse - nicht zu viele Ester, nicht zu kantig, dazu top eingebundener Alkohol (der soll 69% haben?) - ein richtiger Gentleman aus Jamaika!
Review by Sebastian JAEGER
Long Pond 09/2005 bottled 10/2025 Ex Bourbon Barrel; LSO, 12y tropisch/ Rest Conti. Geschmacklich eine Wucht aus Gewürzen, tropischen Früchten, Colanuss, rote Beeren, Möbelpolitur. Super funky und durch die ABV ein wahnsinnig langer Abgang.
Review by Buddudharma
Toller Low-Ester LP. Schönes, cremiges Mundgefühl und tolle Alkoholintegration. Von der Reife vielleicht sogar schon etwas drüber, die Bitternoten sind vergleichsweise ausgeprägt. Ist aber Jammern auf hohem Niveau, das ist schon ein feiner Tropfen.
Review by Rene Pfeiffer
Interessanter Rum. Was ist es? Steht Long Pond und Clarendon drauf. Erstmal viel Alkohol. Wenig Ester. Mit bissl Wasser erinnert es an EMB 1995. Also eher Clarendon. Bleibt aber bissl garstig. Sicherlich ein sehr guter Rum, aber für mich nicht 9 oder mehr.
Review by Carlitooo
A very nice dark Jamaica profile. According to the label, it comes from the Clarendon Distillery in Long Pond ... so it's a little questionable exactly what it is. The alcohol content is not ideally integrated for me. Also reminds me of the EMB profile - very dark, very high proof, needs a lot of time in the glass. In a direct comparison with another 20-year-old Long Pond, it unfortunately fell a little short, hence not the top rating
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Details about Gourmet Pool Long Pond Special Reserve LSO 2005
A rum from Jamaica, bottled by Gourmet Pool, at 69,4%.
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16 bottles logged by 9 collectors.
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0% opened, 0 emptied and repurchased.
What did the community pay for Gourmet Pool Long Pond Special Reserve LSO 2005?
Community paid 236–260 €.
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The Long Pond distillery is located in Jamaica. Rums from Long Pond have been reviewed 6,843 times with an average of 8.5/10.
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