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Port Mourant El Dorado Rare Collection PM 1999
The nail-polish and acetone hit on the nose is the first thing people mention — give it plenty of air and it settles into wet wood, anise, licorice, leather and dark dried fruit. This is a tropically aged Port Mourant at 61.4%: bone-dry, spicy and "unapologetic." Fans of the PM style call it phenomenal; several still find the alcohol not fully tamed.
The community says- Classic PM profile
- Deep licorice-leather-oak
- Solvent/acetone nose
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How does Port Mourant El Dorado Rare Collection PM 1999 taste?
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Bone-dry, intense tropical Port Mourant A classic, intense PM profile most tasters rate highly. The catch: heavy on wet wood, anise and heat, so let it breathe and add a drop of water. Divisive if you dislike bitter, dry Guyana.
Port Mourant purists who want dry, dark Demerara
Anyone put off by heat, solvent and bitterness
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21% rate it between 6 and 8. 19 selected write-ups from 109 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Most helpful positive review
26.10.2025 Part 1 Today we have an El Dorado Rare Cask online tasting and I've been looking forward to it. I will keep the score and just enjoy the rums and I have all of them on my shelves as well. ---------------- Leave this one in the glass for a while, then warm up your taste buds with a sip and wait for a short while before diving in. A true masterpiece they made here. It does have a little bite that warms, but it does so in a good way.
Review by Stefan Persson
Most helpful mixed review
Don’t know why, but didn’t like it when I tasted it. Really don’t now why, but maybe because I was at rum cruise in the Baltic Sea with lots of tasings.
Review by Dr.Django
Today, Port Mourants has been around for what feels like an eternity. El Dorado 1997: Delicious Port Mourant with the typical aroma profile. Very pleasing, alcohol perfectly integrated, very drinkable. It lacks a little complexity. 85 pts. El Dorado 1999: A little more closed than its brother from 1997, the alcohol is not as well integrated. I had hoped for more here. 80 pts. Tamosi Karaya 1998: Great stuff! With the typical Port Mourant aromas that take root in its complexity and expand aroma-wise. The mouthfeel is full-bodied and pleasant, the alcohol is excellently integrated. 90pts.
Review by Tim
Very dark, spicy, smoky, roasted, vegetal, citrus fruits, brown sugar, licorice. Very distinctive, but a rounding component like vanilla and caramel is unfortunately only present to a minor degree. On the palate, it continues similarly with lots of bitter, vegetal, and woody notes. Also unfortunately a bit alcoholic. For me, Port Mourant doesn’t quite belong among the ED Rare Cask champions. But lovers of these kinds of aromas will surely find an excellent rum here. Compared to the ED PM 97, it’s less woody/dark on the nose, also a bit unbalanced on the palate, but very intense.
Review by lukasdrinkinghabits
Looking at the previous reviews, this is a controversial rum. I didn't really like the 1997 brother because of an unpleasant acidity. This one may be the slightly simpler of the two El Dorado Port Mourants, but for me it's clearly the better rum. Up front: a little oxidation does it good. A few minutes or even hours in the glass is no harm to let some aggressive alcohol evaporate here. The nose is a typical, mature Port Mourant: aniseed and wet cardboard, wet wood. Plus rubber, Kalamata olives, dried fruit, very ripe banana, heavily roasted coffee. Everything is very harmonious. I could smell it for hours. The mouth is a little weaker, but I don't find the raging alcohol that others have described. I find the alcohol integration perfectly fine. The profile is similar and bone dry. Aniseed, old and wet wood, some brine, the roasted coffee again, plus leather and licorice. The finish is long and surprisingly smooth with leather, licorice, soft tannins and lots of dark spices: anise, cloves. I think this is a super PM! I wouldn't buy it for 250€. The 140€ I paid is excellent value for money
Review by Frank
Second, slightly younger El Dorado Rare PM for today.Nose: with a little time, the high ABV is well tamed. Now I have a full-bodied, intense but at the same time balanced PM in the glass. Powerfully spicy-woody and aromatically fruity-roasty. Vanilla and nutmeg stand alongside orange peel and dried currant. Seems charred, almost burnt, but that doesn't bother at all. There is also strong sweetness from maple sap and burnt sugar. 88Palate: again strong and intense, salty-bitter and dry at first, then warm and creamy, with licorice, vanilla and nutmeg. Plus fat pecans with a slight umami impact. Seems strongly toasted. The so typical orange peel comes in at the back. The bitter start is a bit too heavy, but then a very nice, mature PM. 88
Review by DomM
Classic and intense PM profile.
Review by zabo
Compared to the Prelude we just tasted in the RumX Advent calendar, this one is not quite as round and the alcohol is less well integrated. Unfortunately, I have to admit that this is the one that appealed to me the least of all, but that is generally "complaining on a high level" with these bottlings
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
Basically an exciting flavor profile of bitter wood, strong black tea, tobacco, licorice, papaya and some leather. Unfortunately, but me personally on the one hand much too bitter and sourish and the alcohol could be much better integrated...
Review by TheRhumhoe
Un Port Mourant rustique, authentique et pourtant d’une grande élégance. Le nez, assez vif, dévoile des fragrances florales et herbacées qui se complètent bien avec les épices (vanille, réglisse, anis, poivre) le chêne et les notes sombres sur le cacao, le cuir et le mélasse lourde de Demerara. Les notes de vernissage du bois sont très délicates et ajoutent un brin de complexité exaltant. L’attaque en bouche est vive. Le côté rustique de Port Mourant ressort avec des notes amères de boisé humide, de tabac, de cuir, de café, de cacao, de réglisse et d’anis. Les notes sombres de mélasse et de caramel cuit se complètent avec les fruits secs et exotiques pour donner un peu de rondeur. L’alcool est bien intégré dans l’ensemble. La finale est longue, chaude et pimentée, sur cette même trame boisée, amère et torréfiée, lourde et sombre. Les copeaux de crayon et les épices assèchent le palais, tandis que les notes fruitées donnent un peu de souplesse à ce profil très concentré. Un superbe représentant de Port Mourant, étonnamment disponible et accessible.
Review by RumTaTa
Very good and round Port Mourant! I particularly like its pronounced sweetness and complexity on the palate.
Review by Jakob
Intensiv und fordernd - das Release bietet das herbe Port Mourant Profil mit nahezu allen Ecken und Kanten an. Nasses Holz, Lakritz, Mineralik, Kräuter, dunkle Gewürze und Röstnoten - hier gibt es aromatisch schon sehr viel aufs Tableau. Für PM-Puristen ein Vergnügen.
Review by Timo Groeger
Class Port Mourant - El Dorado. The barrel and wood are mainly recognizable on the nose. On the palate it has a dark taste. The wood comes through here, also very spicy and still dry and strong. Superb.
Review by Joachim Guger
Must breathe a little. Naturally very powerful, very spicy, some dried fruit. Complex, alcohol integration very good. A few drops of water bring out pencil. Port Mourant is typically pronounced recognizable.In the mouth then more caramel, of course a lot of oak and massive spices.Great, long finish. Overall, very successful wood maturity!I am now not so the Port Mourant fan, but this one pleased me very much. A powerful, tart, very masculine aroma.
Review by Paul Christiaens
Colour: chestnut Nose: after pouring: nail polish remover, acetone, overripe banana, caramelised apple, olives in brine, damp earth, tobacco leaf and black tea, moist wood. Actually very pleasant. After aeration: still some esters, but now leaning more towards varnish. More pencil shavings and quite a bit of wood, both dry and lacquered. Some apple sauce remains. There's more of a liquorice note now, black olive, and dark tea. Taste: After pouring: syrupy, maybe a bit hot, but all well-behaved. Still some high esters like glue stick and overripe banana. Then the "sweet associated" style kicks in: molasses, even some PX-like sherry note of raisin, tarte tatin, coffee, salted almond and quite some tropical oak. Gets increasingly spicy with peppercorn, ginger, clove. After aeration: the hotness has mostly vanished, alcohol is well integrated. There's a slight sour and tannic undertone beneath what is otherwise mostly syrupy and rounded. Compared to a few minutes ago, there's more honey and peach syrup. Finish: After pouring: rather long and drying, leaving more of the roasted and spicy side. A continuation of the spices and wood from the end palate, plus quite some overinfused high quality black tea (which I like). There's some room for softer tropical fruits like peach and mango. After aeration: long and pleasant. The tannic side has mellowed down, making this a perfect drop.
Review by LukaŽiga
8,8:On the nose, we have a strong barrel impact with dried fruits like raisins, roasted wood notes like nuts, cocoa, mocha and spices like cinnamon, the molasses is grassy.Banana and orange peel join the fruit list.We notice some polish. On aeration, plum is obvious, some anise and Demerara sugar, pastry. 8,6:On the palate, the attack is quite spicy, the wood is roasted with caramelized notes, leather, chocolate, coffee, the molasses is grassy, herbaceous, slightly musty and with black tea, goes even darker with licorice. The fruits are dried, citrus and tropical. 8,7:The finish is balanced, dry and tannic, the molasses is grassy, brings tobacco and pencil shavings, the wood is roasted with variety of notes, caramelized, pairing banana.. Edit 26.9.25
Review by Leo Krüper
Honey, herbs, wood. Perhaps a hint of thyme.
Review by Maxence
This tropically aged Port Mourant is much rounder compared to those aged on the continent. The sweetness comes from coconut or caramel notes which clearly help balance the profile. Since I'm not a big fan of PM, I have to say I'm pleasantly surprised. There's still a gap compared to the dark old PMs, which are my favorites, but this is definitely a good rum!
Review by Lukas Jäger
Good El Dorado with the classic PM profile of the late 90s. Certainly not the top of the Rare Cask series, but like the vast majority of the range, solid and good. Full-bodied, dark and roasty, orange peel meets prune and aniseed. Just a little brisk in the finish, otherwise I would probably give it a few more points!
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Read full review →I also got more enjoyment from the Plantation Guyana 2005. There isn't a question mark about this being a well made rum it's certainly a "good" rum. It's just not to my tastes. From scouring the internet for other reviews (from people I actually take note of) they seem to...
Expert review by Zucker und Zeste
Needs some time in the glass but then shows multilayered flavors that come together, I think, very elegant. He has quite a lot of force to which you have to get used briefly. Unusually, I find the quite present saltiness. A few drops of water I also find not wrong.
Details about Port Mourant El Dorado Rare Collection PM 1999
A Pot Still Rum from Guyana, distilled by Port Mourant, at 61,4%.
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106 bottles logged by 94 collectors.
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19% opened, 7 emptied and repurchased.
What does Port Mourant El Dorado Rare Collection PM 1999 cost?
Community paid 134–220 €.
Current best price: 190.21 € – within the typical community range.
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About the Port Mourant distillery
The Port Mourant distillery is located in Guyana. Rums from Port Mourant have been reviewed 2,474 times with an average of 8.5/10.
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