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Diamond (Versailles) S.B.S Guyana 2003
Smoky oak, graphite and pipe tobacco lead here, with vanilla, anise and a maple-syrup edge from what tasters spot as a sweet-wine (Marsala) finish. A single wooden pot still Versailles at cask strength, but drinkers call it rounder and milder than the 62.8% suggests. The recurring gripe: a touch too sweet on the nose for a Diamond, with metallic notes some found distracting.
The community says- Smoky oak & tobacco
- Well-integrated alcohol
- Sweet on the nose
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How does Diamond (Versailles) S.B.S Guyana 2003 taste?
Aggregated from 21 community reviews.
Woody, dry Guyana with a sweet-wine finish Well liked overall — dry, woody and warming with tobacco and vanilla. Several felt the sweet-wine finish and a slight metallic edge kept it from feeling fully balanced.
Fans of dry, woody Demerara-style pot still rum at cask strength
Anyone wanting a soft, sweet sipper or classic Versailles character
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What does the community say?
62% rate it between 6 and 8. 7 selected write-ups from 21 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Just finished a nice evening going through some of the samples we got from 1423.
Review by bossi
Eiche, Anis, Kräuter, prägnante Vanille Aromen und eine dezente Süße sind in der Nase wahrnehmbar. Die Süße und die ausgeprägte Vanille erinnern mich eher an einen Column Guyaner als an einen Versailles Rum. Somit eine nicht ganz typische Versailles Nase, wie ich sie kenne. Am Gaumen fällt direkt eine Bitterkeit auf, die sich zunehmend in eine Süße wandelt, gepaart mit Eiche, Zimt und Kräutern. Der Alkohol ist mit seinen 62,8% gut eingebunden, der Rum wirkt sogar mild, kommt allerdings nicht gegen ältere Vergleichskandidaten aus 1990 an. Im Abgang blitzen noch kurz süße Orangen Aromen auf, verschwinden aber sehr schnell wieder. Alles in allem ein guter Rum. 83 Punkte
Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
To me, the alcohol seems only suboptimally integrated. Update 24.06.2022:Today, the rum still seems to me a bit too brute on the palate, but for that I taste no annoying finish, certainly not sweet wine, but just, as it should be, graphite (pencil shavings).A rum with dry charm and character.Because I tasted the RX1378 in parallel, I held that on the palate stubbornly for this SBS (keyword "heavy sweetness") . 🥴🙈 One may convict me of the grandiose error! 🙏😉
Review by Frank
A maturation in sweet wine barrels is always such a thing... can make a mediocre rum better, but for me it is mostly nix. Nose: spicy, woody, fruity and sweetish. It comes through right away, the Marsala finish. Behind the sweetness, which is already a tad too much for me, many flavors come through. Lovely cherry wood, lightly toasted, Marashino cherry, dried apricot, pipe tobacco with vanilla, strong maple syrup. Palate: much rounder than expected. Strong and spicy, woody and toasty without being unpleasantly bitter. Slightly salty with nutmeg. The finish mellows out the Diamond nicely. Overall I don't think it's bad, nose a bit too sweet, palate pleasantly round. ABV fits very well.
Review by Rodolphe
C'est un très bon rhum. Mais je reste un peu sur ma faim, il manque peut être un peu de gourmandise.
Review by Jakob
In the nose still relatively sweet, on the palate then dominated by spices and metallic notes. Good, but not completely convincing and not fully balanced in taste in my opinion.
Review by Filip Šikula
Řekl bych, že na guyanu se jedná o celkem mladý rum, ač je pravda, že plnění s.b.s je nezřidkakdy přináší. V tomto případě vůně především sudová, chuť nastupuje jako kulatá, hřejivá s příjemným alkoholem. Po vteřině rozvibruje jazyk a ústa zalije nakouřené dřevo. Příjemné.
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Details about Diamond (Versailles) S.B.S Guyana 2003
A Pot Still Rum from Guyana, bottled by 1423 World Class Spirits, at 62,8%.
Community purchases
8 bottles logged by 8 collectors.
A drinker & collector.
25% opened, 1 emptied and repurchased.
8 purchased · 21 tasted · 4 wishlist · as of
About the Diamond (Versailles) distillery
The Diamond (Versailles) distillery is located in Guyana. Rums from Diamond (Versailles) have been reviewed 177 times with an average of 8.1/10.
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