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The Duchess Enmore Guyana 1990
Opinions land all over the place here. Fans call it a classic Versailles/Enmore profile — pencil shavings, herbs, dried apricot, leather and smoky wood — while others find it thin, "overly dry" and a touch bitter without much fruit to balance it. One taster nailed it as an "old leather jacket" with cask char. A serious, dark 28-year Guyanese that needs time in the glass.
The community says- Classic Enmore profile
- Dried fruit, leather
- Very dry
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How does The Duchess Enmore Guyana 1990 taste?
Aggregated from 40 community reviews.
Dry, woody, pencil-shaving Guyanese sipper Well-liked as a textbook Enmore, but polarizing: some love the wood, leather and pencil, others find it too dry, bitter and a bit thin for the age.
Fans of dark, woody Demerara and pencil-shaving Enmore profiles
Anyone wanting fruit-forward sweetness or an easy pour
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RumX’s 0–10 scale is strict: 8.1 sits in the “Very good” band. 97% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 0% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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What does the community say?
48% rate it between 6 and 8. 20 selected write-ups from 40 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Johannes
Most helpful positive review
Typical and also very good Versailles, nicely balanced. Good blend of wood, herbs, fruit and pencil.
Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
Most helpful mixed review
Subsequent tasting of the rum from 21.12. from the 2023 RumX calendar: Somehow I find it difficult to find this rum really good. What bothers me most is this initial unexpected sweetness that covers the herbs like a film. This sweetish film gradually disappears, but I still can't quite warm to this rum. One of the weaker Enmores of the 1990 vintage.
Review by DomM
Cross Tastinge across 12 bottlings of 1990 Versialles destilled Enmores. Looking at the cask strength / 50%+ ABV bottlings in the line up (CG, DT, Duchess, Greenheart I & II, RdL, Sponge, TWJ), all deliver on the classic Versailles notes: Pencil, herbs/anis, some continental fruits and a wet/moldy woodiness. Quality wise I don’t see an outlier tbh, all very enjoyable. Noticeable, however, is a very intense nose on the Sponge, which adds lots of resin and „woody“ notes to the mix,probably paying tribute to its (partly) maturation in wine casks. This is clearly outstanding out of the batch. Bonus points for the older Greenheart and TWJ for highest intensity on the (continental) fruit notes for me. DT and The Duchess gravitating more towards spicy notes in the mix. Same overall verdict for the palate. All rums in the batch are of high quality and there is no dramatic outlier (good or bad), except for the Rum Sponge. While I enjoyed the nose, on the palate the bottling is overwhelmed by wine notes. As for a lot of finished/double matured releases I just don’t see the point and here don’t like it particularly. Among the other bottlings: the DT is particularly nicely balanced with a pleasant sweetness working nicely with herbal and more darker notes. Very enjoyable. My favorite on the palate is probably the younger Greenheart (at least in this sitting). Almost as balanced as the DT but with a bit more anise and herbal notes for a bit more excitement. The older Greenheart is also very nice, with a bit less sweetness yet also very nicely balanced. TWJ and The Duchess are overall a bit more in the harsher side concerning alcohol integration, yet still very good. Very strong bottlings of the vinatage overall and a pleasure to have some side by side. Cheers to Alex for curating (most of) the tasting set! 🙌
Review by zabo
RumX Calendar Day 21 At first I had also guessed Guyana. Then it was Caroni Tasting and Christmas Meeting. So I sipped the last drops from the glass 5 hours later. Can that be LEAD? All in all, very good
Review by Christian Rudt
RumX-Kalender 2023/ Nr 21 … sehr viel Menthol in der Nase…am Gaumen Kräuter und viel Bitterkeit. Passt irgendwie zum Wetter gerade. Könnte ein kontinental gereifter Port Mourant sein… Hatte dann später einen Poisson vermut, so kann man sich gänzlich ins Abseits raten. Nach der Auflösung ist das enmore Profil gut erkennbar... mir in der Nase etwas zu medizinisch bietet der Rum am Gaumen eine hohe Komplexität, die ihre Zeit im Glas braucht, im Finish mit Mischung aus Frucht, Bleistift ein paar Kräutern Kein einfaches Teil aber schon ein sehr gutes. Mit viel Zeit allerdings mit auch etwas zu bitter
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
This is a great rum. As soon as you pop the bottle the fruits are there and once rested the smoky wood just comes at you. Very fruity with menthol and leather on top. A very complex and well balanced rum. Luckily I have two of these bottles available :-)
Review by Rare Akuma
#24DaysOfRum2023 - Day 21 Joyful on the nose, combining wood spice and old leather jacket with dried apricots, popcorn and dry curacao. If anything, it’s sweeter than what I’m used to. Sitting still, this Enmore is musty and mineral with long-steeped green tea and clay. Agitated the aroma is much different than when idle. Immediately after swirling; a plethora of flowers and following in its steps: bicycle tube and citrus oils. Vastly different, but a welcome surprise and an absolute treat. Very elegant entry with marzipan, dried apricots and orange peel in the mouth before dropping an overwhelming flavor bomb of spice, cask char, leather and bitter chocolate. Moderate length. Initially especially floral and specifically pleasant, then quickly woody and overly dry. My only point of critique being: much too dry, as I found myself snacking for water. I found many of the other reviews much too harsh. Take your time with this one.
Review by FabiDram
RumX Adventskalender 2023 Tag 21
Review by Tschusikowsky
Rum X Advent 21.12.2023 Was blind at a Guyana, tends to be Uitvlugt. More on the continental side. But somehow also PM. Overall, the rum doesn't convince me, is rather too inharmonious. Strong wood and herbal notes and the alcohol is rather biting, despite the low ABV. I was thinking of a young bottling (<10 years). At best one of those colorful blends with PM and Uitvlugt from El Dorado itself.
Review by Pavel Spacek
Good Enmore profile, integrated. I preffer stronger taste ... Enmore - drive destilerka, nyni uz jen funkcni destilacni zarizeni. Patrne jedine drevene destilacni zarizeni na svete, ktere se tesi velke oblibe. Rumy Enmore totiz maji prichut popelu, kuze, tezkeho dreva, coz nadchne zejmena milovniky nakourenych whisky. A pokud tradicnim Guyanskym zpusobem prida vyrobce do rumu trochu melasy, mate v lahvi unikatni velmi vyrazny a tezky rum. Jeden z mych oblibenych.
Review by Vincent D
Des notes très terreuses sur cet Enmore dont l'alcool est parfaitement intégré. Il faut aimer ce profil bien dark avec du bois, du cuir, de la terre. Une fois de temps en temps je trouve ça très agréable.
Review by Mentalo
Ist einfach nicht mein bevorzugtes Profil. Davon abgesehen ist das kein schlechter Rum, aber diese holzig bitteren Noten sind doch sehr eigen bei manchen Abfüllungen aus Guyana. Vor allem wenn der Rum dazu noch recht trocken ist. Ansonsten Kräuternoten und leicht mineralisch.
Review by Alex1981
Netter Enmore, aber ein wenig dünn und bitter im Abgang.
Review by Righrum
RumX Advent calendar day 21 A typical Demerara profile, sweetness, aniseed and wet cardboard, but nonetheless it's not interesting, just missing any interesting note that can make the sipping experience exciting. Not unpleasant, just meh. But when it comes to Demerara, you always expect something more
Review by Piotr Ignasiak
RX calendar day 21 Strong barrel influence though bitterness, at the same time not intense in flavour or finish, kind of light. Burnt matches taste, medicinal.
Review by Lot-NAS
Calendar #21 / blind Oh, was ist das denn? In der Nase hätte ich zu Beginn auf Agricole getippt, vegetale Noten, Süßholz, etwas rostig, Sternanis und Vanille. Mit etwas Zeit wird’s dann würziger und etwas mineralisch. Geschmacklich dann Jägermeister-infused-Rum oder so. Prospan lässt grüßen, dazu viel Holz, recht bitter das Ganze und nicht wirklich ansprechend. Im Abgang auch eher unangenehm bitter, holzig, etwas Vanille und Orangenschale. Was das wohl ist? Irgendwas mit Prospan würde ich sagen.
Review by Martin Ekrt
Příjemné eukalypto mátové tóny. Ovoce a technické prvky. Fajnová voňavka. V chuti podobně. Sice to má plno let zrání, ale zase barva i celková jemnost naznačuje, že tu máme zrání na kontinentu. Rum je fajn, ale jako už mnohokrát mě mrzí promarněný potenciál. Tropy by z toho udělaly pecku.
Review by Martin Švojgr
za mne povedený enmore, trošku ostřejší, čekal jsem v porovnání s ostatními plněními z té doby jemnější profil
Review by Michal S
OK Enmore, vůně s tóny sušeného ovoce mně baví víc než zemitá nakouřená chuť.
Review by Buddudharma
RumX Adventskalender 21.12.23: Ich bin eigentlich auch eher bei kontinental gelagertem PM, kann hier kaum Agricole-Noten entdecken. Der Rum holt mich wenig ab, die typischen PM-Noten werden hier nicht durch Frucht oder Süße, sondern durch medizinische und bittere Noten ergänzt, eher suboptimal. Tippe mal auf 18 Jahre kontinental, 55-60%.
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Read full review →It's a nice solid sign off from The Duchess. Price wise its not ridiculous bearing in mind we have a 28 year old rum. I'd imagine most people looking to drop this type of money on a rum like this will be pretty clued up on how it may taste....
Details about The Duchess Enmore Guyana 1990
A Pot Still Rum from Guyana, bottled by The Duchess, at 54,9%.
Community purchases
25 bottles logged by 23 collectors.
A drinker & collector.
32% opened, 5 emptied and repurchased.
What did the community pay for The Duchess Enmore Guyana 1990?
Community paid 200–252 €.
What members actually paid for their bottles. A typical range, not the current shop price. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
25 purchased · 41 tasted · 9 wishlist · as of
About the Enmore distillery
The Enmore distillery is located in Guyana. Rums from Enmore have been reviewed 4,653 times with an average of 8.8/10.
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