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Vidya New Yarmouth The River Mumma 2005
Nail polish, overripe pineapple and glue hit first, then the palate turns tart — bitter orange, passion fruit, a little vanilla and oak spice. This is a full-throttle New Yarmouth: ester-heavy, sour, and warming at cask strength. A few drops of water round it off nicely. One taster mistook it for a high-ester Hampden, and several found it a touch less acidic than other funk bombs.
The community says- Massive ester funk
- Long fruity finish
- Well-integrated ABV
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How does Vidya New Yarmouth The River Mumma 2005 taste?
Aggregated from 28 community reviews.
Full-throttle, ester-heavy Jamaican funk bomb Members love this ester-forward New Yarmouth — glue, overripe fruit and a long tart finish. Cask strength and sour on the palate, so a splash of water helps most drinkers.
Fans of high-ester Jamaican funk who want it cask strength
Beginners, or anyone put off by sour, solvent-heavy rum
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What does the community say?
4% rate it between 6 and 8. 14 selected write-ups from 28 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
My expectations were 100% fulfilled here. The 2 additional years in the barrel round off the already very cool 2005 New Yarmouth very much, here are almost no more corners and edges to be found and thus becomes extremely sweet! Banana bread, strawberry cream candy & glue meets cookie dough, meets tropical fruits like passion fruit and blood orange, then roasted almonds, some dark chocolate with espresso bean shavings and sea salt and then almost foursquare-like notes of coconut, caramel and banana, all underpainted by beautifully intense esters. Very, very tasty, I really like it!
Review by Oliver
The nose already makes a clear announcement: Ester full blast! Marzipan, fermented fruit and nail polish. The palate is insanely intense with tropical, (overripe) fruits, varnish and marzipan. With a few drops of water, the nose opens up again and the (brut) rum becomes more approachable. Wow, this high ester rum is really fun!Great representative of Funky New Yarmouth! Since I look forward to a cross-tastings with the rums of CDI.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
This one was the odd one out at the tasting and what a way to close the evening. A very fresh and fruity rum once rested. The balance between the flavors is almost a perfect symphony and I like how well the ABV has been integrated. The flavours were there from opening and pouring and the empty glas was really nice at the end of the evening.
Review by mto75
ester level in the red range 😜 This is then also confirmed by a look at the Vidya website: Marque NYE/WM, so on par with HD C<>H. So it comes across on the nose, fermented fruit, sour buttermilk, and neat nail polish. The fine pastry notes that are often added to the high-ester HDs, I can't find here, unfortunately. The palate is less brute, more spice (somehow also spice like peppernuts) and wood barrel. The finish is quite 'digestible' compared to the often quite sour HD high-ester colleagues ... I like it overall!
Review by Skyfly
Wow .. erstmal ein großes Danke an Crazyforgoodbooze, dass er mir dieses Schlückchen überlassen hat. Habe selten einen so ausgewogenen, fast perfekten NY05 im Glas gehabt - jetzt geht die Jagd nach einer Flasche los!
Review by Mike H.
87 points. Very nice nose with a ton of flavors. Even more flavors in the mouth but rather easy sipping. A great NY with tons of nail polish, fermented fruits and a good dose of esters.
Review by RumTaTa
Nose: full can of esters! Glue and (overripe) pineapple. A few drops of water make the rum seem rounder.Mouth: very warming with a bitter fruitiness. The barrel is noticeable here. The flavors from the nose repeat powerfully, great!Finish: nice smooth transition to dark chocolate with candied orange peelAn extremely powerful Jamaica rum. I could just smell it for hours, very tasty!
Review by Thunderbird
An absolute top rum! New Yarmouth of the finest kind!
Review by Mirco
Kräftiger New Yarmouth mit hohem Estergehalt und intensiver Frucht. In der Nase dominieren Klebstoff, Ananas und überreife Tropenfrüchte, begleitet von einer leichten Zitrusnote. Am Gaumen entfalten sich Noten von Bitterorange, Vanille und eine dezente Holzwürze. Der Alkohol ist gut eingebunden und verleiht dem Rum eine angenehme Wärme. Ein ausgewogener und komplexer Rum, der sich knapp hinter dem SBS einreiht.
Review by Benoit Mahe
A very seductive rum, a beautiful tropical fruit salad.
Review by Zorman 🇩🇰
Nose is very good with High-Ester notes of polish and a bit of oak. Palate is very sour. Finish is long.
Review by Maarten Leewis 🇳🇱
Love it, love it! Need more!
Review by Léo Delek
Confondu avec un c<>h de hampden ... petite pépite. J'aime bcp car on a de la longueur, de la fraîcheur, de la gourmandise, ... tout ça sans que ça attaque de trop non plus, un peu moins acide que d'autres high esters que j'ai pu goûter. On a du beurre rance, des fruits mûrs, avec les solvants un peu moins presents que sur d'autres high esters. Très bien
Review by Kieron Wood
Nose of acetone , rum ,slight honey , Small bit of oak . 2nd nosing canned peaches in the background 1st tasting front palletter Oranges , more acetone , FUNK Mid pallete Oak and Jamaican heaven Finish Goes on for a long time , more fruity notes with high powered finish of rum
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Expert review by The Fat Rum Pirate
Read full review →This is a very funky high ester Jamaican rum but the 15 years of ageing have given it an added layer of "aged spirit". I can't think of any other way to put it. I've not had a bad rum from New Yarmouth as yet and this one certainly hasn't...
Details about Vidya New Yarmouth The River Mumma 2005
A rum from Jamaica, bottled by Vidya, at 61,5%.
Community purchases
22 bottles logged by 18 collectors.
A drinker & collector.
18% opened, 1 emptied and repurchased.
What did the community pay for Vidya New Yarmouth The River Mumma 2005?
Community paid 138–151 €.
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About the New Yarmouth distillery
The New Yarmouth distillery is located in Jamaica. Rums from New Yarmouth have been reviewed 3,402 times with an average of 8.7/10.
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