51.61%. The number behind our next bottling. →
Distillery

Diamond

Diamond is the address, not the company. It is the plant south of Georgetown where every still worth keeping in Guyana finally ended up, and where the last wooden stills on Earth still run. On a label, Diamond usually means the rum came from this site's own metal columns rather than from one of the rescued estate stills.

  • Runs Guyana's heritage wooden stills
  • Distinct marques: PM, Enmore, Skeldon
  • Dark, complex Demerara profile
Loved by cigares, Eric Frechin, Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰 & over 3,500 more

RumX market intelligence

As of August 2026

Community score
8.3/10
ratings
5,370
bottles catalogued
391
available to buy now
122
RumX Guide

The address where Guyana's stills ended up

Read the full guide

Find your rum

The community's favourite for every occasion, from 310,000 ratings — next to it every bottle that fits.

Top-rated rums from Diamond

Ranked by community score, available bottles first.

Browse all rums from Diamond

Explore our complete collection. Filter by price, rating, distillery, age, and more to find your perfect rum.

Filters

Sort by

Filters

Price (€)

Custom range
Availability

Real market price drops instead of discount labels: RumX monitors 40+ shops around the clock. A drop only counts when the price falls below the previously lowest market price (at least −5%) — we never show shops' own strike-through prices.

Rating

Taste & style

Character
Only rums with a clear character profile
Intensity
For cocktails and mixing: quick filters above the results

Origin

Measured or declared by the producer
Community classified, covers part of the catalog
No bottles from Diamond are in stock right now. You're browsing the full archive. Set a price alert

No rums found matching your criteria

Try adjusting your search criteria or clearing some filters.

Best value from Diamond

Highest community ratings for the price, from live offers.

The Diamond lineup compared

Which bottling is the better one is decided neither by price nor by the age on the label. Here they stand side by side, sorted by the community's median rating. The number of ratings sits next to it: a high score from few voices says less than a middling one from many.

BottlingAgeABVCommunity scorePrice
Velier Diamond Old Demerara Rum SV 1988 Column Still Rum18 years · 59%18 years59%9.7/10 13 reviews107,132 €
Velier Diamond <>W 1993 Column Still Rum12 years · 61,4%12 years61,4%9.4/10 22 reviews15,250 €
Velier Diamond SVW 1996 Column Still Rum15 years · 64,6%15 years64,6%9.3/10 75 reviews1,382 €
Velier Diamond S<W> 1981 31 years · 60,1%31 years60,1%9.2/10 53 reviews2,880 €
Velier Diamond <S> 1999 Column Still Rum15 years · 53,1%15 years53,1%9.1/10 64 reviews794 €
Diamond El Dorado Rare Collection <SVW>DLR 1998 20 years · 55,1%20 years55,1%9.0/10 125 reviews307 €
Velier Diamond SVW 1999 15 years · 64,7%15 years64,7%9.0/10 68 reviews762 €
Velier Diamond SSN 1996 16 years · 63,4%16 years63,4%9.0/10 33 reviews1,089 €

157 bottlings meet the minimum rating count; the 24 best-rated are shown. The rest are in the grid below.

Only bottlings with at least 10 ratings are included. Anything below that is not a sound basis for comparison.

Diamond vintages

Single cask bottlings often carry the year of distillation. The vintage page shows what else went into cask that same year.

2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2014 2013 2012 2011 Explore Rums by Vintage Year →

Community purchases

3,615 bottles from Diamond bought by the community.

+58 purchases in the last 3 months.

Added to collections, last 12 months — dark bars are the last 3.

as of

How the crew scored it Diamond

RumX’s 0–10 scale is strict: 8.3 sits in the “Very good” band. 92% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 1% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →

Flavour profile of Diamond

Top aromas · nose & palate
Woody59%
Vanilla41%
Dried fruit38%
Caramel35%
Roasted31%
Spicy25%

271 of 391 bottles have detailed tasting notes · Click an aroma to explore similar rums

The RumX Guide to Diamond

The address where Guyana's stills ended up

Diamond sits on the east bank of the Demerara river south of Georgetown, on ground granted to John Carter in 1753 and worked as a sugar estate ever since. It is the only rum distillery left in Guyana, operated by Demerara Distillers, and it is where the country's surviving equipment was concentrated after the last consolidation in 2000.

It is usually said that Diamond inherited the equipment of the estates that closed around it. That is generous. Most of those stills were scrapped. Four sets survived the century: the Port Mourant double wooden vat, the Versailles single wooden vat, the Enmore wooden Coffey, and the French Savalle columns from Uitvlugt. Everything else that carries an old estate name is a style rebuilt on the equipment that made it here.

What actually runs here

Roughly fourteen sets of apparatus, producing 24 distinct marks. The famous four are the wooden ones: Port Mourant, Versailles, Enmore and the Savalle columns from Uitvlugt, which alone recreates nine marks including those of Albion and Skeldon.

The rest is Diamond's own: two Coffey stills from the 1950s making the SVW mark, a small John Dore pot making the high-ester DHE, and two modern vacuum columns for the lighter styles. When a bottle just says Diamond, this is usually the part of the plant it came from.

There is a neat irony in that. In 1908 the Great Diamond estate ran both a Coffey still and a vat still, and in that era both were almost certainly built of local greenheart. Diamond scrapped its own wooden stills and moved to metal. A century later it is the last place on Earth where wooden stills run at all.

Reading a Diamond bottle

Diamond has its own marks, separate from the estate ones. SVW is the one documented here as far back as the 1950s and is probably the site's original style. You will also meet DLR, MDR and MDS on independent bottlings.

The angle brackets you see in bottle names, like <S> or S<W>, are our way of writing a letter that was drawn inside a diamond shape on the original cask. It is the site's own symbol, which is why it shows up here and, as a borrowed convention, on a few other estates' marks too.

Because so much passes through this one address, a bottle labelled Diamond is not always the same thing as a bottle labelled with an estate name that was distilled at Diamond. The mark is what settles it. We decode the full set on the Guyana marks table.

Most popular vs highest rated

Diamond is our deepest Guyanese catalogue: 391 bottles and more than 5,300 community ratings, at a median of 8.1/10. That is a full point above the official El Dorado range, and the reason is the same everywhere in Guyana: nearly all of it is independent, single-mark and bottled at strength.

The most reviewed bottle here is the El Dorado Rare Collection SVW DLR 1998 at 9.0/10 across 125 ratings, which is unusual: normally the most popular bottle is not also near the top. The ceiling belongs to Velier, whose Diamond SVW 1996 sits at 9.3/10 and whose 1993 and 1981 vintages score higher still.

Frequently Asked Questions about Diamond

Nearly, but not quite. Demerara Distillers is the company and the owner of the El Dorado brand. Diamond is the plant it operates, south of Georgetown. On a bottle, Diamond usually points at rum from the site’s own metal stills, while an estate name like Port Mourant or Enmore points at one of the rescued stills that also live there.

No. Four sets survived: the Port Mourant double wooden vat, the Versailles single wooden vat, the Enmore wooden Coffey and the Savalle columns from Uitvlugt. The stills of Albion, Skeldon, Blairmont and La Bonne Intention did not. Those estates’ styles are recreated on the equipment that did survive, mostly the French Savalle column.

SVW is Diamond’s own mark, documented at the site as far back as the 1950s, and probably its original style. It is made on the Coffey stills installed there in that decade. It is not an estate mark, which is why you will find it on bottles labelled Diamond rather than with an old plantation name.

Because the original cask mark drew the letter inside a diamond shape, the site’s own symbol, and angle brackets are the closest we can get in plain text. So a name written with a letter in brackets means that letter sat inside a diamond on the cask. Different bottlers transcribe it slightly differently, which is why you see several variants.

RumX offers the world’s largest selection of rum through our innovative shop-in-shop marketplace, similar to Amazon. For Diamond rums, we currently have 239 offers starting from €28.90 across 38 partner shops including Rum Piraten, Wein-Riegger, Rum & Co, delicando, Whiskysite.nl, MALVA. Our platform compares prices in real-time from specialized rum retailers worldwide, ensuring you always find the best deals.

The RumX database currently contains 391 different rums from Diamond. This includes various expressions, limited editions, and bottlings across different age statements and proof levels. Our community has contributed over 5370 reviews for Diamond rums, making it one of the most comprehensive resources for exploring this brand’s full range. New releases are added regularly as they become available.

According to the RumX community, Velier Diamond Old Demerara Rum SV 1988 18yr 59% is currently the highest-rated Diamond rum with an impressive rating of 9.7/10 based on 13 reviews. This expression has earned praise for its exceptional quality and represents the pinnacle of what Diamond has to offer. However, taste is subjective, and we encourage you to explore the full range to find your personal favorite.
Price alerts · in the RumX app

Unlock the Full RumX Experience

Love rums from Diamond? The journey doesn't stop here. Download the RumX app to explore an even more extensive selection of rums from Diamond and around the world. With features like collection management, personalized recommendations, tasting notes, and a bustling community of rum enthusiasts, our free app offers the ultimate rum experience, right in your pocket.

Download on the App Store Get it on Google Play
★ 4.8/5 on App Store & Play Store

Rating guide

RumX's 0–10 scale is strict. Here's what each band means.

9.0–10.0 Excellent Stash as many as you can afford. Tell no one.
8.0–8.9 Very good Bank a backup. Tell everyone you meet.
7.0–7.9 Good Buy one and recommend it to your friends.
6.0–6.9 Pleasant Solid, super glad I drank it.
5.0–5.9 Average Totally acceptable.
4.0–4.9 Drinkable Not vocally complaining.
3.0–3.9 Poor Wish I was drinking something else.
2.0–2.9 Very poor Nothing nice to say.
1.0–1.9 Unpleasant No, that's not for me.
0.1–0.9 Inedible Pour it out.