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Velier Clarendon Monymusk MBS 2010
Blind, most people guess Barbados or Foursquare, not Jamaica — there's almost no funk here. What you get instead is grated coconut, vanilla, milk chocolate and ripe tropical fruit over light oak and pepper. Creamy, rounded and surprisingly easy at 62%. A few tasters wish it had more edges, but most find it a gentle, "pastry-forward" Clarendon that rewards 20 minutes in the glass.
The community says- Creamy coconut, cocoa
- Fruit-forward, no funk
- But: Short finish
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How does Velier Clarendon Monymusk MBS 2010 taste?
Aggregated from 179 community reviews.
Coconut, vanilla, cocoa — Jamaica without the funk Loved as a soft, coconut-and-cocoa Clarendon that drinks like a Foursquare, not a funky Jamaican. The catch: low ester, short-to-medium finish, and some find it too tame.
People who like rounded, pastry-sweet Jamaicans without the funk
Anyone chasing high-ester Jamaican funk
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What does the community say?
94% rate it 8 or higher. 15 selected write-ups from 179 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Rhum Mirror 🇧🇪
On the nose, it's unmistakably Jamaican, and very fruity. Sweet, dried fruits (apricot and mango). A little wood, vanilla and milk chocolate. The nose is very gourmand and accessible, but not very complex. On the palate, there's pep but the alcohol is perfectly integrated. It's greedy, with exotic fruits shaping the profile. Then there's some lovely wood, tobacco and spice. Very pleasant on the palate, a pleasure to savor. The finish is long, with a very fruity profile. The conclusion is simple: a beautiful Jam', perfectly balanced but above all very accessible.
Review by Clément Boetto🤤🇫🇷
Most helpful positive review
Close to a Foursquare with coconut,vanilla,cocoa,precious wood.the little extra (exotic fruits,peach)and a pastry side (marshmallow).excellent 🤤
Review by Richard Krupa
Most helpful mixed review
Za me lepsi jak Camridge
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
Nice underdog in the Jamaica range. Zero funky but all the more fruity and palatable after banana bread, milk chocolate with hazelnuts, black pepper, wood, honey and cocoa. very tasty and still relatively affordable and readily available! 😃👏🏼
Review by Mirko Frosini 🇮🇪
I was expecting much more! A good rum that does not take off, however. The "sweet/pastry" aromas are barely hinted at, coconut and vanilla prevail. You can feel the imprint of continuous distillation, which in my opinion does not always succeed in giving magical rums. Medium unimpressive finish. It does not sound like a Jamaican at all, but a Barbados.
Review by DomM
High quality column still which is very enjoyable - yet the alcohol is clearly noticeable. Would not have guessed Clarendon but there is just a little extra touch of fruits alongside your classic (high quality) column still notes which adds an interesting twist.
Review by Rodolphe
I tasted this rum again years later. I'm now more familiar with Jamaican distilleries. My opinion of the pastry register hasn't changed, here no fruity funk but lots of greed, essentially woody (coconut, vanilla, spices, blond tobacco, nuts). Almost a foursquare profile 😅Super nice. It went out at 100€ a keel, a bargain at that price today.
Review by Thunderbird
A very good, but not outstanding MM, I miss the corners, edges and intensity. It has all the important markers (tropical fruit, vanilla, pastry, honey, some cocoa), but everything is very soft... and drinkable. There are much better MM
Review by TheJackDrop
"Quite simply my favorite in the cellar. Coconut, fruity, cocoa, intense, complex but not aggressive, it's really my style! To sum up, my tasting notes: On the nose: Coconut, Cocoa, Viennese pastries, Tobacco, Peaches. On the palate: Dried fruit, Coconut, Viennese pastries, Cocoa, Almond, Woody, Creamy, Delicious, Concentrated Finish: Cocoa, Tropical fruit, Peppery".
Review by zabo
Edit edit: 😉 Opened another fresh bottle (thanks to SaibotZtar) deliciously adjusted upwards again. The price was already good for what it can do. Very tasty, thanks @Serge well chosen. Flavor profile super hit. And a good counter to yesterday's tasting. Edit: After I found the sample with a little bit left in it, I had to try it again. It was worth getting a bottle of it back then. But still had to adjust it down a bit.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Another great Velier in my mind. Once rested you get all the wonderful flavours from the glass even without lifting the glass to your nose. An intense very well balanced Clarendon. Fruity with light wood and it draws really nice curtains in the glass.
Review by Joachim Guger
Very good sipper, lots of coconut, needs water.In my opinion a good alternative to Velier Antigua.
Review by LukaŽiga
8,7:On the nose, the first thing we get is caramelized-like pastry, on a bit roasted touch, with some parfum on high tropical fruits estery rum. It becomes spicy and bourbon-like with some yellow fruits-apricot, orange peel, then coconut, burnt sugar and a bit vegetal. Aeration brings out more robust notes as toasted wood, roasted nuts and chocolate, fruits are now candied. Out of nowhere rubber arises... Giving the rum some nice rest, it becomes thicker with dark molasses, sweet cocoa, dried fruits and is a bit smoky. The rum is now very round and balanced. 8,6:On the palate, the attack is creamy with pastry and bourbon yellow fruit notes in. Becomes a bit dry and syrupy as yellow fruits become dried, with sweet spices, vanilla, honeyed and caramelized wood. Underneath are some musty/ashy notes. The rum is delicious and warm now, there are nuts, ginger, citrus and medicinal notes. When well rested, as on the nose, the dark side of the palate arises with thick molasses and is a bit roasted, going more perfumed and with some rose water, underpined with a hint of dried fruits. 8,3:The finish is long, woody, dry, quite fresh, a bit astringent, bitter with with tannins, yellow fruits. If we really wait, becomes warm with some baking spices, pastry notes and later tastier with milky cocoa and dried fruits underneath. Edit:31.12.25, an upgrade 0,1
Review by Leo Krüper
I would never have come across Monymusk blind. Maybe not even to Jamaica. Really shallow vanilla notes, Belize/Foursquare-like. Super relaxed sipper, also suitable for beginners who want to try a high %.
Review by Vincent D
Another tasting a few years after the first. I remembered a much more exuberant profile. Here, the nose is rather discreet. You can tell where the rum comes from, and you can make out a few esters, but the profile is restrained. On the palate, however, it's much better than I remember. Wood, caramel, esters, ripe fruit, coconut, vanilla. Very pleasant. Nice length on identical markers.
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Auction results 131 € – 132 €
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Details about Velier Clarendon Monymusk MBS 2010
A Column Still Rum from Jamaica, bottled by Velier, at 62%.
Community purchases
248 bottles logged by 195 collectors.
A drinker & collector.
28% opened, 28 emptied and repurchased.
What does Velier Clarendon Monymusk MBS 2010 cost?
Community paid 80–127 €.
Current best price: 158.02 € – above the typical community range.
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+5 purchases in the last 3 months.
Added to collections, last 12 months — dark bars are the last 3.
248 purchased · 183 tasted · 76 wishlist · as of
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