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Rhum House Domaine de Courcelles Rhum Vieux Édition 2014 1972
Here's the surprise: at 54% and 38 years old, this molasses rum from the ghost distillery Courcelles drinks like it's barely 40% — soft, floral, and full of cherry. Tasters find amarena and sour cherry, marzipan, vanilla, honey and a gentle roasted-coffee edge, with wood that stays quiet despite the age. Many actually mistake it for an old agricole in blind tastings.
The community says- Cherry and marzipan
- Alcohol perfectly integrated
- Elegant restrained oak
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How does Rhum House Domaine de Courcelles Rhum Vieux Édition 2014 1972 taste?
Aggregated from 61 community reviews.
Soft, cherry-and-marzipan old Guadeloupe rarity Nearly everyone falls for this one — cherry, marzipan and honey wrapped around perfectly buried alcohol. The only recurring quibble is a finish some wish ran longer.
Collectors of old ghost-distillery rums who love fruity, floral profiles
Anyone wanting a long, oak-heavy finish or who dislikes marzipan
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98% rate it 8 or higher. 20 selected write-ups from 61 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Jakob
Most helpful positive review
Exquisite, yellow fruits meet noble spicy notes and honey sweetness. Despite its great age, the wood is in no way intrusive or otherwise unpleasantly perceptible, on the contrary - the balance is almost perfect. A great bottling.
Review by Tropheus80
Most helpful mixed review
Tag 17 Rum X Adventskalender Interessant, trifft aber leider nicht mein Geschmack.
Review by Mirco
Expressive and profound bottling, for me the strongest from the Rum House range. Complex aromas with ripe fruit, fine spice and elegant wood notes. Intense and multi-layered despite the moderate drinking strength. The differences to the other releases are minor, but everything seems a little more harmonious here. Exceptional quality, especially in relation to the price.
Review by Thunderbird
RumX calendar 17: WOW: what a great rum... an unusual delicate floral-fruity nose, the palate is complex, fruity, with vanilla, roasted, caramelized and coffee! The finish is medium long and creamy... Absolutely top Re-tasting at Dr. Django: This Courcelles is really terrific and quite special in terms of flavors. I would also like a bottle of this
Review by cigares
A rum still in stock in Switzerland. Remarkably sweet on the nose, despite the 54%, with amarena cherry, roasted notes, vegetal and floral notes, and marzipan. Very smooth on the palate, as if this rum (which is not an agricole) was made at 40%! Balanced and elegant, with deep fruit and floral aromas. Morello cherry galore and a taste of dark chocolate. A remarkably well-balanced, delicious rum! The empty glass is still very rich in flavors around red fruits with lots of cherry 🍒 Compared to the 2022 version, it's more direct and less mysterious. There's no tar on the nose to complicate the aromatics, and the palate has a citrus edge that the 2022 version doesn't have.
Review by DomM
Let’s keep this brief: delightful stuff! Intense and complex on the nose as well as on the palate. Intense with a very long finish. Right after the Velier release clearly number two in the range. Cheers Jakib for the set.
Review by Tschusikowsky
Intensiv, perfekte Balance, vielschichtig, lang anhaltender Abgang. Was ganz geiles! Exquisite! Französische Rums haben teilweise eine Eleganz, die seinesgleichen sucht.
Review by Serge
Blind Community Tasting Courcelles 1972 by Jakob. Danke für die Orga Jakob👌 Fruchtig mit viel roten Früchten. Hier vor allem auch Kirschen / Sauerkirschen. Parfum, Vanille, Am Gaumen Honig. Ein tolles Profil. Mein Tipp: Ist das der 2014
Review by Galli33
#17th dec RumXCalendar Blind tasting: Nose: cherry, mirabelle plum, red fruits, mango, woody, spicy Mouth: cherry, caramelized, honey, roasted, woody Finish: long, oak, woody, delicious, cherry, mirabelle plum, creamy, bitter, smoky, salty It’s a really nice agricole with a lovely fruity hint of cherries and mirabelle plum, which rest for a long time in mouth and the empty glass too. The alcohol is integrated very well My prediction: I’ll go again with Martinique ca. 50% approx. 20 Years
Review by Leo Krüper
Marzipan Note in Nase und Mund. Ich bin kein Fan von Marzipan :D. Sehr komplex, viele Waldkräuter. Frisch geöffnete Flasche, die sicher noch gut oxidieren wird.
Review by mto75
Hammer, the rum! There's a lot on the nose at once, and it changes the longer the rum is in the glass. You can smell it for hours! It's really difficult to capture everything: Vanilla, apricot, baking spice, mango, allspice, floral, honey. It also reminds me of Rockleys, especially the Plantation Extreme 1986. Roasty on the palate, vanilla, dark chocolate, cask. A real pearl!
Review by TheRhumhoe
Un vieux rhum à l’ancienne qui a gardé beaucoup de saveurs et de peps pour son âge. Le nez est très fruité, avec de jolies épices, des notes de tabac, de bois, un léger voile rôti et des saveurs de crème brûlée très agréables. En bouche, l’attaque est sèche mais délicieuse, embaumée d’épices, de moka, de chocolat, de tabac, de notes rôties, des fruits secs et de banane. L’alcool est très bien intégré, même si une petite pointe alcoolique subsiste dans l’arrière-bouche. La finale est plus terne et moins marquée, mais toujours influencée par les épices, le tabac et quelques notes d’herbes, de fumée, de bois et de fruits secs. Un très beau rhum qui fait honneur à son terroir disparu.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
I have the 47 year old Courcelles and this one is pretty close to it. Very fruity with a hint of barrel and vanilla. There is a touch of smoke from the roasting and the day after the nose is very nice and chocolaty :-)
Review by Johannes
Außergewöhnliches Profil! Im Vergleich zum Velier nicht so süß, deutlich komplexer.
Review by RumTaTa
Nase: reife Aprikose und Pfirsich, wunderbar! Riecht fast wie ein entsprechender Likör, unglaublich! Später kommt süßes Gebäck hinzu und Parfüm. Gaumen: deutlich mehr Würze als die Nase vermuten läßt, daneben Mirabellenbrand. Im Nachklang noch immer Mirabellen, trockener werdend mit einem Wechselspiel der Aromen von Nase und Gaumen! Das ist ein unglaublicher Rum, wem sich die Gelegenheit zum kosten bietet - unbedingt ergreifen!
Review by Jarek
RumX Community Tasting - Domaine de Courcelles (thanks to Jakob) Four bottlings in the blind tasting, 2008, 2014 and 2022 from Rhum House and 2005 from Velier. We were quite unanimous about the winner of the evening, and how else could it be, it was the not exactly cheap Velier bottling (fruity, flowery, sweet). For me, this was followed by Rhum House 2014 (similar profile, more cherry than peach), closely followed by 2008 (very similar to 2014) and finally 2022 (less fruity in comparison, more spicy, slightly more alcoholic). But they are all very close together, sometimes more and sometimes less notes of cherry and peach (iced tea), honey or honeycomb and lots of vanilla. Very good stuff.
Review by zabo
Franconian Tasting Gang goes Tiki Wieder ein super Kracher aus Jakobs Schatztruhe Zu diesem Rum kann man nicht mehr bzw. braucht man nicht viel dazu sagen. Wenn man die Möglichkeit hat, sollte man ihn einfach probieren und genießen.
Review by N’ours
Un sublime agricole
Review by HenryL
RumX Advent calendar 17.12.: Very exciting nose, sweet and spicy, some dried fruit and nougat. Has something of a spiced rum in cool. A great interplay of aromas in the mouth too, in which the spicy notes stand out a little more, but the wood is pleasantly restrained despite the age.
Review by Manuel
RumX Tasting mit 4 x Courcelles 1972 (RX1196, RX13308, RX5448, RX2650): Besten Dank an Jakob für die tolle Möglichkeit. Was für eine tolle Nase und Geschmack nach Vanille, Zimt, Bratapfel. Weihnachten pur.
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Details about Rhum House Domaine de Courcelles Rhum Vieux Édition 2014 1972
A Column Still Rum from Guadeloupe, bottled by Rhum House, at 54%.
Community purchases
57 bottles logged by 38 collectors.
A collector's bottle.
10% opened, 2 emptied and repurchased.
What did the community pay for Rhum House Domaine de Courcelles Rhum Vieux Édition 2014 1972?
Community paid 229–322 €.
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57 purchased · 62 tasted · 30 wishlist · as of
About the Domaine de Courcelles distillery
The Domaine de Courcelles distillery is located in Guadeloupe. Rums from Domaine de Courcelles have been reviewed 242 times with an average of 9.0/10.
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