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Excellence Rhum Travellers L'odyssée le bar de l'ours 2005
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If you love dessert-sweet, pastry-heavy rum and don't flinch at cask strength, this Belize Travellers is aimed right at you. Think milk chocolate, vanilla cake, toffee and praline, with coconut and dried fruit for lift. At 65.4% the heat arrives on the palate, but most tasters find the alcohol surprisingly well tucked into all that roundness.
The community says- Dessert-rich nose
- Coconut and chocolate
- But: High-proof heat
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How does Excellence Rhum Travellers L'odyssée le bar de l'ours 2005 taste?
Summarized by AI from 30 community reviews.
Rich, pastry-sweet cask-strength Belize Most tasters call it a rich, "extrêmement gourmand" Belize — chocolate, vanilla and caramel over spiced wood. The 65.4% integrates well for most, though one felt the alcohol just hit hard with little else.
Fans of sweet, pastry-driven Belize rum who handle high proof
Anyone wanting dry, low-strength or funky rum
Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat
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Positive from 8.0 · Mixed 6.0–7.9 · Critical below 6.0
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Most helpful positive review
#6129 26.12.2025 Second day after Christmas and my stomach is finally back to normal, more or less. Time for some nice EDM to blast out in my office while the wife watches Friends...... Nose Medium intense, fruity, floral, spice, light anise, banana, light citrus, faint coconut. Palate Medium intense, fruity, light wood, naturally sweet, spicy, light salt, anise, banana, light honey. Finish Long and warm, light mango, anise, light chocolate, light floral. Empty glass Chocolate, licorice, light mint, mango, light floral. Very good ABV integration after resting for a while.
Review by Maxime Clr 🇫🇷
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Very disappointed. I didn't find the alcohol well integrated, it hits hard on the tongue and not much else happens. A nice nose though, but very very disappointed with the palate.
Review by TheRhumhoe
Excellence Rhum has selected here the excellence of Belize. The nose is intensely gourmand with pastry notes: toffee, caramel, viennoiseries, praline, biscuit and brown sugar give the impression of baking a cake. Chocolate, vanilla, chili, nutmeg and roasted wood amplify the roundness of the profile. Coconut and raisins bring fruit and freshness to the whole. A rich, sweet and generous nose. The palate is a striking contrast between power and indulgence. The sweet and pastry notes described above flood the palate, while spices (chili, nutmeg), wood and tobacco warm the profile with the alcohol. The latter is relatively well integrated given its strength and the fact that it is drowned in sweetness. Milk chocolate, coffee and coconut with raisins are also found. The profile is round and extremely drinkable, to the great pleasure of the taste buds. Aeration also does it good. The finish is light and dry, stripped of some of the sugar contained in the liquid. There remains a spicy, chocolatey, caffeinated and above all woody trace, with a bit of coconut and caramel as a bonus, but this remains less marked. A particularly tasty and intense Belize, which has nothing to envy to other releases of the kind.
Review by TheJona'Spirits
Already one bottle opened and finished with family. Tonight we take the time to dissect it. 👃 What a treat! Pastry scents dominate this dram; homemade hot milk chocolate with its fine layer of cooked milk, Bourbon vanilla cake, caramel candies, praline, toffee, a steaming coffee, all in a finely melted and spiced woodiness (mild kitchen spices, cinnamon, nutmeg) without perceiving the 65 horses. Some fruity notes appear without being dominant; dried and candied fruits, fresh coconut, light tropical fruits. 😋 Contrast with the nose, the alcohol tickles the taste buds, but it does it sublimely. For a moment the start of the palate is pastry and indulgent then comes a power, an aromatic intensity. Spicy, peppery, vanilla woodiness. Fruits oscillate between dry and candied not knowing which way to go. Dry freshness on tobacco leaves that make the transition to the finish. ⛳ The spicy, vanilla, peppery, chocolatey woodiness that evolves towards some bitter citrus, a bit of heated caramel that turns to licorice. It lasts very long on a fresh and mentholated side. 💡 Really a nice selection from Justin at Bar de l'Ours. In the top of what a very old Belize can offer taste-wise.
Review by Benoit Mahe
An extremely indulgent, pastry-like and vanilla rum. The strength is controlled and the alcohol well integrated. It's very pleasant. The spices and strength balance the indulgence, preventing it from being cloying. Very nice coherence between nose and palate. Honestly, it's a nice surprise.
Review by mto75
First of all: a really good traveler! Coconut, praline, orange candy, wooden barrel on the nose. Very soft on the palate (despite the high ABV) with nutmeg, milk chocolate, grapefruit.
Review by Djehey
Comparative tasting of Belize Fruity and pastry profile. Maintains a certain freshness (citrus) with woodiness not too present. Even though the alcohol is well integrated, it remains strong (+60°).
Review by Morgan Garet
The nose is extremely indulgent, with caramel, coconut, chocolate, and vanilla. Slight notes of wood and solvents enhance the character of this nose. Impossible to guess the 65% with all this roundness. On the palate, grapefruit attacks first, which the nose did not predict at all. Then it returns to the same indulgent notes as the nose. The finish is long on vanilla, wood, and ultra-dominant grapefruit. It's delicious, you can spend 30 minutes on a few drops.
Review by Mc Pirate
Extremely flattering nose on vanilla, wood and especially oak cask, even tropical fruits. Very strong palate but it opens up into an explosion of flavors, candy, sugar and what roundness!! Finish with a slight bitterness and nail polish, certainly due to the bottle opening.
Review by raphael galak
👃 coconut like doucelette, almost you can smell coconut cream, a hint of allspice, a smell of banana plant (banana with the smell of the wet and fresh plant), the wood and alcohol blend well 👄 it’s lively, we have quite deep flavors. The wood is there but slides over the coconut, alcohol well integrated with just a little throat effect. The image that comes to mind is a Robinson (local soft cake with dry coconut jam and guava marmalade). Wow. Strength and finesse for this rum. Finish rather long and fresh
Review by Pavel Ungr, RumRock
Vintage 2005. I rate 8.3 out of 10, very good rum.
Review by Jacques etdom
The nose of Belize, vanilla, coconut and milk chocolate. On the palate, a real impression of a Belize - New Grove blend. The nose is still there, but with a typical New Grove framework added. Finish a bit below. An excellent rum, especially for a fan of the two aforementioned origins.
Review by Kieron Wood
I tasted this in a rhum shop so didn't have time to write a review notes but managed to rate it
Review by John Coffey
A great success this Bélize, a country I know little about.. A slight woodiness on the nose and palate with a crazy explosion of red fruits and nuts!! Only the length is a bit lacking but honestly it's all good.
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34 bottles logged by 32 collectors.
Both drunk and collected.
23% opened, 2 emptied.
What did the community pay for Excellence Rhum Travellers L'odyssée le bar de l'ours 2005?
Community paid 140–145 €.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 145 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
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Details about Excellence Rhum Travellers L'odyssée le bar de l'ours 2005
A Column Still Rum from Belize, bottled by Excellence Rhum, at 65.4%.
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