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Taste
Sugarcane, Vegetal, Spice
Most mentioned across 20 tasting notes
- Perfect for
- agricole fans who like a sweeter, gentle pour
- Less suitable for
- anyone wanting dry, punchy brut de fût
Montebello Le brut de fût 8 ans 2014
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Sipped neat, the nose sells it hard — fresh sugarcane juice, honey, lemon peel and a little roasted wood and spice. The palate is where opinions cool: sweet and syrupy up front, green and vegetal like a much younger agricole, then wood, nutmeg and a drying, sometimes bitter citrus turn. Only 47.9% for a cask strength, so it drinks soft.
The community says- Honeyed cane nose
- Easy-drinking
- Less suitable for: anyone wanting dry, punchy brut de fût
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How does Montebello Le brut de fût 8 ans 2014 taste?
From community reviews · summarized with AI
Honeyed, sweet Guadeloupe agricole, better nose than palate Most find a lovely nose that the palate doesn't quite match — sweet, gourmand and easy-drinking, if a touch unbalanced. Fans of drier, punchier agricole should look elsewhere.
Is it right for you?
Yes, if you're after bold, fresh, grassy rums for sipping neat.
agricole fans who like a sweeter, gentle pour
anyone wanting dry, punchy brut de fût
Style & occasion: Fresh & grassySipping neat
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46 community reviews
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Review by Stefan Persson
Most helpful positive review
Overall a sophisticated rum with a great nose, that maybe has a little bit too kind and soft flavors to get a really high score in my opinion. This rum, a Brut de Fût, from the Carrere Distillery in Guadeloupe is aged for 8 years in Ex-Bourbon barrels before bottled at a rather low cask strength.
Review by Jacques etdom
Most helpful critical review
Pleasant nose, but too much citrus on the palate. I liked the 10-year-old much better. No finesse. Not worth the price.
Review by Thunderbird
This Montebello is totally unbalanced ... The nose is still okay: relatively sweet and fruity, but on the palate: herbal, like young Agricole, then. Woody, spicy and sweet! Nothing really goes together, it tastes more like a blend of different vintages, unfortunately thumbs down 👎🏻
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
Super sweet agricole. Toffee/tonka bean/dried hay/vanilla pods and biscuit dough. Reminds blind rather of reimonenq. Very delicate, elegant and neither too dry nor too sweet. Also an unusually low alcohol content for such a young brut de fut! Overall, however, really harmonious and dangerously drinkable with enough character to remain exciting.
Review by mto75
Quite sweet on the palate, a bit like pear syrup, alongside the herbal notes that I have usually perceived in even younger agricoles. On the palate then clearly roasted aromas, nutmeg, barrel impact. For me, not quite the top Agricole (Montebello) league, compared with the 12-year-old Velier Basseterre, for example.
Review by Rodolphe
A good representative of Guadeloupe in cask strength. Very sweet, so pleasant and easy to sip. Personally, it's not the style of Agricole I prefer.
Review by Jakob
Seductive nose with beautiful fruit depth and spicy aroma. On the palate, unfortunately very flat - spices, some wood, the rest of the profile is very limited and simply uninspired for me. Here too it shows: for me Montebellos win with aging.
Review by LukaŽiga
8,5:On the nose, the first impression we get is a honeyed sugarcane, herbaceous, citrus with a lemon peel, roasted wood, spicy and hay. On aeration, the fruits are dried with raisins, yellow and citrus with some orange peel, wood notes are dark with mocha, chocolate and nuts, as the cane is floral. 8,6:On the palate, the attack is tasty, balanced with sweet and honeyed sugarcane, mineral, vegetal, floral and herbaceous, the roasted wood with caramel, later nuts, cocoa, leather and mocha, spicy with vanilla, anise, the fruits are dried, yellow and citrus. 8,4:The finish is long, dry with sweet, juicy sugarcane, grassy, herbaceous, flowery and earthy, spicy and roasted wood, dried, yellow and green fruits, citrus...
Review by DomM
Feels unbalanced. Fresh/vegetal notes fight with notes from the cask without creating a working picture. Starts off rather sweet wirh a bitter turn on the finish.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#5728 28.09.2025 Day two of the Whisky Live 2025, which this year looks better organized/arranged inside. A very nice Brut de Fut with light astringency, wod and nice spices go well with the fruity notes and light caramel. There ae light floral notes in the profile as well.
Review by Jarek
Nose still quite good, disappointing on the palate.
Review by Rowald Sweet Empire
Tasted at the Whisky & Rum aan Zee festival IJmuiden 2023. Tasted this next to the Bielle 2016. Very different. Creamy. More woody.
Review by Serge
Nice nose with lots of fresh sugarcane juice and rich sweetness. Doesn't smell like 8 years at all, but stays quite close to Agricole blancs with some spice and wood. On the palate, I like it significantly less and here it loses most points. Alcoholic and bitter (like citrus zest) at the back and little finesse as well as overall quite angular.
Review by Léo Delek
The indulgence is well represented with the spicy and pastry side dominating. Spices, toasted bread/brioche, nice attack, spices with always cinnamon and nutmeg and a well-present vanilla, raisins and some other dried fruits here and there. There is also a vegetal dimension with tobacco and hay. In short, a very indulgent thing with a buttery side that Montebello manages to have and that sets it apart from other agricoles. I don't know how they manage to get that but it's the indulgence you expect from a spirit at the end of a meal or paired with a dessert.
Review by Eric Frechin
I find the nose very interesting, the glass next to it gives off a fruity smell. Getting closer, more vegetal, spices, a bit alcoholic. On the palate you lose some enthusiasm, the first contact is bitter and dry on vegetal notes and zest. Quite a long and agricultural finish.
Review by Ian Gilman
Despite being a little in the middle, in terms of aging for an agricole, I thought this Montebello was excellent.
Review by Jazz
Notes of ripe fruits and almonds! A round and satisfying rum! Slightly lacks power!
Review by Werner10
Not bad but could also be better. Trying this one after a Bielle 2014 brut de fut wasn't my best choice.
Review by EUDIER Vincent
Nice moment but a bit disappointing: An 8-year-old cask strength, I expected something more expressive, less vegetal and less sweet: The nose is a bit too faint, not enticing enough, The palate is a bit too vegetal and sweet/syrupy for my taste... Good... but higher expectations.
Review by Pascal Gwada
Original nose on licorice or prunes. Palate too vinous without finesse, too disappointing compared to the nose.
Review by Alexander Rasch
Mmm... very pleasant first nose. Very easy to drink. The more you focus on it, the more an off note comes through. On the palate again sweet with more herbs. The finish has more wood influence. I've had sweeter Bielles or La Favorite. The balance isn't quite right here though. Still quite drinkable.
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What did the community pay for Montebello Le brut de fût 8 ans 2014?
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Details about Montebello Le brut de fût 8 ans 2014
A Column Still Rum from Guadeloupe, distilled by Montebello, at 47,9%.
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