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4E03268A-A539-4B4B-842B-E6E6D230AD8EMartinique Distillerie du Simon
HSE Château La Tour Blanche - Brut de Fût 2009 150cl bottle
Rum Agricole · 10 years 2mo · 50,1%

HSE Château La Tour Blanche - Brut de Fût 2009

The Sauternes cask is the whole story here, and it divides people. Overripe grapes, raisin and a heavy, almost dosed sweetness run through the palate — one taster swears it was paired with a Beerenauslese dessert wine. Wine lovers call it a delight; a couple find it borders on too sweet. Underneath sits agricole cane and soft oak from ten years in barrel.

The community says
  • Sauternes wine notes
  • Balanced at 50%
  • But: Reads very sweet

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How does HSE Château La Tour Blanche - Brut de Fût 2009 taste?

Summarized by AI from community reviews.

Sauternes-cask agricole, rich noble-rot sweetness Wine drinkers rate it highly for its noble-rot sweetness; the catch is exactly that — some find the Sauternes influence tips past their idea of a rum.

Perfect for

wine lovers and agricole drinkers who like sweet cask finishes

Less suitable for

anyone wanting dry, classic agricole

Experience level · Expert (4/5)

Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat

Full aroma profile Aroma families · nose & palate · top aromas
Flavor profile
Sweet & dessert
Spice
Wood
Roasted & dark
Funk & ester
Vegetal & floral

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What does the community say?

8.8/10 Very good

15 community reviews
6 selected write-ups on this page, all of them in the RumX app

Top 12% of Martinique rumsTop 9% at Distillerie du Simon

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8–9 60%
7–8 0%
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Review by Leo Krüper

Leo Krüper
Aug 2024981 reviewsGermany
8.4/10

Sauternes cask sweetness, almost too sweet for me. Interesting grape note.

Review by Thunderbird

Thunderbird
Aug 20241,388 reviewsGermany
8.2/10

Tasting evening with Dr. Django: This HSE is a real surprise. I have the feeling that a rum has been paired with a Beerenauslese. I still find the nose relatively flat. A heavy sweetness on the palate at first, almost as if a dosage had been added. But then this heavy sweetness of overripe grapes intensifies in the finish to the aforementioned noble rot of a Beerenauslese. The whole thing is peculiar, but good

Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰

Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Apr 20217,227 reviewsDenmark
9.1/10

From our rum tasting 2021.04.17

Community shelf

37 bottles logged by 35 collectors.

Both drunk and collected.

27% opened, 2 emptied.

27 sealed 8 open 2 emptied

What did the community pay for HSE Château La Tour Blanche - Brut de Fût 2009?

Community paid 48–198 €.

Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 340 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ ›

37 purchased · 15 tasted · 5 wishlist · as of

Details about HSE Château La Tour Blanche - Brut de Fût 2009

A Rhum Agricole AOC from Martinique, distilled by Distillerie du Simon, at 50,1%.

BrandHSE
CountryMartinique
CategoryRhum Agricole AOC
Raw materialSugar cane juice
DistillationColumn Still
ABV50,1%
Age10 years 2mo
Vintage2009
Limited edition270 bottles
Sugar0 g/L
Volume150cl
Cask #ST04-ST06/2018
Single cask

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Distillerie du Simon

Distillery

Distillerie du Simon 

Avg Rating 8.0/10 340 Rums

Le Simon is Martinique's ghostwriter. It is the island's most technologically advanced distillery, yet it sells no rum under its own name, runs no public tours, and ages nothing on site. Instead it distils two of the most beloved names in Martinique agricole, HSE and, until recently, Clement, on stills moved here from their original homes. What you taste as HSE is, in fact, Le Simon.

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