Aroma visualization from community tastings
Diamond El Dorado The Last Casks 1998
Open in the app
Not the dark, brooding Demerara some expect — one taster even reached for Caroni. The nose is the star: glue, furniture polish, tropical fruit and orange peel, complex and fruity for 24 years. Then the palate turns dry and woody, tannic and a touch bitter, and at 49.1% a few members find it thinned out. A characterful old Diamond that's more about the glass than the sip.
The community says- Complex fruity nose
- Glue & polish
- But: Dry woody palate
View price history
10 more payment methodsSecure payment Sold by Rum Stylez Returns & cancellation
- Secure payment. You pay via RumX with PayPal, Klarna or card. Your payment data is encrypted and we never store your full card details.
- Clear seller. Sold and shipped directly by the partner shop. And you're never on your own: RumX handles support and communication with the shop, so you always get excellent service, whichever shop you order from.
- Honest shop ratings. The stars show your service experience with the shop, not the rum score. They come from RumX users, and critical ones stay visible.
- Returns & cancellation. Your purchase contract is with the shop, so returns and cancellations run through them under their own policy and your statutory rights. If anything goes wrong, RumX helps you sort it out.
Buy Diamond El Dorado The Last Casks 1998:
Compare all 4 shop offers
Prices & availability last updated on
The look inside the bottle
How does Diamond El Dorado The Last Casks 1998 taste?
Aggregated from 56 community reviews.
Gluey-fruity old Diamond, dry woody palate Most rate it well and love the glue-and-fruit nose, but there's a recurring note: the dry, woody, slightly bitter palate doesn't quite match — some wish it were less diluted.
Guyana fans who like weird, solvent-forward old rums
anyone wanting a rounded, sweet Demerara
How the community classifies this rum. Each category takes you to similar rums.
Which glass for which rum? The community guide →
26 of 56 left detailed tasting impressions · Click an aroma to explore similar rums
Recommendation
Your next rum
One difference each to this rum.
Rated better
Enmore El Dorado Rare Collection EHP 1996
8.8/10215 €
More intense
Diamond El Dorado The Last Casks (Gold) 2000
8.4/10135 €
Similar rating, cheaper
Enmore El Dorado Rare Collection EHP 1993
8.5/10199 €
Nothing for you?
5 more similar rums ↓
First choice: 29 of 31 tasters who tried both prefer it.
Community voices
What does the community say?
56 community reviews
27 selected write-ups on this page, all of them in the RumX app
Add your rating
Ranges include their upper bound: “7–8” means above 7 up to and including 8. See the full rating guide
Positive from 8.0 · Mixed 6.0–7.9 · Critical below 6.0
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
Most helpful positive review
Lovechild from 2010 Moneymusk MBS & 2006 Foursquare! Super mild & relaxed. Lots of honey, light fresh herbs like lemon verbena and some milk chocolate, as well as kumquat jam and toasted coconut chips. Could be a little more powerful but on the whole it is very tasty and elegant!
Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
Most helpful mixed review
Third place within the new trio. The three rums are all well distinguishable from each other, each has a peculiarity. This one I felt somehow "off", as if there was something wrong with him or something was added to him. But you could also say, he has an unmistakable, strong character.Unfortunately, I can not say what irritated me so. I must probably taste again.
Review by LukaŽiga
8,6:On the nose, pretty darn nice🙂, as we are impressed with yellow fruits, toasted coconut, roasted wood notes with caramel, dark chocolate and some glue. On aeration, we continue with citrus like an orange peel, spices, dried and tropical fruits, a molasses is vegetal, brings tobacco and black tea.There are nuts and a little menthol. 8,2:On the palate, the attack is tasty with yellow, tropical fruits, roasted wood notes like caramel and milk chocolate, toasted coconut, an orange and spices. The wood quickly overtakes the palate with dryness, heavy spice like cardamom, tannins are quite intense with bitterness, acidity, waxy.There are some metallic notes, the molasses is vegetal....Notes like glue, petrol and menthol don't help rounding the rum.Just vanilla does that. 8,5:The finish is round, still a bit dry, less tannic and spicy.Dried fruits mellow our tasting, so do creamy roasted wood notes and some tea. Edit:24.1.2026.
Review by RumTaTa
Lots of fruit on the nose, also solvent and esters, very complex. On the palate, an unexpectedly fresh note appears. Of the three El Dorado The Last Casks, this one has the most tannins/bitter notes but still within limits. Very good heavy Guyana rum, very intense, no alcohol burn at all! This rum together with a good chocolate with about 50% cocoa content is a dream!
Review by cigares
A rum tasted at Rum Depot in Berlin. Like a false nose a bit soapy, but immediately everything falls into place. Tropical fruits and pome fruits, wax and old wood. On the palate, you feel a slight lack of balance and there too everything comes back with old varnished and waxed wood. The finish is beautiful, slight bitterness and fruits. The empty glass is quite balanced, the best part of this rum which disappoints me a bit because of its imbalances.
Review by mto75
Today the three El Dorado Last Casks in the glass (red, black, gold label). The red one is a 98er Diamond / Tri-Canada blend. On the nose somewhat restrained, there are dried fruits, caramel, fruit bread, polish, lacquer. On the palate somehow similar, malty-caramel, milk chocolate. Ranking: black, gold, red.
Review by DomM
Nose is very nice with loads of coconut (akin to Foursquare) and pineapple. Acompanied by some light notes of citrus zests. Despite its long topical aging, this is very lively and vibrant. Much more wood forwards and dry on the palate. Some dried fruits and herbal notes are lingering in the background. Finish is very dry and adstringent yet not overly bitter.
Review by Thunderbird
The nose is still the best part of this bottling... caramel, minimal fruit, wood and slight alcohol spiciness rise. The palate comes across as very thin and light, then wood, bitterness, spice and herbs spread out, likewise on the finish. Very late, some prune appears on the finish! finish! The whole seems quite unausgegoren
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#4265 16.09.2023 Whisky N Rum Show 2023. I didn't try that many rums on site, but I did manage to taste the last two ot the Last Casks. I still think they're too expensive compared to what you get. This one is a bit more fruity but then has more medicinal and glue notes. The palate is light light and fruity with some added herbal notes. The finish is medium long with some roasted wood, citrus and light coffee. I noticed that the empty glass has some nice caramel notes.
Review by Christoph
Can you imagine anything better than smelling eucalyptus and glue at the same time? No!
Review by Tom Buteneers
Gluey-fruity with some bitterness
Review by Florent Apl
Tasted against the last cask diamond uitvlugt (gold label). I also really enjoy that one. The diamond uitvlugt was more about nail polish and Guyana's depth with dark sugar and wood, here it's more about wood polish, citrus and tropical fruits. It's unexpected but very enjoyable if, like me, you like weird things.
Review by kudzey
Light and delicate, floral. You don't feel the proof. It's very smooth
Review by Jakob
Interesting profile, the Demerara DNA is well recognizable. However, the whole thing is not really rounded, because on the one hand the dilution and on the other hand a somewhat astringent-bitter note appears on the palate, which is not extremely pronounced, but still noticeable and does not really fit into the overall picture. Therefore, no comparison to the real grandes from Guyana.
Review by Serge
Nose and finish quite nice but on the palate first a very strange separating sharpness, like the solvents in superglue. Sounds cool, but is here for me strangely unpleasant. Have that by the way with all three of the series. Not very successful for me. After a few seconds, it's then delicious again.
Review by Frank
Der erste der 3 Last Casks. Ein schöner alter, komplett 24 Jahre tropisch gereifter Diamond. Das ist bemerkenswert. Nase: trotz der nur 49% intensiv, komplex und sehr aromatisch. Fruchtig-süßlich-holzig-würzig. Von allem was dabei. Zunächst fällt positiv eine schöne Klebstoff-Note auf, süßlich in Richtung Pattex. Dazu Möbelpolitur. Hier kommt schon eine leicht säuerliche Spitze, wie von Holzsäure oder Melasse, die sich komplett durchzieht. Angenehme Süße auch Richtung Ahornsirup und Honig. Nun machen sich die tropischen und dunklen Fruchtkomponenten bemerkbar: Papaya mit Orange, dunkle Kirsche mit Pflaume, ein Hauch Kokosnuss und leicht säuerliche Maracuja. Hinten schokoladig-holzig, viel Eiche mit Vanille und Leder. Tolle Nase, abgesehen von dem Stich: 8,8 Gaumen: hier doch herber, als die Nase vermuten lässt. Sehr trocken, holzig und zu Beginn bitter und säuerlich. Holzsäure und etwas Menthol. Bekommt dadurch auch einen metallischen Geschmack. Das verbrannte Holz ist schon dominant. Dahinter Fruchtigkeit von Bitterorange mit Sauerkirsche und herbe Nuss, geröstete Haselnuss. Im Abgang geht die Frucht in getrocknete Aprikose über. Insgesamt etwas zu holzig, aber eigentlich erwartbar bei dem Alter. Alkohol passt insgesamt gut. 8,2 Kein leichter, was zu erwarten war. Aber toll, dass El Dorado nach den Rare, nun noch sehr hochwertige Besonderheiten herausbringt. Diese sind zwar teuer, aber den Preis auch wert.
Review by Johannes
Great fruity glue nose! On the palate, unfortunately, the first good impression does not quite prevail. Somewhat unround, but not uninteresting, slight soapy off-note, overall unfortunately too diluted.
Review by Jarek
Nose still okay, but on the palate and finish not harmonious at all. Way too woody and bitter, plus a strange soapy aftertaste I can't grasp.
Review by Benoit Mahe
The nose is quite fruity for a rum of this age. Unfortunately, it is not quite to my taste. The palate is also quite fruity. The reduction is not perfect in my opinion (at least it leaves a slight watery sensation).
Review by Tim
Super tasty, wonderfully rounded fruity nose that would deserve 90+, and a successful rum from Guyana. The alcohol content is moderate, which might lose a bit of aroma intensity but gives a pleasant drinking strength. Nicely chocolaty, fruity, and roasted. On the palate, intensely vegetal with herbs and sour fruits, which I don't find balanced enough. You can debate the price, but not the rum overall in my opinion.
Review by Mopar Rules
how great it could be if this hint of orange-polish would be more intense. DDL has done far better rums.
Review by Andi
Very mild, yellow fruits, metallic, herbs, wood, solvent, for me somewhat atypical for Guyana.slightly dirty notes, my first association was first in the direction of Trinidad - Caroni.
Review by Nivius
Wow also again Armagnac, even more wood, just in time from the barrel fetched, of the Last Cask my Favourite .Will be very sweet after a long time in the glass and it is extremely fun to watch how it develops in the Glaß :3
Review by Sebastiaan Linssen
Good rum, distinctive dry rum
Review by Buddudharma
Nice Guyana profile, but a bit thin due to the low ABV.
Review by Stijn Zino
Brussels Rhum Festival 15/03/2025 Tasted The Last Cask black, gold and red next to eachother. Difficult to choose a winner, but would give it to gold. These are all great rums. This one has the best nose.
Review by Johnny Madsen
Just a bit too dry for me. But nothing you would not expect for a 25 YO.
No reviews match this filter.
Live auctions
Current bids for this rum at Europe's leading auction houses.
Market value
What this bottle last achieved at auction. A research indicator, not a forecast.
Auction results 158 € – 250 €
from 3 sales, latest 12/2024
Prices incl. buyer's premium — what a buyer pays, not what a sale nets you.
Avg. community purchase price 175 €
What members paid for this bottle, self-reported. Not a market value — the purchases are over three years old at the median and unverified.
Community purchases
11 bottles logged by 11 collectors.
A collector's bottle.
9% opened, 0 emptied and repurchased.
What does Diamond El Dorado The Last Casks 1998 cost?
Community paid 151–233 €.
Current best price: 261.90 € – above the typical community range.
What members actually paid for their bottles. A typical range, not the current shop price. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
11 purchased · 56 tasted · 6 wishlist · as of
Details about Diamond El Dorado The Last Casks 1998
A Column Still Rum from Guyana, distilled by Diamond, at 49,1%.
How do you read a Diamond bottle? The RumX guide →
Read on in the RumX Guide
You may also enjoy
Rum enthusiasts who like this rum have also given the following rums high ratings:
El Dorado The Last Casks (Black) 1998
El Dorado The Last Casks (Black) 1998Oily Demerara sipper, chocolate and dried fruit
Enmore Rum Artesanal Guyana Rum MEV 1990
Enmore Rum Artesanal Guyana Rum MEV 1990Dry, herbal old Enmore with pencil-shaving character
Port Mourant El Dorado Rare Collection PM 1997
Port Mourant El Dorado Rare Collection PM 1997Woody, licorice-heavy PM that needs time
Port Mourant El Dorado Rare Collection PM 1999
Port Mourant El Dorado Rare Collection PM 1999Bold tropical-aged Port Mourant for PM fans
Nobilis Diamond No. 39 SWR 1997
Nobilis Diamond No. 39 SWR 1997Heavy coffee-and-cocoa Demerara, glorious nose
Never miss a price drop.
Set a target price in the app, and we'll let you know as soon as the rum becomes available at that price from one of our partner stores. This works for any rum on your wish list.
Oliver · FounderBy rum lovers, for rum lovers
I'm Oliver, and RumX began in 2018 as a small passion project in Stuttgart, back then under the name Rum Tasting Notes.
Oliver, Stuttgart
About RumX →YouTube channel (in German)
