Manabi Flensburg Rum Company Sea Shepherd (Beluga) 2015
For curious explorers of cane juice rums: an 8‑year, unsweetened Fiji/Ecuador-style sipper at 47.2%. Expect fruity-herbaceous notes (green apple, banana, lime), honeyed hints and dry, peppery oak. Interesting sample bottle.
- Fruity-herbaceous nose
- Dry, spicy finish
- Unsweetened bottling
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How does Manabi Flensburg Rum Company Sea Shepherd (Beluga) 2015 taste?
Aggregated from 15 community reviews.
Herbal, fruity, dry and a bit thin For curious explorers of cane juice rums: an 8‑year, unsweetened Fiji/Ecuador-style sipper at 47.2%. Expect fruity-herbaceous notes (green apple, banana, lime), honeyed hints and dry, peppery oak. Interesting sample bottle.
Rum fans exploring unsweetened cane juice rums with herbal, fruity and slight rubber notes who enjoy a drier, oakier finish over heavy sweetness.
Those wanting rich, oily mouthfeel, beginners sensitive to sharper alcohol, or drinkers expecting a sweet, easygoing Spanish-style sipper.
How is Manabi Flensburg Rum Company Sea Shepherd (Beluga) 2015 rated?
RumX's 0–10 scale is strict — 7.4 lands squarely in the "Good" band. 53% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 0% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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Review by LukaŽiga
8,1:On the nose, we find an estery rum, pleasantly fruity with an unripe banana, green apple, spicy with red pepper, vanilla and roasted wood with caramel, minty cane. On aeration, a rubber is our companion, herbaceous notes, from fruits apricots, lime peel, sour cherry, as bit astringent. 8:On the palate, the attack is bourbony with yellow fruits, green apple, roasted wood with burnt sugar, spicy vanilla, salty and peppery. The cane brings honey and diverse vegetal notes like mint, grass, chamomile, thyme and herbaceous, floral notes.There is a pleasant, unripe banana, later some lime peel, underneath some rubber still follows us. 8,2:The finish is long, tasty, dry with spicy, roasted wood notes like vanilla, pastry, coffee, fruits like banana, green apple, kumquat and yellow fruits, herbaceous and floral, grassy notes...
Review by Lukas Jäger
For tasting as a sample directly from Kirsch. A rum made from sugar cane juice from Ecuador. I'm not so familiar with the distillation traditions, but in terms of taste I would say it was previously made from molasses. So something new again, very nice! Exciting nose, quite herbal, almost reminds me of younger PMs. Unfortunately very thin on the palate, some potential is lost here. Otherwise a little sweet, reminiscent of honey, which again I find somewhat exciting. Overall an exciting new bottling, but nothing that I personally need.
Review by Frank
Won a sample set of the 4 new Sea Shepherd from Kirsch. THANK YOU 🙏. Here is the tropically matured sugar cane juice rum from Ecuador... Nose: despite only 47%, quite intense and even a little cutting at the beginning. Fruity, spicy and woody. Sweet, mealy banana with sour-sweet passion fruit and gooseberry with redcurrant. There is also sour cherry and green apple. Behind this, it is herbaceous and spicy with a little red pepper, vanilla and a hint of mint. Surprisingly beautiful and interesting nose. 8.0 Palate: dry, somewhat thin and quite spicy-woody-tart. Initially salty with lime zest and some caraway, slightly bitter. This is followed by subtle, slightly sweet fruit, perhaps green apple. Becomes grassy at the back with herbs and citrusy notes of kumquat. Weaker and more brittle than the nose, appears alcoholic at first despite the low %. 7,6 Quite unusual for Ecuador and therefore interesting.
Review by Master P
Equador, intense fruity nose at the beginning, also a little buttery with a light honey touch. Taste a little thin, light fruity sweetness with burnt sugar and a little acidity. Finishes a little peppery. Is ok as a sample
Review by Alex Kunath
Second FRC Sea Shepherd series. Another rum from Ecuador. I think it's good both on the nose and on the tongue. It has the typical sweet, honeyed notes of a Spanish rum. I quite liked it.
Review by Timo Groeger
Bottle Market Bremen October 2024. I think it has a strong nose, smells to me like a freshly cleaned toilet, strong. On the palate it has a certain sweetness (chocolate) and spiciness. The worst so far today.
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Expert review by The Dunder Hut
"Some really nice rubber notes with some green apple and Spanish sweetness. Some banana esters and sub par alcohol integration. I can see me drinking this but am happy I onlY bought a sample. Worth a try though"
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11 bottles logged by 52,000+ RumX members. The ratio of closed / opened / emptied, indicates whether this rum is meant to be drunk or is a collector's item.
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About the Manabi distillery
The Manabi distillery is located in Ecuador. Rums from Manabi have been reviewed 57 times with an average of 7.5/10.
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