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VS Distillers J. Gow Fading Light XO 70cl bottle
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Aged rum · 6 years

VS Distillers J. Gow Fading Light XO

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How does VS Distillers J. Gow Fading Light XO taste?

Aggregated from 4 community reviews.

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What does the community say?

8.1/10 Very good

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

Top 17% of United Kingdom rumsTop 18% at VS Distillers

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Review by Max Naar

Max Naar
Jan 20251 reviews
8.5/10

Nose: White pepper, buttercups, fleur de sel, french salted caramels, glue and wood varnish, abroath smokies, parma violets and banana cream pie, tablet, applebanana, foam mushrooms and coconut cream, whitecurrants and pickled rhubarb, chopped hazelnuts, foam bananas and nasturtiums, vietnamese coffee, waldorf salad and corn nuts Palate: lychees and seawater, ground acorns and crushed digestive biscuits Finish: sliced banana and pandan, pink lady apple and fennel, rosehip and tinned pears, fresh dates With water Nose: key lime pie, vanilla shortbread, vanilla fudge and pomelo, sugar cookies and amalfi lemon, custard creams and scallops, millefeuille and apple peel and pineapple bun, acid drops and blackcurrant leaf, elderflower Palate: butter caramels and cheese scones Finish: devonshire toffee, snake fruit and minerallic, banana toffoes and white pepper, sahlab

Review by Anonymous

Anonymous
Feb 202518 reviews
8.2/10

Light, funky almost scotch like

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Expert review by The Fat Rum Pirate

(That might only make sense in my mind). Finish wise the rum is again very strong with a lovely long fade and lots going on. There is plenty of interaction with the cask and the long spicy finish is really lovely. All in all this is better overall than the...
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66% opened, 0 emptied.

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What did the community pay for VS Distillers J. Gow Fading Light XO?

Avg. community purchase price 74 €.

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3 purchased · 4 tasted · 2 wishlist · as of

Details about VS Distillers J. Gow Fading Light XO

BrandJ. Gow
DistilleryVS Distillers
Age6 years
Volume70cl

About the VS Distillers distillery

The VS Distillers distillery is located in United Kingdom. Rums from VS Distillers have been reviewed 155 times with an average of 6.6/10.

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Aged rum 

Avg Rating 8.0/10 over 15,000 Rums

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9.0–10.0 Excellent Stash as many as you can afford. Tell no one.
8.0–8.9 Very good your rum Bank a backup. Tell everyone you meet.
7.0–7.9 Good Buy one and recommend it to your friends.
6.0–6.9 Pleasant Solid, super glad I drank it.
5.0–5.9 Average Totally acceptable.
4.0–4.9 Drinkable Not vocally complaining.
3.0–3.9 Poor Wish I was drinking something else.
2.0–2.9 Very poor Nothing nice to say.
1.0–1.9 Unpleasant No, that's not for me.
0.1–0.9 Inedible Pour it out.