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Michel Couvreur Sour'hum 2013
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Damp cask and musty prune hit first — this is a Jamaican high-ester distillate buried under years of heavy sherry in a humid cellar, and opinions split hard because of it. Some taste briny olive, leather, tobacco and fig with the esters fighting through; others get wet wood, sulphur and a sour edge that flattens the rum. One camp calls it atypical and worth the trip; another calls it overwhelmed. It rewards 15 minutes of air.
The community says- Briny olive funk
- Atypical & complex
- But: Musty sherry
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How does Michel Couvreur Sour'hum 2013 taste?
Summarized by AI from 12 community reviews.
Musty PX-sherry funk that splits the room Genuinely polarizing: fans find the salty, sherried funk atypical and rewarding, while others say the cask drowns the rum into musty, sour territory. Rarely a middle opinion.
sherry-bomb fans chasing salty, unusual funk
anyone wanting a clean, rum-forward pour
Style & occasion: Mature & oakyTropical & funkySipping neat
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Positive from 8.0 · Mixed 6.0–7.9 · Critical below 6.0
Review by LukaŽiga
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8,5:On the nose, esters, nail polish and glue, briny olive and strong sherry impact with leather, dried fruits like figs, prunes, dates and raisins, apricots, then pot still tropical fruits like banana and pineapple, roasted wood notes with nuts, espresso, dark chocolate, caramelized burnt sugar, peppery, all hand in hand, bump into our nosetrils. On aeration, additional roasted notes join with cream toffee, marzipan, confectionery, walnuts and almonds, creamy vanilla, the sugarcane helps with honey. 8,4:On the palate, the attack is a nice combination of pot still rum and sherry ageing, with esters, pungent, overripe tropical fruits like banana and pineapple, citrus fruits, briny olive on one side, leather, tons of dried fruits, cherry, tannins, on the other, with various sweet roasted wood notes like dark chocolate, coffee, confectionery, caramelized, spicy with baking spices, vanilla, dark, earthy sugarcane with licorice. 8,2:The finish is medium long, dry and tannic, with pot still distillation notes, pairing sherry barrel ageing, as mentioned above. Edit:23.5.26
Review by Michael Schillheim
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On the nose, a very strong sherry influence, lots of barrel, some fruit and esters. On the palate, the impression from the nose continues consistently. At the back, the already described plums come through. Over everything, an unpleasant sour note. Medium-long finish. The alcohol is very sharp for a rum with around 50% ABV. Conclusion: This rum is okay, but nothing special.
Review by Timo Groeger
Und weiter geht es mit Tour de France schauen. Heute hoffentlich eine spannender Etappe als gestern, was die Favoriten angeht. Ja das istveiner der Mieterin heute. Sehr würzig und viel Salzlake, aber nicht besonders gut.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#6929 18.06.2026 Training is done and wife has been picked up. Time for some samples while watching Justice League on HBO. This one will split waters. A woody profile with esters, overripe fruit, olives, leather, ccaramel and spices.
Review by TheJona'Spirits
A tasting at my wine shop that's a pleasure 👍 👃 Very intense, on spices, salt, pepper, cured meats. It's honeyed, honey candy, then light dry hay, very sweet caramel, dark chocolate and its full-bodied but not very bitter coffee, crème caramel finally, sweetness. Brine invites itself, the olive is there, slight lactic fermentation, esters well present behind the 12-year aging in Pedro Ximenez casks. Very dry fruit in paste form (blackcurrants, figs), followed by banana flambéed in rum, plantain-style. A hint of candied pineapple appears and leaves. A nose that still has much to reveal. 😋 More of the same, barrel woodiness at the top, brine, olive, saltiness again, salty soy sauce. Evolves into licorice, caramel, heather honey, dried vanilla bean, tight coffee, roasted coffee bean, dark chocolate. Fermented fruit (banana, fig, black berry, strawberry?). Evolving, complex palate. ⛳ Hint of mint, licorice, overripe but oh-so-good fruit, fir honey with salt. Esters at the service of PX rancio. Excellent, atypical, successful experiment 👌 This is what I expect from a Michel Couvreur rum; the typicality of the continental wet cellar aging dear to MC with a sufficiently spirited distillate coming out of the still so as not to be "overpowered" by the Pedro Ximenez. 💡 At this stage I'm leaning towards a high ester distillate from Hampden, perhaps a mark <>H.
Review by zabo
So here you can keep it really short and don't need to spend much time categorizing this one. The only question is whether you can find 200 characters to express my dislike of this bottling. Actually, just one word is enough: disgusting.
Review by Lukas Jäger
In short: Muffbombe! Musty and damp on the nose, heavy old sherry in wet casks, a slightly fruity hint of plums and at some point a hint of ester. Very similar on the palate: medicinal, musty, flat, here too the esters of the Jamaican base material only appear after a thick fog on Muff. For me, this is a completely overdone rum that can only faintly reveal its basic character, its DNA and thus its origins. Perhaps something for relevant (whisky) fans of this house, for me rather a failed attempt.
Review by Damien rhumx
Un bon petit Michel Couvreur qui se boit très facilement. La robe est belle, le goût et la finale enivrante
Review by Chris Lewis
This is a dank sherry bomb. An initial flood of musty prune turns into leather and tobacco on the back palate. Lacking a bit of body for me, but not bad by any means. I think i‘ll stick to the Couvreuer whiskies though. Edit: This really opens up after 15 minutes in the glass. The leather takes a back seat as the fruit lengthens into a nice finish. Still not spectacular, but better.
Review by Alain Masrum
Nez très fruité et chocolaté Bouche sur l'amande douce, des fruits tropicaux, du café, torréfié, le sucre roux, un peu de sève mentholée La finale sur la colle, le chocolat, les fruits exotiques confits, excellent et surtout singulier.
Review by Fuwi
Wow, what a shame. Michel Couvreur makes sensational single malt bottlings that he ages in old sherry casks in his deep cellars in Alsace. What works with whisky doesn’t necessarily work with rum. I was really looking forward to this bottling, my first Couvreur rum. But it was a total flop. The nose starts with wet cask, then light sulfur notes that remind me of rotten eggs. The sherry is heavy in the aroma, with a bit of red fruit. On the palate, there’s first a metallic sweetness, then quickly the sherry. I barely taste any rum at all. The sulfur notes show up here too – musty, wet wood, leather, and meaty spice. That’s about it. You also have to hurry when tasting because after about 2 minutes there’s hardly anything left. Like I said – very disappointing. But this was a miss.
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Details about Michel Couvreur Sour'hum 2013
A rum from Unknown, bottled by Michel Couvreur, at 50.5%.
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