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Diamond (Versailles) Kill Devil 2004
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Dry, woody and roasted, with dark chocolate, nutmeg and a green-apple tartness cutting through. This cask-strength Diamond wooden pot still runs hot — one taster found it charred and sharp, while others got leather, dried fruit and even a whisky-like edge. Give it air and it settles. Bone-dry, spicy, and clearly needs time in the glass before it opens up.
The community says- Dry and complex
- Dark chocolate, spice
- But: Hot at 61%
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How does Diamond (Versailles) Kill Devil 2004 taste?
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Dry, hot, roasted Guyanese pot still Divisive. Most find a dry, woody, roasted pot-still rum with chocolate and spice that rewards patience; a few call it too charred, alcoholic and disjointed at 61%.
Drinkers who like dry, woody cask-strength pot-still rum
Anyone wanting sweet, soft or low-proof rum
Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat
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Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Most helpful positive review
10.02.2018 Having a great tasting at work with nice colleagues. Notes Light in colour. Nose Wood, roasted, citrus, plum, vegetal, light honey. Palate Oily, wood, roasted, citrus, spicy, grass, medicinal, anise. Finish Long and warm, wood, grass, anise, light raisin. Extra note Needs to rest for a good while before giving it a go.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
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Very burnt
Review by primus
On the nose, this drop is initially modest and restrained, with gentle dried fruit notes and quite a lot of alcohol. On the palate, however, the impression is rounded off by a very rounded profile with wood notes from the barrel, chocolate and nutmeg. Very dry!
Review by Frank
In the nose right away spicy dry, when bumpy smell almost cocoa powder. Leather and woody. But also a hint of dried fruit. Also for this of honey comes through now. Something fresh like green apple comes through.On the palate yet rather sweet-bitter, woody-spicy, dark chocolate. Roasty. A peppery nutmeg spiciness that transitions into fermented tea leaves. In the finish it remains slightly bitter-spicy, gets a touch of anise.Makes mood 😊
Review by Jackie Flannery
A new boring tasting session with young pot still single cask Guyanese rums. Kill Devil 12y, 61,1% Barikenn 8y, 63,3% The Nectar 10y, 62,5% SBS 10y, 64,6% C: W wine N: 5min in and the nose is very shy. I get pears and sea water. After a while it is still shy and the fiercest nose of the bunch. It almost feels rebellious. You must like onion, garlic, green pepper and seafood to appreciate this kind of distillate. Give it time and it will calm down. It develops into a rather harmonic blend of celery, pears, granny apples and oyster juice. Strange enough, also sweet. M: Virile unlike the shy nose. Granny apple peel juice, smoked rubber, and both floral and coastal. I like it! F: Long for young rum. B: Yes. Why boring? Every rum brings something slightly different, but I like them all.
Review by Montana
The rum smells very fruity, alcoholic.The first taste is reminiscent of a whiskey, then some sweetness appears. The alcohol content is quite good to taste, but still not unpleasant. A class rum.
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12 bottles logged by 11 collectors.
Both drunk and collected.
25% opened, 1 emptied.
What did the community pay for Diamond (Versailles) Kill Devil 2004?
Avg. community purchase price 95 €.
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Details about Diamond (Versailles) Kill Devil 2004
A Pot Still Rum from Guyana, bottled by Hunter Laing, at 61.1%.
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About the Diamond (Versailles) distillery
The Diamond (Versailles) distillery is located in Guyana. Rums from Diamond (Versailles) have been reviewed 180 times with an average of 8.1/10.
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