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Rum Nation Long Pond Small Batch Rare Rums 1986
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"Kinda tastes like a sherry finish" — that member nailed the whole story. A 30-year Long Pond aged six years in oloroso, and the sherry does most of the talking: dried fruit, raisin, chocolate, tobacco, a little rubber and polish underneath. Soft, round, banana and cherry on the palate, alcohol tucked in nicely at 48.7%. Most find the finish drops off short, and the wood you'd expect from three decades barely shows.
The community says- Round and soft
- Dried fruit depth
- Keep in mind: Short finish
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How does Rum Nation Long Pond Small Batch Rare Rums 1986 taste?
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Soft sherried Long Pond, more oloroso than funk Well-liked overall, but the recurring note is that the oloroso finish smothers the Long Pond — a soft, easy sipper that's less complex and shorter than its age promises.
Aroma profilefans of sherried, soft-sipping aged Jamaicans
funk chasers wanting loud Long Pond esters
Style & occasion: Tropical & funkySipping neat
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Yes, if you're after characterful, tropical, funky rums for sipping neat.
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Review by LukaŽiga
Most helpful positive review
8,6:On the nose, esters, polish, rubber, pineapple, mango, banana, dried fruits, flowery molasses, roasted wood notes like caramel, leather, pastry, bump into our nosetrils. On aeration, molasses is grassy, dark with licorice, waxy, citrus fruits are out, prunes, raisins, roasted nuts and spices join, round. 8,6:On the palate, the attack is medicinal with esters, funky, fruity with tropical fruits like banana and pineapple, ripe mango, dried(raisins), citrus fruits, cherries, slightly metallic, round, sherry barrel impact is obvious.The wood is roasted with chocolate, caramel, roasted nuts, pastry, brown sugar, leather, spicy with vanilla and allspice, as the molasses is sweet with honey, dark with licorice, herbaceous, grassy, vegetal with briny olive. 8,5:The finish is long, dry&tannic, with roasted wood notes like nuts, chocolate, caramel, spicy, smoky, sweet, pairing dried, red and tropical fruits, candied and floral molasses, dairy notes. Edit:27.6.26
Review by Dr.Django
Most helpful mixed review
Given the key data, this is an absolute disappointment. The finish is way too dominant. Overall the rum is extremely sweet and not very complex. As an easy sipper it's quite good, though for me even a bit too sweet here. The finish is also quite short and again extremely sweet.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
31.01.2020 Relaxing at a small tasting at a local dining place that is no more. Notes. Medium dark colour. Nose: Fresh, light, dried fruit, light ester, sweet, banana, wood. Palate: Light, wood, roasted, cherry, banana, light ester, spice. Finish: Medium long, light, fruity, wood, spice.
Review by Timo Groeger
Difficult this rum. The nose is certainly very fruity, dried and red fruits dominate here. On the palate also many red fruits, especially cherry, plum and raisin, but also a hint of sherry is recognizable.
Review by SaibotZtar
Delicious Long Pond. Spicy fruity light esters very harmonious. ABV could be higher but somehow it doesn't bother so much. Less complex and woody than expected for its age. Stable and tasty in May no more no less.
Review by Frank
Third and final sample in the ICE. 30yo and LP, sounds good at first. But I don't think the last 6 years in the Oloroso barrel would have been necessary. Nose: nicely spicy and fruity with passion fruit, pineapple, lime and lemon. The sulphurous smell of the Oloroso comes through clearly. Many people like it, but not so much for me. Behind it, some wood and tobacco and, with time, clearly vinegar. A pleasant caramel sweetness rounds it off. 8,4 Palate: spicy and roasty, slightly salty at the beginning with an umami note and liquorice. Somewhat musty with the sulphur of the Oloroso. Banana and raisin with a molasses-like sweetness. Overall, the LP is somewhat more restrained than the oloroso finish. A pity, actually. There would have been more to it. Nevertheless, a pleasant drop. 8,2
Review by DutchRumPirate
A nice rum, but less complex than hoped. In the nose and mouth it is soft, with red fruits, tobacco, raisins and certainly a sweet note of pineapple. Aftertaste is very present due to the sherry barrel which dominates too much. plums, chocolate and caramel come to the fore. generally a round, soft and certainly good rum in which the sherry finish is a bit too dominant.
Review by Chrischi78
Here the version without the 'last ICE sample', 205 characters: 30yo LP with Oloroso finish: spicy, tropical nose with distinct Oloroso sulfur, some wood, tobacco and sweetness. On the palate roasted, salty-umami, slightly musty, with banana, raisin and molasses. Overall solid but not outstanding.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
great stuff in principle but really a pity why you have to put something so noble 6 years in sherry barrels. unfortunately also relatively quickly gone and not particularly present. Unfortunately, sherry dominates for the most part...
Review by Jussi Piirainen
Because this is 30 years old rum, this rum did did sit in the glass for a good 15 minutes before the review. On the nose: Tobacco notes with mild ester and polish notes. Red fruit notes from the cherry cask are on the back. Light on the nose. Taste: Light, light chocolate notes, light banana notes at first and then the cherry cask notes takes over. Woody notes. Taste: Warm, spices. Cherry notes. Woody notes. Not as woody as i expected. The sherry cask influence does take over the palate and as much as i sometimes like sherry cask finished, i like my sherry cask rums with higher abv and with more body.
Review by Lukas Jäger
Tasted on the brilliant Spree tour with Kirsch for the 12th GRF: A little disappointing, not very aromatic and almost a little thin. Would have deserved a second chance with more time and air
Review by Boletus
Due to the six-year second maturation in sherry casks, this Lond Pond, which has a very moderate ester level, has been harmoniously enriched with aromas of dried fruit, chocolate, nuts and a little leather and tobacco. Really very round and palatable, but the rum runs out of steam a little in the finish, which is reflected in the relatively rapid disappearance of the individual, fine flavor components.
Review by Skyfly
1986 Long Pond sounds great at first, but then it was rather a disappointment. The rum is super round and has no edges due to the long ageing, but apart from various fruits and sugar/caramel, there is little to taste here; strangely enough, not even a hint of the cask
Review by DaveLamb
tropical fruits, spice hints, combined with Sherry character(LPCH is same). Nice light Long Pond, again my favourite blend, a hint of sherry's finishing through the barrel adds to the wine's luster.
Review by zabo
Unfortunately, once again, I don't find the finish really intoxicating. I really wonder why you always have to put such basically good drops in sherry casks. It has spoiled a better rating.
Review by Martin Mihaly
Sehr schöne leichte rum. Schon Nase verspricht viel, schön rund, leicht, tropische Früchte, Rosinen, Politur bißchen braune Zucker und Holzige scherry Noten. Am Gaumen auch von Anfang leicht mit intensive scherry Noten, Rosinen, Klebstoff. Warm, Alkohol gut verbindet. In Abgang nicht so lang aber sehr schön Holzig.
Review by Nils123
I would have expected a little more complexity for its age, but unfortunately this is not the case. The alcohol is flawlessly integrated and there are no changes with water. Unfortunately, it drops off a little in the finish. Nevertheless, a good rum.
Review by Anders Bovien
Lovely blend kinda taste like a sherry finish
Review by Martin Švojgr
smells better than it tastes. Old LP raped sherry
Review by Righrum
Where is the long pond here? I do nose and taste just sherry, nothing else. No esters beside a Little funkyness that can be found beyond the fortified wine curtain. It's not unpleasant but the Spirit really disappears
Review by Pavel Ungr, RumRock
Ročník 1986. Hodnotím 8,2 z 10, velmi dobrý rum.
Review by Buddudharma
Unfortunately, the combination of sherry finish and relatively low ABV doesn't completely win me over, as the RX1012 with reasonably similar key data is in a different league.
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Rum Nation Long Pond Small Batch Rare Rums 1986 at live auctions
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37 bottles logged by 25 collectors.
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5% opened, 0 emptied.
What does Rum Nation Long Pond Small Batch Rare Rums 1986 cost?
Community paid 119–300 €.
Current best price: 399.90 € – above the typical community range.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 143 €. Price history with 113 auction results in RX+ ›
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Details about Rum Nation Long Pond Small Batch Rare Rums 1986
A Pot Still Rum from Jamaica, bottled by Rum Nation, at 48,7%.
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