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CF2F6D96-9127-4272-9F1E-6E63D3DEC7AAMauritius Grays
New Grove Savoir Faire Double Cask Acacia 70cl bottle
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Aged rum · 8 years · 47%

New Grove Savoir Faire Double Cask Acacia

Most people find this genuinely interesting, and a few find the wood a bit much — both are fair. The acacia-cask finish gives it an unusual, spicy-floral oak that battles a big hit of cherry and red-currant fruit. Cinnamon, vanilla and roasted nuts fill in behind. The finish turns dry and tannic, sometimes bitter. At 47% it drinks easy, and several tasters call it a proper sundowner.

The community says
  • Atypical acacia oak
  • Loads of cherry
  • But: Dry tannic finish

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How does New Grove Savoir Faire Double Cask Acacia taste?

Summarized by AI from community reviews.

Cherry fruit meets unusual acacia-cask oak Well liked for its atypical acacia wood, though a few find the tannins too dominant and slightly bitter. Most enjoy the cherry-versus-oak tug and drink it happily as an easy evening pour.

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The top aromas from 56 community tastings — visualized by AI
Perfect for

fans of wood-forward rums and unusual cask finishes

Less suitable for

anyone put off by dry, tannic bitterness

Experience level · Explorer (3/5)

Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat

Full aroma profile Aroma families · nose & palate · top aromas
Flavor profile
Sweet & dessert
Wood
Dried fruit
Roasted & dark
Funk & ester
Vegetal & floral

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What does the community say?

8.0/10 Very good

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

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Distribution of all 56 ratings
9–10 0%
8–9 48%
7–8 48%
6–7 4%
5–6 0%
4–5 0%
0–4 0%

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Positive from 8.0 · Mixed 6.0–7.9 · Critical below 6.0

Review by Rowald Sweet Empire

Most helpful positive review

Rowald Sweet Empire
Jul 2023430 reviewsNetherlands
8.1/10

Interesting wood finish. I get a lot of cherries/sour cherries (maybe some Haribo Cherries too). The fruits and the wood is battling but keep each other in check. Some spices come through. A menthol freshness. Interesting and well made. Tasted it again on Christmas 2022. New packaging, which looks more retro than the old one. Still impressed. Lots of oak. Cognac. Good

Review by Rare Akuma

Most helpful mixed review

Rare Akuma
Apr 2023186 reviewsBelgium
7.5/10

The uncommon finish is quite noticeable both on the nose and the palate with spicy and floral influences. The barrel has really done some work here as I find the spirit quite woody for a New Grove. The taste is elevated further by strong coffee, roasted nuts, sweet cherries and wet soil notes. For me personally the experience is a little too sweet and too diluted.

Review by LukaŽiga

LukaŽiga
Nov 20251,503 reviewsGermany
8.4/10

8,4:On the nose, the first impression we get is a herbaceous molasses, spicy wood with cinnamon and nutmeg, vanilla, fruits like berries, currants, red fruits like cherry and raisins. On aeration, the nuts are caramelized, roasted, molasses flowery and new fruit notes arise like blackberry and citrus. 8,4:On the palate, the attack is tasty with roasted wood notes like chocolate, caramel, nuts, spicy and fruity with cherry, currants and berries, later tropical(mango), dried and yellow, as the molasses is dark with black tea, chesnuts and a bit flowery, bitter, after the rest, herbaceous. 8,3:The finish is long, dry and tannic, the notes are dark with smoky, roasted wood with leather, dark chocolate, toffee, pairing the dried and citrus fruits, raspberry, herbaceous molasses. Edit:28.11.25

Community shelf

51 bottles logged by 47 collectors.

Both drunk and collected.

31% opened, 8 emptied.

35 sealed 8 open 8 emptied

What did the community pay for New Grove Savoir Faire Double Cask Acacia?

Community paid 47–64 €.

Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 57 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ ›

51 purchased · 59 tasted · 23 wishlist · as of

Details about New Grove Savoir Faire Double Cask Acacia

A rum from Mauritius, distilled by Grays, at 47%.

DistilleryGrays
CountryMauritius
Raw materialMolasses
ABV47%
Age8 years
Volume70cl

About the Grays distillery

The Grays distillery is located in Mauritius. Rums from Grays have been reviewed 2,866 times with an average of 8.0/10.

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Mauritius

Country

Mauritius 

Avg Rating 7.6/10 over 500 Rums

Mauritius is the rum island of the Indian Ocean, a sugarcane country that makes it all: smooth aged molasses rum, fresh-juice agricole, and the spiced and fruit-steeped rhum arrange that locals drink. That range across three rum styles makes it one of the most varied origins in rum, still flying under the radar of most drinkers.

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