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Diamond (Versailles) S.B.S Guyana 2003
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Smoky oak, graphite and pipe tobacco lead here, with vanilla, anise and a maple-syrup edge from what tasters spot as a sweet-wine (Marsala) finish. A single wooden pot still Versailles at cask strength, but drinkers call it rounder and milder than the 62.8% suggests. The recurring gripe: a touch too sweet on the nose for a Diamond, with metallic notes some found distracting.
The community says- Smoky oak & tobacco
- Well-integrated alcohol
- Keep in mind: Sweet on the nose
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How does Diamond (Versailles) S.B.S Guyana 2003 taste?
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Woody, dry Guyana with a sweet-wine finish Well liked overall — dry, woody and warming with tobacco and vanilla. Several felt the sweet-wine finish and a slight metallic edge kept it from feeling fully balanced.
Fans of dry, woody Demerara-style pot still rum at cask strength
Anyone wanting a soft, sweet sipper or classic Versailles character
Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat
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Yes, if you're after bold, mature, oaky rums for sipping neat.
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Sweeter
Diamond S.B.S Guyana SVL 20038.1/10 (66)203.00 €
Milder
Uitvlugt (Port Mourant) S.B.S Guyana 1999 PM8.1/10 (25)238.99 €
Fruitier
DDL S.B.S Guyana 20038.0/10 (41)144.40 €
What does the community say?
21 community reviews
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Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
Most helpful positive review
To me, the alcohol seems only suboptimally integrated. Update 24.06.2022:Today, the rum still seems to me a bit too brute on the palate, but for that I taste no annoying finish, certainly not sweet wine, but just, as it should be, graphite (pencil shavings).A rum with dry charm and character.Because I tasted the RX1378 in parallel, I held that on the palate stubbornly for this SBS (keyword "heavy sweetness") . 🥴🙈 One may convict me of the grandiose error! 🙏😉
Review by Jakob
Most helpful mixed review
Still relatively sweet on the nose, then dominated on the palate by spices and metallic notes. Good, but not completely convincing and in my opinion not fully balanced in taste.
Review by Frank
A maturation in sweet wine barrels is always such a thing... can make a mediocre rum better, but for me it is mostly nix. Nose: spicy, woody, fruity and sweetish. It comes through right away, the Marsala finish. Behind the sweetness, which is already a tad too much for me, many flavors come through. Lovely cherry wood, lightly toasted, Marashino cherry, dried apricot, pipe tobacco with vanilla, strong maple syrup. Palate: much rounder than expected. Strong and spicy, woody and toasty without being unpleasantly bitter. Slightly salty with nutmeg. The finish mellows out the Diamond nicely. Overall I don't think it's bad, nose a bit too sweet, palate pleasantly round. ABV fits very well.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Just finished a nice evening going through some of the samples we got from 1423.
Review by Filip Šikula
I would say that for Guyana this is quite a young rum, although it is true that s.b.s bottlings often bring that. In this case the nose is mainly cask, the taste comes in round, warming with a pleasant alcohol. After a second it vibrates the tongue and the mouth is flooded with smoky wood. Pleasant.
Review by Rodolphe
It's a very good rum. But I remain a bit unsatisfied, maybe it lacks a bit of indulgence.
Review by bossi
Oak, aniseed, herbs, distinctive vanilla aromas and a subtle sweetness are perceptible on the nose. The sweetness and the pronounced vanilla remind me more of a Column Guyaner than a Versailles rum. So it's not quite a typical Versailles nose as I know it. On the palate, a bitterness is immediately noticeable, which increasingly turns into sweetness, paired with oak, cinnamon and herbs. At 62.8%, the alcohol is well integrated, the rum even seems mild, although it can't compete with older rums from 1990. There are brief flashes of sweet orange aromas in the finish, but they disappear again very quickly. All in all, a good rum. 83 points
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8 bottles logged by 8 collectors.
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25% opened, 1 emptied.
What does Diamond (Versailles) S.B.S Guyana 2003 cost?
Avg. community purchase price 117 €.
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Current best price: 203.00 €.
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Details about Diamond (Versailles) S.B.S Guyana 2003
A Pot Still Rum from Guyana, bottled by 1423 World Class Spirits, at 62,8%.
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About the Diamond (Versailles) distillery
The Diamond (Versailles) distillery is located in Guyana. Rums from Diamond (Versailles) have been reviewed 189 times with an average of 8.1/10.
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