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Cadenhead's SLJD 1999
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Sour cherry and dried herbs lead, then it turns heavy — roasted wood, leather, a bitter edge and an oily body that coats the glass. At 70.8% this is a brute, but tasters keep calling the alcohol well integrated for the proof. Several regulars rate it the best St. Lucia they've had, proof that a rum doesn't need decades to hit hard.
The community says- Dense and complex
- Integrated alcohol
- Long oily body
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How does Cadenhead's SLJD 1999 taste?
Summarized by AI from 13 community reviews.
Heavy, herbal cask-strength St. Lucia Consensus is high and unusually warm: dense, powerful, and complex, with the cask-strength heat woven in rather than fighting you. One taster found it strange and bitter — most just wish they'd bought more.
cask-strength fans wanting heavy, herbal pot still
anyone put off by high-proof heat
Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat
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Review by Oliver
St. Lucia Champions League
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
08.08.2025 Retasting and I still like it a lot. Should have bought several bottles when I had the chance. ----------------- 10.02.2012 Nice little private tasting with a few friends in the back of this old bar. Notes Medium dark to dark in colour. Nose Fresh, wood, light roasted, fruits, herbs, cherry, vegetal. Palate Oily, round, wood, medium roasted, light caramel, herbs, cherry. Finish Medium long, wood, roasted, fruits, spice, light caramel.
Review by Mirco
Insanely good bottling. It seems to me that with St. Lucia bottlings younger = better or also from 1999. Really great, together with the Nobilis 99 on the Lucia Olympus. Complex and round with nicely integrated alcohol.
Review by Thomas Wille
Finally tried 🥰🙏 outstandingly good
Review by Christoph H.
Heavy, complex, powerful, brute, concentrated. For me, the best St Lucia and a nice impression that good rum does not necessarily have to be old
Review by Pavel Spacek
OMG, this one is strange. Little bit like WIRD86, but also bitter.
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Details about Cadenhead's SLJD 1999
A rum from Saint Lucia, bottled by Cadenhead's, at 70.8%.
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