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Taste
Solvents, Mango, Woody
Most mentioned across 20 tasting notes
- Perfect for
- Savanna and cane-juice fans who want funk at cask strength
- Less suitable for
- Anyone put off by strong, hot, biting alcohol
Velier Savanna Indian Ocean Stills 2012
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Glue, nail polish and eucalyptus on the nose, then mango, pineapple, peaches and black tea over spicy, roasted wood. It's a cask-strength Savanna cane-juice rum, and the recurring gripe is the alcohol: at 61% several tasters find it hot and not well integrated, "biting" on the first sip. Give it plenty of air and the fruit and tea come forward.
The community says- Tropical fruit
- Black tea, roasted wood
- Less suitable for: Anyone put off by strong, hot, biting alcohol
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Auction results: 67–122 € (6 sales in 24 months, incl. buyer's premium, latest 08/2026). How the range is built ›
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How does Velier Savanna Indian Ocean Stills 2012 taste?
From community reviews · summarized with AI
Funky Savanna agricole, hot and unintegrated Divides even Savanna fans. Fruit, black tea and roasted wood are all there, but most find the 61% alcohol poorly integrated and the whole thing a touch unspectacular for the distillery.
Savanna and cane-juice fans who want funk at cask strength
Anyone put off by strong, hot, biting alcohol
Style & occasion: Tropical & funkySipping neat
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46 community reviews
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Review by LukaŽiga
Most helpful positive review
8,2:On the nose, sugarcane with eucalyptus, glue and varnish, tropical fruits like pineapple, spicy wood and black tea, bump into our nosetrils. On aeration, nail polish is out, mango and peaches, eucalyptus and black tea. 8,1:On the palate, the attack is fresh with flowery, herbaceous sugarcane, fruity with pineapple, apple, later peaches and cherries, pungent and alcoholic with solvents, glue, hints of fruit schnapps, hints of rotten fruits, as the wood is spicy. 8,1:The finish is rather long, slightly hot, alcoholic, the cane is earthy, herbaceous, green, as the wood roasted with nuts smoky, spicy, salty, some licorice could be noticed.
Review by Mirco
Most helpful mixed review
Distinct alcohol note, which hardly diminishes even after a longer period. Rather unspectacular and edgy compared to standard Savannas. Also not really complex. Bitter although the wood does not predominate is special.
Review by cigares
First RumX community meeting in Acht. A rather raw agricultural nose, glue, dry herbs, cedar wood and sweetness. The palate is fruity, quite ample and rich but paradoxically lacks width and especially depth. The alcohol is present and doesn't integrate well. The finish is short. A somewhat rough rum but overall pleasant with some airing.
Review by Pavel Spacek
The alcohol is not integrated. Taste of Savanna unshared cask is there, but too much alcohol over it Rumy z destilerie Savanna jsou jedny z mych nejoblibenejsich. Doporucuji kazdemu vyzkouset zejmena vuce esterove kousky jako je Grand arome nebo HERR. Tolik ovoce v nekolika malo kapkach tekutiny jste dlouho necitili.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
This one is pretty good especially when looking at the price tag at release. Fruity and fresh as well as warm on the palate once rested for a good while. I love the roasted almost burned wood notes on the profile.
Review by Jakob
Better than the Indian Ocean sister bottling of Chamarel, but also here comes across a little too less that lifts the rum over the threshold of sheer complaisance. Although there are a little more edges and corners (worth mentioning is the interplay of black tea with the fruity notes, which leads to an interesting melange of fruit, spice and bitter notes) - but in the end the whole remains a little too little complex. Probably a few more years of storage would have helped to enhance the flavor profile - so the rum remains too unspectacular to be remembered.
Review by Dr.Django
Opinions are divided on this Savanna, or rather most connoisseurs here don't even think it's that good. I've had it in my glass several times and found it very good. Today, for the first time, I can taste a clear alcohol note. I'll give it a chance again and again.
Review by zabo
It didn't quite convince me. It has an interesting taste, but for me it is too unbalanced and the alcohol is not as well integrated as I expected. Unfortunately, the taste was too biting for me. Thanks to Jarek for the sample.
Review by Righrum
A sub par savanna, with an unpleasant roasted side that do not pair well with its profile. Tasted again in late 2024, with more time to delve on it. It has a nice complexity and it is packed with savanna typical flavours, black olives and brine especially.
Review by Gianca Zil
The alcohol is there and you feel it all, although with a slightly wider Savanna glass it is less pungent compared to the Glencaien. Anyway, the 61 degrees hit especially on the first sip. Nose and palate correspond and are coherent even though it’s a product that clashes organoleptically. I sense nutty herbal notes and at the same time hints of sour cherries. Bitter and sweet notes alternate especially in the finish which I find to be the most pleasant part of the drink.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
Peach black tea with a lot of glue and varnish! pretty funky on the nose, in the taste then something a little charred and after salty dark chocolate with strong black tea and licorice. overall but somewhat unbalanced and still right "Brandig" sharp...
Review by Stijn Zino
The Road Rummers Africa tasting Very soft nose. Only thing i'm getting is a bit of Calvados. In the mouth you get spices and black thea wich develop in red fruits mainly cherry. The finish is rather medicinal for me. Overal rather dissapointing rum, but not that bad. Nice for tasting not for buying.
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Expert review by The Dunder Hut
This is rough. The nose is so closed. I really don't get it. Blind you would never guess savanna. Where is any fruit just acidity and wood. I am so amazed by the difference..even the relatively cheap prices don't justify this
Expert review by Le Blog À Roger
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51 bottles logged by 45 collectors.
Both drunk and collected.
27% opened, 5 emptied.
What did the community pay for Velier Savanna Indian Ocean Stills 2012?
Community paid 65–103 €.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 88 €. Price history with 6 auction results in RX+ ›
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Details about Velier Savanna Indian Ocean Stills 2012
A Column Still Rum from Reunion, bottled by Velier, at 61%.
About the Savanna distillery
The Savanna distillery is located in Reunion. Rums from Savanna have been reviewed 8,701 times with an average of 8.3/10.
To Savanna ›Read on in the RumX Guide
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