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01CDA374-2153-4299-B570-74C41D4F3476Martinique Distillerie du Simon
HSE Single Cask 1998 70cl bottle
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Rum Agricole · 13 years · 47.8%

HSE Single Cask 1998

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How does HSE Single Cask 1998 taste?

Aggregated from 6 community reviews.

Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat

Full aroma profile Aroma families · nose & palate · top aromas

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What does the community say?

9.2/10 Excellent

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

Top 3% of Martinique rumsTop 2% at Distillerie du Simon

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Distribution of all 6 ratings
9–10 67%
8–9 33%
7–8 0%
6–7 0%
5–6 0%
4–5 0%
0–4 0%

Ranges include their upper bound: “7–8” means above 7 up to and including 8. See the full rating guide

Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰

Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Apr 20267,207 reviewsDenmark
9.2/10

#6668 20.04.2026 Relaxing with a few samples while watching House of Davis on Amazon Prime. This is a really good and well balanced bottling. Nice roasted wood with fruits, spice and light tobacco.

Review by Johannes

Johannes
Nov 20253,209 reviewsGermany
9.1/10

Fantastic HSE! Despite the low ABV very intense, complex, lots of wood influence, spiciness, dark red fruits.

Review by Benoit Bail

Benoit Bail
Benoit Bail
Jun 202034 reviews
9.4/10

A prestigious rum to be enjoyed on great occasions.

Community shelf

19 bottles logged by 18 collectors.

Both drunk and collected.

26% opened, 2 emptied.

14 sealed 3 open 2 emptied

What did the community pay for HSE Single Cask 1998?

Avg. community purchase price 450 €.

What members paid for this bottle, self-reported. Not a market value — the purchases are over three years old at the median and unverified.

19 purchased · 7 tasted · 16 wishlist · as of

Details about HSE Single Cask 1998

A Rhum Agricole AOC from Martinique, distilled by Distillerie du Simon, at 47.8%.

CountryMartinique
CategoryRhum Agricole AOC
Raw materialSugar cane juice
DistillationCreole Column
ABV47.8%
Age13 years
Vintage1998
Limited edition600 bottles
Sugar0 g/L
Volume70cl
Cask #42
Single cask

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Distillerie du Simon

Distillery

Distillerie du Simon 

Avg Rating 8.0/10 340 Rums

Le Simon is Martinique's ghostwriter. It is the island's most technologically advanced distillery, yet it sells no rum under its own name, runs no public tours, and ages nothing on site. Instead it distils two of the most beloved names in Martinique agricole, HSE and, until recently, Clement, on stills moved here from their original homes. What you taste as HSE is, in fact, Le Simon.

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9.0–10.0 Excellent your rum Stash as many as you can afford. Tell no one.
8.0–8.9 Very good Bank a backup. Tell everyone you meet.
7.0–7.9 Good Buy one and recommend it to your friends.
6.0–6.9 Pleasant Solid, super glad I drank it.
5.0–5.9 Average Totally acceptable.
4.0–4.9 Drinkable Not vocally complaining.
3.0–3.9 Poor Wish I was drinking something else.
2.0–2.9 Very poor Nothing nice to say.
1.0–1.9 Unpleasant No, that's not for me.
0.1–0.9 Inedible Pour it out.