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TRC Enmore Guyana Single Cask MEC 1988
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Most tasters land on "elegant and soft" for this 32-year Enmore — prunes, sour cherry, leather, tobacco and dry oak, with one reviewer calling it Grandma's rumtopf in a glass. A minority disagrees: a couple find it thin and watery for its age, wishing for more spice and complexity to counter the heavy molasses sweetness.
The community says- Silky texture
- Rumtopf fruit
- But: Can read thin
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How does TRC Enmore Guyana Single Cask MEC 1988 taste?
Summarized by AI from 52 community reviews.
Soft, fruity old Enmore sipper Loved for its silky texture and old-Demerara fruit, leather and tobacco. A few find it too restrained and thin for a 32-year-old, wanting more punch.
Fans of soft, fruity aged Demerara
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Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat
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52 community reviews
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Positive from 8.0 · Mixed 6.0–7.9 · Critical below 6.0
Review by Jakob
Most helpful positive review
Nice, heavy demerara. Alcohol is cleanly integrated and the notes of wood, leather and spices are nicely balanced by light fruit notes. In direct comparison with other releases a bit too shy in expression, a little more spiciness would have suited the rum well - so the heavy sweet notes remain without significant counterpart. Given the quality of this heavy sweetness, this is undoubtedly grumbling at a high level; for an even better rating, however, lacks precisely at this point still some aromatic variety.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
Most helpful mixed review
Compared to some 30-year-old Enmores that also only have 48%, I find this one very weak, seems watered down and overall quite thin and weak. For the money, I expect more complexity, which this simply does not offer.
Review by cigares
A sample picked up at the German Rum Festival in 2024. A nose of soft caramel with a slight acetic note, very ripe tropical fruits, and dominant wood. The entry on the palate is also marked by wood with a bitterness linked to the prolonged barrel aging. Beautiful aromas of prunes and other fruits compete with the molasses to reach the level of the wood. It’s a rum with a very nice length but again too dominated by the wood and the bitterness that comes with it. A nice acidity brings balance at the finish. The empty glass, with less dominant wood, is superb and the fruits come through there.
Review by LukaŽiga
9,1:On the nose, prunes and grapes, citrus fruits, pineapple, raisins and dried apricots, roasted wood notes like chocolate, nuts, leather, spicy with allspice, earthy molasses with tobacco, bump into our nosetrils. On aeration, the molasses is even darker with black tea, soy sauce, vegetal, umami joins, brown sugar, walnuts or rather pecans...very round and balanced. 8,8:On the palate, the attack is soft, slightly bitter with thick molasses, minty, vegetal, dark with soy sauce, black tea, licorice earthy with tobacco, various dried fruits like prunes, apricots, raisins, some sour cherry, roasted wood notes like caramel, brown sugar, dark chocolate, leather, nuts, oaky, slightly salty, spicy with allspice. 9:The finish is long, dry&tannic, fruity with raisins, dried apricots, raspberry, citrus fruits, dark molasses with licorice, vegetal with hints of mushrooms, soy sauce, earthy with tobacco, musty, roasted wood notes like crème brûlée, caramel, burnt sugar, nuts and leather.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Yet another good one from this bottler, unfortunately I couldnt get a bottle so I'm on the hunt for one at the moment. The nose is wonderfully fruity with spices all very well balanced actually. I also find brown sugar and nice gentle wood. The palate is oily and silky in a way. The rum draws nice curtains in the glass. Again fruity like the nose with caramel and a hint of leather. In consecutive sips I get rubber, tar and wonderful oak. The finish is very long with earthy oak and clove with a hint of licorice.
Review by Alexander Rasch
A great rum because it is very elegant, soft and yet complex. Very tasty and dangerously easy to drink. Easy sipper on the highest level. The somewhat low alcohol hardly bothers me here. Drank the rum extra isolated, without high cask strength rums. Catches me not quite like a KFM or REV but definitely very Legga😇
Review by Leo Krüper
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Review by RumTaTa
As very nice I feel the flavors like prunes and already overripe sour cherries. Great rum, really reminds me strongly of grandma's rum pot with plums,. Cherries, peach and raisins.
Review by Florent Apl
A nice old Enmore, it has the expected profile: dried plum on the nose, raisins, tobacco, wood and pencil shavings as well. On the palate, wood and tobacco come forward, alcohol is very well integrated. Finale is a bit short though, but overall it's a very decent rum.
Review by Master P
The nose is wonderfully fruity with spices, all very well balanced. On the palate, it is oily and somehow silky. Fruity like on the nose with caramel and a hint of leather. The finish is very short with earthy oak and a touch of licorice.
Review by Frank
Oh, already dark and woody-spicy on the nose. Immediately comes sulfured dried apricot and prunes with their heavy sweetness. Dry wood and distinctly leather and tobacco. A touch of tart cassis. A smell to fall in love with.Very balanced on the palate. Malty and woody-spicy with a slightly sour-salty sweetness of treacle. Thereby also licorice with it. I got toffee and caramel chocolate. Leather and oak.Intense enough despite only being 49% now. Great old Enmore!
Review by Thunderbird
N: sofort steigen Gewürznoten von Nelke, Leder und getrocknetem Obst, hier Pflaume und Aprikose auf! Das ganze aber sehr zurückhaltend, angenehm, irgendwie elegant! G: Der Rum breitet sich samtig und weich im Mundraum aus, Alkohol ist kaum wahrnehmbar, eine leichte Fassnote von Eiche mit der dazugehörigen Bitterkeit, Gewürznoten von Nelken und im Hintergrund leichte Noten von getrocknetem Obst! Der Abgang ist mittellang und wird von den Gewürzen und dem Geschmack eines Eichenfass dominiert! Ein edler und sanfter weicher Rum
Review by Thomas
Beautiful Guyana. Very fruity for the age, great wood, sometimes even sweetish. Dried fruits, leather and tobacco, all there but subtle. Round and nice. Would like more of it.
Review by Anders Bovien
Mec profile not that complex but overall nice and tasty I like the bitter profile with a bite
Review by Александр Иванов
Wow ! Wonderful ! Nose: leather, tobacco, toasted wood, cedar wood, licorice, some umami, dark chocolate, prunes, raisins, dry apricots, cinnamon and hint of malt. On the background you can find some herbals. Palate: Sweety, oily. Rich taste of dark chocolate, coffee, dark malt, molasses, prunes, baking apples, roasted malt, tobacco.some herbals & spices. Aftertaste: long g & dark. Prunes, dark chocolate, leather, coffee.
Review by Anonymous
It got all the elements that great Enmore drams should have. Ripe fruits shattered gently on my tongue while giving extreme smoothness. Delicate spices coated every surface of my mouth. What can I say! Absolument délicieux...
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28 bottles logged by 20 collectors.
Both drunk and collected.
17% opened, 4 emptied.
What did the community pay for TRC Enmore Guyana Single Cask MEC 1988?
Community paid 180–214 €.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 182 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
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Details about TRC Enmore Guyana Single Cask MEC 1988
A Pot Still Rum from Guyana, bottled by The Rum Cask, at 47.9%.
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