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9BAAF277-FA33-4674-B29B-250360002780Martinique Distillerie du Simon
HSE Skouras White Wine Cask Finish 2008 150cl bottle
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Rum Agricole · 12 years · 49,5%

HSE Skouras White Wine Cask Finish 2008

For experienced palates, this 12‑year agricole rewards attention with elegant wine-cask influence, candied fruits and refined oak. RumX members praise its balance, freshness and long finish at 49.5% ABV.

The community says
  • Complex and elegant
  • Perfect cask balance
  • But: Not beginner-friendly
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How does HSE Skouras White Wine Cask Finish 2008 taste?

Aggregated from 16 community reviews.

Elegant wine-finished agricole standout Highly praised as a complex, elegant agricole where white wine cask and aged cane juice stay in perfect balance with great freshness, gourmand character and impressive length.

Perfect for

Agricole fans and wine lovers who enjoy complex, slightly vinous profiles with candied fruits, fresh cane and well-integrated oak.

Less suitable for

Beginners or those preferring sweet, easy 40% sippers without vinous or woody notes.

Experience level · Expert (4/5)

Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat

Full aroma profile Aroma families · nose & palate · top aromas
Flavor profile
Sweet & dessert
Wood
Dried fruit
Roasted & dark
Fruit
Funk & ester
Vegetal & floral

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What does the community say?

8.8/10 Very good

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

Top 12% of Martinique rumsTop 9% at Distillerie du Simon

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Distribution of all 16 ratings
9–10 6%
8–9 88%
7–8 6%
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 🇩🇰
Feb 20237,168 reviewsDenmark
8.7/10

This is a nice Agricole and the cask finish has been done to perfection. I love that you get both the Agricole as well as the wine notes at the same time. The wine cask is not dominant but just hovering in there. Fresh and oily on the palate with a very nice and long finish.

Review by Benoit Mahe

Benoit Mahe
Benoit Mahe
Oct 2021401 reviews
8.7/10

A rather winey profile, on candied fruits and wood. It's very well made but not the profile I like most. It's very indulgent.

Review by Christoph

Christoph
Dec 2022454 reviewsGermany
8.8/10

A very elegant wine finish that harmonizes excellently with the Agricole and is neither dominant nor drowned in the freshness of the Agricole.

Community shelf

61 bottles logged by 48 collectors.

A collector's bottle.

1% opened, 1 emptied.

60 sealed 0 open 1 emptied

What did the community pay for HSE Skouras White Wine Cask Finish 2008?

Community paid 195–365 €.

Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 303 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ →

61 purchased · 16 tasted · 12 wishlist · as of

Details about HSE Skouras White Wine Cask Finish 2008

A Rhum Agricole AOC from Martinique, distilled by Distillerie du Simon, at 49,5%.

BrandHSE
CountryMartinique
CategoryRhum Agricole AOC
Raw materialSugar cane juice
DistillationCreole Column
ABV49,5%
Age12 years
Vintage2008
Limited edition450 bottles
Sugar0 g/L
Volume150cl

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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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6.0–6.9 Pleasant Solid, super glad I drank it.
5.0–5.9 Average Totally acceptable.
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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.
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