Savanna Unshared Cask for Belgium
A rum for curious explorers who like fruity, slightly funky profiles without extreme intensity. Expect green and yellow fruits, apple pie notes and light cognac wood, in a relatively soft, easy 50% package.
- Fruity apple profile
- Cognac cask influence
- Fresh and easygoing
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Fruity, fresh Savanna with cognac twist A rum for curious explorers who like fruity, slightly funky profiles without extreme intensity. Expect green and yellow fruits, apple pie notes and light cognac wood, in a relatively soft, easy 50% package.
Fans of lighter Savanna or agricole-leaning rums who enjoy fresh apple and yellow fruits with a cognac cask touch, and prefer character over heavy sweetness.
Lovers of heavy Savanna Grand Arôme/HERR funk or big, oily cask-strength rums, and anyone wanting a long, powerful finish.
How is Savanna Unshared Cask for Belgium rated?
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Review by Rhum Mirror 🇧🇪
Au nez c’est pâtissier et légèrement boisé. Mais on sent déjà que l’on va croquer à pleine dent dans la pomme ! C’est jeune, frais et léger. En bouche, c’est très rond. C’est très doux, l’alcool est parfaitement intégré. On mange une bonne tarte aux pommes de grand mamy ! Sur la finale le HERR tire son épingle du jeu avec sa fraise tagada et l’olive. Les 5 fruits et légumes quotidiens sont engloutis en quelques gorgées. OK, si tu regardes l’étiquettes et que tu vois que c’est un blend contenant du HERR vieilli 5 ans, c’est frustrant car pas assez explosif. Mais c’est top.
Review by Tom Buteneers
Ik heb de fles nu enkele maanden open staan. Ik vind het wat minder fruitig dan op het begin. Niet zo intensief en vluchtig dan de HERR, maar de aanwezigheid ervan hierin is merkbaar. De rijping op cognac vaten biedt een aangename dimensie die goed uitgebalanceerd is. Ik hou ervan, maar ik kan me voorstellen dat dat niet voor iedereen geldt.
Review by Philip M. 🇧🇪
25/01/2025: tasted @ Liquid Leuven in "De Hoorn". Another nice surprise that day. I don't have much experience yet with rums from Savanna/La Réunion, but I liked this one. Matured in ex-Cognac casks.
Review by Rare Akuma
Tasted at Liquid Leuven ‘25 The nose opens fantastically playful with juicy yellow fruits mixed with yoghurt and mid-summer breakfast notes. It develops into dried flowers and those typical Provence candied peaches and apricots, instantly bringing me back to my childhood. It’s young, but fresh and exciting. The palate leans more into red fruits and the sweets get cemented into a more sugary form. It’s spicy with elements of short-steeped oolong tea. For my taste a hair too thin. The finish is pepper-dusted, slightly hot, and very dry. Too short and fueled by brown sugar for my liking. In my opinion not on the level you would expect from an unshared cask, but judged too harshly.
Review by Rumclub Latvia
Aroma is amazing Palate little bit disappointed, was expected more. Aroma are very close to HV white HERR. Happy to get this same character, but in this release it’s more round and less intense - cask gives something new, but also takes something from raw distillate
Review by John Coffey
Très léger et frais au premier abord mais sympa en bouche.. Les épices viennent par la suite..
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
27.02.2021 A nice blind tasting in a friend's home. Bottles covered in tin foil and only numbers to match up the glass with the bottle. Notes Light to medium dark in colour. Nose Fresh, light wood, light roasted, or and, coconut, faint smoke, raisin. Palate Balanced, fresh, light wood, orange, coconut, light spicy, faint mint, light vegetal. Finish Medium long, light wood, dried fruit, light orange, faint licorice.
Review by Rodolphe
Un bon savanna mais que j'ai trouvé personnellement un peu mince. Il passe assez vite en bouche. Le HERR aurait peut être pu se faire mieux sentir. Mais en même temps c'est aussi à replacer dans sa gamme de prix. De ce point de vue là, c'est un excellent rapport qualité/prix.
Review by Jeremy Roger 🇫🇷
Un nez boisé et fumé et un peu plus sur le végétal après aération. En bouche c'est plutôt floral et fruité, assez doux et plaisant. Un rhum léger avec une légère acidité qui fait penser à de la pomme. C'est bon et agréable mais un peu trop léger à mon goût
Review by TheRhumhoe
This Single Cask for Belgium has a rather atypical, full-bodied profile for its young age. The nose is heavily influenced by fruit (raisins, yellow fruit and green apple), but spicy and floral notes balance the profile. It gains in opulence and fruitiness as it airs, but with a skilful balance between sweetness and complexity. A promising Savanna on paper. On the palate, however, there's a sensation of lightness, altered by a diluted edge that spoils the opening. This is a pity, as the fruity markers (yellow fruit, green apple, grape) remain perceptible but are much less aromatic on the palate. Bitterness and greenness take up more space, as do oak and spice. The alcohol could have been better integrated. The finish is very short, with only a faint hint of fruit, soon overtaken by the woody, vegetal influence that adds bitterness. A very changeable profile, a little disconcerting, which could have been aged a little longer to gain in finesse and depth.
Review by Rowald Sweet Empire
A pretty mild Savanna. Not really outspoken. Honey. Freshness. A hint of the cognac-wood. Actually expected a bit more from this.
Review by Jacques etdom
Au nez, une impression de fraîcheur, de la pomme, des fruits jaunes, de la fumée et des épices. Ça sent l agricole. La bouche est assez légère et souple, probablement trop, sur la continuité du nez avec un côté boisé. La finale est de moyenne à courte. Sympa, mais sans plus.
Review by Filip Šikula
Na nose je to opravdu velmi veľmi intenzivne jablečné. V chuti se přidá sladkost a jablka stále zůstavají silně dominantní. Alkohol je pěkně integrovaný. Připomene se až lehce v závěru, který je spíše krátší. Zajímávé, ale takové zbytečn řídké.
Review by alex
C’est bon, un peu trop léger à mon goût. Manque de complexité.
Review by ...and a bottle of Rum.
Nose: green apple, cut grass (a day old), dried flowers, cider... not too appealing. Mouth: calvados-y, light fruits, grassy. Finish: on similar notes. not too long. Well, this one falls a bit short compared to the Grand Arômes from yesterday. I wonder why Savanna doesn't do more GA... this here feels boring in comparison.
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About the Savanna distillery
The Savanna distillery is located in Reunion. Rums from Savanna have been reviewed 7,562 times with an average of 8.3/10.
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