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20D2F5FC-0583-426A-B815-FACB4FC27244Jamaica Clarendon That Boutique-Y Rum Company
TBRC Clarendon Secret Distillery #3 SFJE 50cl bottle
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Aged rum · 14 years · 55.5%

TBRC Clarendon Secret Distillery #3 SFJE

Sipped neat it splits people: give it air and a pleasant Clarendon funk comes through, but the 55.5% alcohol is poorly integrated and can overpower things. Expect banana, mango and yellow fruit up front, varnish and roasted wood behind, then a dry, slightly burnt finish. One taster gets it "passable as a mixer" with cola, though it doesn't shine there either.

The community says
  • Banana and mango nose
  • Real Clarendon funk
  • But: Hot, unintegrated alcohol

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How does TBRC Clarendon Secret Distillery #3 SFJE taste?

Summarized by AI from 17 community reviews.

Fruity Jamaican pot still, hot and varnishy A decent middle-of-the-road Clarendon. The nose charms with fruit and light ester, but the palate turns varnishy and the hot alcohol keeps it from fully opening up.

Perfect for

Jamaican pot-still fans who don't mind rough edges

Less suitable for

Anyone wanting smooth, well-integrated sipping rum

Experience level · Expert (4/5)

Style & occasion: Tropical & funky

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

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7.4/10 Good

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

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Distribution of all 17 ratings
9–10 0%
8–9 6%
7–8 71%
6–7 18%
5–6 0%
4–5 6%
0–4 0%

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Review by LukaŽiga

Most helpful positive review

LukaŽiga
Dec 20251,493 reviewsGermany
8.4/10

8,3:On the nose, esters and fermented tropical fruits like banana, some citrus like lemon, roasted wood notes like dark chocolate, roasted nuts, spicy with vanilla and medicinal notes, bump into our nosetrils. On aeration, the molasses is grassy, flowery, herbaceous and earthy, pairing caramel, pastry and cookie dough, dried fruits and mango...with slightly metallic patina. 8,5:On the palate, the attack is quite spicy with allspice, ginger, fruity with green fruits and banana, as the wood is roasted with confectionery like fruitcake, pastry, slightly salty, creamy with butterscotch.On oxidation, tons of fruits join the game like pineapple, grapefruit, dried currants, raisins, perhaps mango.The molasses gives us a slight bitter tones with olive, mushrooms, medicinal notes help like rubber, varnish, some metallic patina. 8,3:The finish is quite long, dry, with burnt, roasted wood notes, spicy, flowery and grassy molasses, fruits, overripe, from the palate. Edit:20.12.25

Review by Thunderbird

Most helpful mixed review

Thunderbird
Feb 20231,385 reviewsGermany
7.6/10

A good average Clarendon with good PLV! He combines all the classic flavors, only the alcohol is not perfectly integrated! Thus, it suppresses the full development of its quite good assets

Review by Timo Groeger

Timo Groeger
Mar 20253,258 reviewsGermany
7.8/10

I don't think it's bad at all. On the nose, we have predominantly yellow fruits such as banana and mango. It remains fruity on the palate, but some young wood and herbs can still be detected.

Community shelf

10 bottles logged by 9 collectors.

A drinker's rum.

50% opened, 4 emptied.

5 sealed 1 open 4 emptied

What did the community pay for TBRC Clarendon Secret Distillery #3 SFJE?

Avg. community purchase price 59 €.

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Details about TBRC Clarendon Secret Distillery #3 SFJE

A Pot Still Rum from Jamaica, bottled by That Boutique-Y Rum Company, at 55.5%.

DistilleryClarendon
CountryJamaica
CategoryPot Still Rum
Raw materialMolasses
DistillationPot Still
ABV55.5%
Age14 years
Limited edition374 bottles
MarkSFJE
Sugar0 g/L
Volume50cl
Cask #Batch 2

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6.0–6.9 Pleasant Solid, super glad I drank it.
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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.
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