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The Whisky Jury Long Pond 2005
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Sip this one neat and give it time — 30 minutes in the glass opens up cherry, candied fruit and mango over a creamy body. There's the classic Long Pond glue and ester note, but tasters agree the wood grows louder toward the finish, turning dry and a touch bitter. At 62.1% the alcohol sits surprisingly well-integrated. One member said the fruit and focus "just blew me away."
The community says- Ripe tropical fruit
- Creamy body
- But: Woody bitter finish
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How does The Whisky Jury Long Pond 2005 taste?
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Creamy, fruity Long Pond with a woody, bitter finish Loved as a rounded, fruity Long Pond with creamy texture and well-hidden heat. Most consistent gripe: the finish leans woody and slightly bitter. Less ester-driven than some hoped.
Jamaican funk fans who like fruit-forward, cask-strength pot still
Anyone put off by bitter oak or high ABV
Style & occasion: Mature & oakyTropical & funky
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Review by Oliver
Very good Long Pond! Sticky, spicy and creamy. Relatively high acidity and overripe fruit - intense, but not unpleasant. The profile is also reminiscent of New Yarmouth (2009 vintages). The intensity suggests a tropical (partial) maturation.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
31.10.2025 Retasting at Tom's wedding. --------- 09.07.2021 Attended a nice tasting arranged by a friend of mine. Notes Intense, light wood, ester, varnish, fruity, overripe, light mint, light tobacco, Palate Intense, warm, wood, ester, light citrus, anise, faint vegetal, light glue, faint nutts. Finish Very long and warm, wood, light glue, light nutts, light citrus. Still amazing how well balanced this release is.
Review by SaibotZtar
Very drinkable Long Pond ...after 30min in the glass it opens up nicely ...peach and some cherry come through ...I like it very much especially because it is not so woody. Top combination with a HD in Mai Tai. Delicious
Review by LukaŽiga
9:On the nose, esters and eucalyptus bump into our nosetrils, with toasted coconut, roasted wood notes like treacle, almonds, fruits like cherry and lime, minty molasses, some spice and nail polish. On aeration, the molasses is herbaceous, the fruits candied, dried, there are banana, pear. We might notice tannins, as the wood gives us roastedness with smoke, confectionery, cocoa and marzipan, some cinnamon...very complex. 9,2:On the palate, the attack is extremely delicious with mango, papaya, toasted coconut, creamy roasted wood notes like nuts, chocolate, spices like vanilla and candied fruits.There are esters, metallic patina, minty, herbaceous and floral molasses, darn' is this full-bodied rum, with oxidation new wave of different fruits arises with bergamot, pineapple, cherry and green fruits. 9:The finish is long, round, dry&tannic, slightly vegetal, as variery of fruits is pairing creamy roasted wood notes and spices... Edit:12.12.25, 😋
Review by Timo Groeger
Crazy stuff this Long Pond. Definitely a real ester bomb, totally hits my taste. Otherwise there's still plenty of glue, but also dried fruits and coconut are recognizable.
Review by Filip Šikula
Perfect Long Pond. The nose is rather weak for Long Ponds, yet it doesn't hide the syrupy tones of glue, esters and candied fruit. In the mouth then a beautiful complex rum, with creamy smoothness, perfectly integrated alcohol, hints of spices and fruit. Pleasant finish. Another ZN (pour again!) rum.
Review by Basti
Less fruity on the nose than some other 2005 VRWs, but otherwise a very similar profile. On the palate - similar to The Whisky Blues - a slightly floral/perfumed start. Overall also a tasty 2005 LP!
Review by Boletus
Mouth-filling and multi-layered, with an almost syrupy finish. The esters, which only have a few solvent notes at the beginning and are otherwise quite fruity, are really fun and the cask makes a fitting contribution in the form of fresh, toasted wood and spicy spices. The aromas linger for an appealingly long time with a subtle, metallic aftertaste that doesn't bother me any further. A really great Lond Pond!
Review by mto75
sets itself apart again clearly from the 2000 RA and whiskey jury! Somehow a concentrate of young wood and cherry liqueur, garnished with a few drops of iodine. On the palate candied fruit and young wood, which also so accompanies the finish.
Review by Johannes
Really good Long Pond! Rather on the bitter side. Tropically matured?!
Review by Domi Mal
Nice nose, doesn't overwhelm, spicy, esters, young wood, caramel, mint, almond, citrus! Pleases me well. On the palate the spice continues, wood, eucalyptus, velvety and full-bodied, citrus and some sweetness of almond, coconut and caramel! Finish young wood, currant, coffee, velvety/fuzzy but pleasant! Great, round tropical Long Pond without big edges and corners.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
Insanely awesome Long pond. Pineapple carpaccio with mint, apricot dumplings, buttered breadcrumbs and custard and bergamot citrus rub, plus some coffee and dark chocolate with nice ester funkyness on the finish! Extremely round and beautiful. Makes really fun! Could only be minimally less bitter then it would be 90 points
Review by Vincent D
A very discreet nose for me. Much more expressive on the palate. Chiseled wood, glue, mango. Warm. Esterized. Very pleasant. Finish not as long as I thought it would be. Still on wood, esters. Powerful yet controlled. Complex and round. Very cool.
Review by Rodolphe
Tasted a while ago, I'm going back over my notes. It's great. Jamaica as I like it, not the ester bomb of the diluted white spirit type, but a fantastic delicacy. Excellent.
Review by Thunderbird
A very elegant, quaffable impressive rum... it knows how to please from the first second... the alcohol is perfectly integrated and carries the aroma very pleasantly from light sweetness to the restrained fresh wood impact! Extremely tasty
Review by Mentalo
Nice creaminess. Alcohol well integrated. Fruity, esters and spices. Slight sweetness. The finish has clearly stronger wood notes, slightly bitter. That's probably my biggest criticism of the bottling. Still a nice bottling from The Whisky Jury.
Review by zabo
Wow, another very good LongPond from 2005. Slowly the question arises for me: are there really bad ones from this vintage? For me a true delight and can easily keep up with its other competitors from the vintage.
Review by Jakob
Round, aromatic, balanced. Beautiful release that successfully combines fruit with wood and spices. Very drinkable.
Review by Christian Rudt
What a great rum. Many roasted notes greet you. Lots of tropical fruit. Simply pure invitation. Taste-wise, the rum delivers everything I expect from a Jamaica rum. You can of course make more esters but here we have rum bottled at the perfect time.
Review by Double Barrel
The fruitiness and the focus of this one just blew me away!
Review by Caroni.Martin
Simply fantastic
Review by Alexander Rasch
Great fruity nose with lots of cherry, berries and glue. On the palate then clearly more wood influence without it becoming unbalanced. The finish gets increasingly bitter. A very good composition. I really like it and I'm happy to have the bottle in the rum shelf 😊
Review by Lot-NAS
Without many words - a great Long Pond!
Review by Stijn Zino
Creamy LP with nice fruit. Light nose, with dark fruit. Warm, herbal and creamy palate. Wood finish. Missing some funk, lower mark? But really good rum.
Review by Richard Krupa
Dense, pronounced aroma, dense, pronounced taste. Cherries, esters, slight sharpness, in the finish slightly sharp and woody.
Review by Pavel Ungr, RumRock
Vintage 2005. I rate it 8.6 out of 10, an excellent rum that ranks high even among my more than 1,300 ratings.
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38 bottles logged by 32 collectors.
Both drunk and collected.
21% opened, 6 emptied.
What did the community pay for The Whisky Jury Long Pond 2005?
Community paid 96–187 €.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 121 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ ›
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Details about The Whisky Jury Long Pond 2005
A rum from Jamaica, bottled by The Whisky Jury, at 62,1%.
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