RA Barbados Rum Rockley Style BBR 1986

Pretty much perfect. One of the very best rums I could taste to date. A bit more medicinal in the nose than I'm used to from Barbados. Alcohol is perfectly integrated. The whole thing is extremely well balanced.

Das war DER nahezu perfekte Rum

One of the world's best rums fällig? For me, this applies to this one in many respects, even objectively considered. Because what the perfectly selected barrel in fasst 35 perfect years here with the rum has organized, is just madness and definitely liquid gold.After about three quarters of an hour, you get here in the form of intense honey, beeswax, pine needles, resin, mango, vanilla and smoke Rockley essence presented...and in its most intense form. Not an ounce of alcohol here tangents this outstanding aroma package. The palate is incredibly oily, sweet, velvety, warm and not a trace of alcohol. The only thing that keeps me here from 100 points, are the perhaps 4% too little ABV and that the world's best PMs according to my gusto are again somewhat more complete

Diese Honigsüße ist der Wahnsinn. Vom Geschmacksprofil total anders... Leichte Zitrusfrüchte sind zu schmecken. Im Abgang eine wunderbare dezente Rauchnote

Incredibly intense on the nose and palate, plus creamy and oily. A real great drink flow that the rum Artesanal could create if you had more of it. A really beautiful rum that clearly showed us why there was so much hype around this bottling. The complexity in conjunction with the pronounced sweetness is also something very special in this W.I.R.D.

Not at all recognizable as Barbados on the nose. You can taste that it has been matured continentally. The nose is very complex. I don't know many others that have so much to offer. Very floral, soft and elegant in the mouth. Finishes slightly sweet with some saltwater olive and young wood. Would love to try one that has been tropically matured.

So, jetzt ist er dran, der hochgelobte RA Rockley. Zurecht? Ja! Schon mit der ersten Geruchsprobr kommt einem die volle Bandbreite an süßen Früchten entgegen: Litschi, Orange, Mango, allerlei gelbe Früchte. Zudem tolle Noten von Honig und Bienenwach. Angenehme Holznoten. Im Geschmack ein ähnlich guter Eindruck. Tropische Früchte, Mirabellen, Kaffee, Gewürze. Auch hier eine angenehme Süße mit Honig und Bienenwabe. Kleiner Wermutstropfen: Der Abgang ist eher kurz. Hier geht auch ein Danke an Oliver für das 30DoR-Sample!👍

Incredibly intense on the nose and palate, plus creamy and oily. A real great drink flow that the rum Artesanal could create if you had more of it. A really beautiful rum that clearly showed us why there was so much hype around this bottling. The complexity in conjunction with the pronounced sweetness is also something very special in this W.I.R.D.

Benchmark Rockley! ❤️A liquid dream!Compared to the SS, Nobilis and Plantation, it has both the best nose and the best palate. Very nice roundness, alcohol top integrated, some smoke, but overall a honey monster!

by far the most complex of the 8 1986 Rockleys I know. incredibly creamy, drinkable & harmonious. For me, on a par with the silver Seal, even if it is stylistically somewhat different. but this combination of mango, papaya, allspice, olives, vanilla and fresh acacia honey with creme brulee, sandalwood and tonka/vanilla is simply gigantic! Hammer! absolutely brilliant stuff, chapeau to RA, you delivered great cinema here back then!🙏🇧🇧💥💣

What a grenade ... words fail me ! A rum for the whole evening ... enjoyment and amazement in the glass! Incredibly complex mango, papaya and honey with a hint of smoke. One of the best bottlings from the master Dominik Marwede... too bad that this chapter is over.

This rum is almost surreal. The alcohol is so well integrated here that you can fully engage in a relaxed aroma journey through a flower meadow, a forest and a plantation with tropical fruits.

Sweet vanilla, floral woody on tongue that I have tasted never before EDIT: soo technical and fruity on nose. Glue, peaches, flowers, vanilla, wood on tounge. And sooo fresh! This one is the best WIRD 86 among all I have tasted.

Danke, liebes RA Team 🥃👍🏻