La Favorite La Flibuste

Best rum i ever tasted !

Nice rum from Martinique

Just opened a bottle of the 1985. Dark, almost viscous but with a great aroma and wonderful from the first sip.

Clear and Deep Brown color.
Clean Pronounced aromas of Grass from the cane is the most present, then your further get burnt sugar, vanilla, fruit cake and I think wood polish..
Sweet with a Mouth-filling texture, Pronounced flavors first of the grass and burnt sugar, then aromas of banana, vanilla, mix fruits and an ended note of tobacco, all in the most balanced way which lasts for a Long length and Very complex on the finish.
Outstanding quality.

I was lucky enough to be able to buy two bottles of this from the Boutique at the distillery.
I was fully expecting it to be stupidly expensive, given the unusually high ratings this rum (rhum) has garnered on here, but it was surprisingly cheap at the equivalent of £110 per bottle, once exchange rates are taken into account.
The idea was that I would get two bottle so I could drink one and sell the other on Ebay, but apparently, that's not allowed. I'm half way through the first bottle now and I'm thinking that unless I get a generous offer, I'll just keep it for myself.
I haven't quite figured this rum (rhum) out yet.
Whilst at he distillery, I tasted their young white rum, Coeur de Cann and found it interesting, but not really terribly enjoyable ... I'm in no particular rush to try it again.
La Flibuste , however is possibly the most unusual rum (rhu... you get the point) I have tasted so far.
I'm finding it difficult to describe the notes I get either on the nose or in the mouth ... there's definitely cognac, bourbon and ... bear with me here ... cola nut. The sweetness comes from demerara and treacle. I feel that there is oak there, but it is masked by something I can't quite put a name to.
The single most impressive thing about this rum is the amount of time you taste it for, after swallowing. It goes on for literally hours.
I kinda feel about this rum, the same way I felt about the novels of WIlliam S. Burroughs ... I don't really understand it, but I definitely know I want to explore it further in the vain hope that I will "get" it.
I haven't tried it with a cigar ... it doesn't feel like the right thing to do.
The only thing I know for sure is that once I take the last sip of a glass, I am finding it exceedingly difficult to not pour another.

If you get the chance, you should definitely try this stuff, if for no other reason than you can help me understand it.

This 15 years aged rum has incomparable smoothness and aromatics qualities: plum, mango, cinnamon,and liquorice on the final note.

I tried this amazing rhum at the famous Rum Bar in the beautiful Whitsunday Isles in North Queensland. Wow , where do I start ? A 1982 bottle according to the cork. Dark stone fruit colour on pouring with the aroma filling the air..
So many things going on in there.. love the cognac taste , soft , fills your mouth with rich fruits , beautiful.. theres no hurry to swallow at all.
No burn , just a velvety exit.
A rare joy to taste.. my first agricole that was amazing.

Un excellent trait d'union entre les excellents rhums d'amerique du sud et ceux des Antilles!

Brought back from the Caribbean by a friend - enjoyed small glass - best rum I’ve ever tasted

Very complex, delicious rum. A lot of fruits and spice.

I took a miniature cap-full of this left a taste that stayed in my mouth for about two minutes. The dambdest thing is, it kept tasting different over those two minutes.
Truly wonderful tastes in the first sip. Mellow as mellow can be. That Martinique funk but it's been really mellowed out by age.

It would be wrong to call it a rainbow of true flavor, because it was a decidedly deep rum hue. However, it was definitely a rainbow of rum flavor.