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EU SHIPPING FROM €16
$111
A sixteen year Mauritius molasses rum at 45% with an Armagnac influence, wood-driven and drier with cherry blossom, dried fruit, firm tannins, herbs and dark chocolate, a balanced, thick-bodied and contemplative sipper.
Description
Grays New Grove Savoir-Faire Ville Bague 2004 is a sixteen year old molasses rum from Grays on Mauritius, part of the New Grove range and bottled at 45%. Mauritian rum falls outside the French AOC, and this is a column-distilled molasses rum, so it sits in the drier, wood-forward style rather than the grassy agricole one.
Matured with an Armagnac cask influence, it leans into cherry blossom, dried fruit and a grape-spirit, Armagnac-like character, with firm tannins, herbs and dark chocolate over assertive oak. There is a pleasing sweet-and-sour balance and a thick, slightly tobacco-edged body, finishing on wood and milk chocolate. Drier and more layered than the younger New Grove bottlings, it makes a contemplative sipper and offers good value for the age, best enjoyed slowly neat.
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