NV Appleton Estate Extra 12 Year Old

Community Tasting Notes (11) Avg Score: 87.6 points

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  12/7/2023 - 3daywinereview.com wrote: 78 Points

  Not nearly as good as the 8 year. Wood, sugar cane, spices and really hot. Stuff is not drinkable straight. Returning bottles.

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  7/4/2019 - SAND Likes this wine: 88 Points

  Nose: Sweet wood, mahogany, wood polish, dried fruits, molasses, leather, dried mango, tarr, hint of smoke and pineapple. With time; dark chocolate. Rich, lovely nose. (89-90p)
  Taste: Dry, rather woody, slightly peppery. Some dried fruits, but they tend to be masked by the wood (82p). With a little water, a bit less woody and slightly sweeter but some tannin bitterness in the aftertaste (84p). With time; less woody, sweeter, with a touch of liquer and dark chocolate (87p).
  Total score 88 points. Needs time in the glass (and a drop of water).

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  6/28/2018 - henrygjeffreys Likes this wine:

  Now this is the stuff, lots of layers of molasses, red fruit, spices, nutmeg, chilli, cloves but also with a lovely aromatic lift which makes it very fresh and moreish.
  Around £35

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  10/1/2017 - Soteriologist wrote: 88 Points

  Observed this from June 16th this year until emptying it the other day. Did a little video on this one (click !).
  
  Nose
  
  Initially an almost biting medicinal smell like fluoride or something in the air at the dentist, acetone, a touch of burnt hair, then it becomes warmer - wood furniture finish, and finally the wood itself, pretty oaky actually.
  
  Palate
  
  Like on the nose, a spicy arrival, cloves and ginger, in fact valerian, bitter development with sweet treacle-toffee interplay, and a somewhat bitter finish, in the length some soda like fizz, like coca cola. On the whole pretty dry, and somewhat chemical. You could also say, it’s like an extremely dry and very funky bourbon.
  
  Measurements have the sugar content at 0 up to 5 g per liter, so it is objectively a good quality spirit and not an alcopop.
  
  I liked it better mixed with the Smith and Cross. The result is the most beautiful and complex blend you could dream of. On the nose it is very orangy and accompanied by warm sawdusty oak and a nutty note of sesame. The medicinal bite is tamed by the powerful smoothness of the Smith and Cross. In that one you have the sweetness, with its Christmas spices, and the power of 57 % abv, and the scotch like complexity of the pot still distillation. And here you have the maturity and hence the depth, the oak, and the funky and the medicinal elements.
  This blend of roughly equal parts of each must be the funnest and cheapest sipping rum you can find.

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  4/16/2016 - SAND Likes this wine: 89 Points

  (Contrary to (most) other age statement rums all the rum in this bottle is at least 12 years old, making it one of the older, generally available rums)
  
  Appearance: Dark tea colour with golden, yellow and slight orange notes.
  Nose: Cedar wood, baked apple, marzipan, molasses, honey.
  Taste: Quite rich, strong, initially dry (for a rum, at least), alcohol. Then it releases some sweetness in the middle part, followed by a long, spicy finish with molasses, lots of black pepper and hints of chilli.
  It's drier and spicier in the mouth than the nose indicates.
  A nice and serious rum, which I can like.

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