Neisson Rhum Reserve Speciale

Réserve Spéciale is Neisson's aged flagship, a blend of rhums built from stock reportedly aged up to ten years in a mix of French and American oak, including used bourbon and whiskey barrels, all distilled and matured on the Thieubert-Carbet estate. It's also one of the more divisive bottles Neisson makes — multiple independent reviewers specifically describe it as polarizing, closer in character to a peated or sherried whisky than a typical aged rum. Expect a complex nose of leather, tobacco, fennel, black pepper, and orange marmalade, with sautéed almonds and a hint of oloroso sherry running underneath. On the palate, tobacco and leather lead, joined by licorice, allspice, and grassy phenolic notes that some tasters compare directly to Scotch whisky, before a finish that leans into saddle leather, dusky bitterness, and lingering char. Sweeter counterpoints of orange jam, green grape, and black cherry show up between sips for those who stick with it. Bottled at 42% ABV. This isn't the rhum to hand someone new to agricole — it rewards drinkers who already like intensity and want something genuinely different, sipped neat or in an aged rum Old Fashioned.

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