As its name suggests, Bielle Schooner 2011 has travelled!
After distillation in 2011, this premium agricultural rum was aged in oak barrels for 6 years. It was then sailed across the Atlantic. It was racked in 2017 and bottled brut de fût.
Nico's tasting note
On the nose, this rum shows a beautiful woody and mellow concentration, carried by a light solvent. The nuts are vibrant and sparkling in the first moments. Then one discovers, nestled in the heart of the rum, a large basket of ripe, sweet and even sticky fruit.
Aeration and rest reveal an extremely round and greedy rum. Its aromas compete in seduction, like a very fat vanilla, a woody taste that one imagines ready to chew, or a very sweet coconut milk.
The palate offers us a soft but present attack, and slowly rises in intensity. In short, mastery is the order of the day. The greedy and fatty nuts are the first to make themselves known. We see almond, macadamia nut and some pine nuts. Then it is the soft American oak that fully expresses itself, all marked by vanilla and coconut. The cane juice also becomes very greedy in contact with it, and the fruit turns into jam.
The finish is smooth, carrying a nice vanilla wood reduction and butterscotch.
"A well-coated brut de fût in greedy American oak..."
The tasting notes of the Cellar Master of the Bielle distillery
Nose: complexity of candied fruits, gingerbread and roasted almonds
Palate: notes of vanilla underlined by old wood giving way to the sweetness of honey
Finish: as the chapters go by, an unsettling flight of fragrant notes is revealed.
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