Transcontinental Rum Line Fiji South Pacific Distillers 57.18% 2009

Professionele reviews

Serge Valentin (88)

A vatting of four casks essentially matured in Europe, and a distillate that’s already rather impressed me in the past.

Colour: white wine.

Nose: burnt tyres, UHU glue, nail polish remover, rotting bananas, diesel oil, new rubber boots, acetone, kerosene… I like that! With water: more of all that, while it gets even brinier. Yes that was possible.

Mouth (neat): acrid and even aggressive, with more rotting oranges, honey vinegar, lemon and lime juices, gherkin brine, and that edible glue that we used to eat at school. We had one that was called ‘Cléopâtre’. And yes I like that. With water: pickled fruits, glue-y chutneys, more kerosene, and a growing saltiness. Forgot to mention olives, and green bananas.

Finish: very long, salty, smoky, petroly, tarry, varnishy.

Comments: it’s furiously Jamaican, this little Fijian rum! Love it – and it’ll make your guests laugh (and wonder if you didn’t go mad).