Clairin Vaval

Aromas of tropical fruit, banana, leaves. Flavors of banana peel, tomato, light molasses, wet leaves, and a long finish with pepper, garlic, hint of soy sauce. Compared to the Sajous I just had, it's a little lighter, less ethanol, and more interesting.

Has a taste that reminds me of the beach

Big tropical fruit. Curdled cream. Cut grass

Crystal clear. Boisterous aromas of tomato leaf, tomato paste, bell pepper, poblano, celery, carrot, musk, cilantro, white pepper, cement, saline, cherry tomato, brine, green olive, yellow onions. Fills the room with vegetable soup or sauce aromas dominated by tomato paste. On the palate the sweetness comes out with an abundance of sour cherry, strawberry, rhubarb, mustard, onion peel, and chocolate. The finish kind of lives in your mouth until you wash it away with something else. It doesn't dissipate naturally. It's beyond long, and more like permanent. There's banana, grass, fresh sugarcane juice, chili salted melon and dragonfruit. This didn't really taste like a rum product until the very end. I can only see this being exciting to nerds and adventurers. Fascinating to people looking for a transformative, terroir-driven spirit experience

It has a strong molasses smell with some salty smoked meat. It smells really strong and the scent wafts over the table. It has a substantially oily palate. There's some bit from the alcohol. The palate has a brown sugar or molasses flavor mixed with a huge amount of garlic. It's quite salty too. It kind of tastes like barbeque sauce with some vegetables, so maybe a vegetarian barbeque meal. It's interesting and complex and it avoids the usual failings, but the garlic flavor is just way too strong, even though it is enjoyably sauteed. I'm glad I tried this, but I wouldn't want to drink it again. It eventually has a bit of that usual light rum squash flavor, but it has a strong garlic presence with some barbeque sauce.