Nose - apple juice, decaying grass, apricot, orange blossom, bile, vegetal and floral notes, mild ethanol burn. Taste - sour apple, acidic minerality, lemon pith, wet grass, apricot, mint, moderate alcohol bite, finishing short with sour apple, bitter citrus, and wet grass flavors. Another day, another regrettable rum purchase. Or in this case, rhum agricole. In my haste to stock a variety of rums to unlock various cocktails, I ended up with this loser. The nose has an unsweetened apple juice quality, along with some funky grass and fruit in the bouquet. The palate is quite surprising compared to the relatively demure nose. It’s strongly acidic, sour, vegetal, bitter, and minerally, almost metallic. Some of the fruits from the nose are present, but they’re overwhelmed by these other unpleasant flavors. I wonder if this tastes anything like biting into a mouthful of apple seeds? I bet it’s not far off. This is not good. Granted, it’s not intended to be a sipper. It would likely be more at home as a component in something like a Ti’ Punch, a classic rhum agricole cocktail I’ve yet to try. You live and learn, I suppose. Something like this will go firmly in my ‘try before I buy’ category moving forward.