Duquesne Rhum Blanc

The aroma is your basic sugary agricole. I find it has a bit less fruitiness than the other agricoles I've tried; instead it has more grass, and something almost chemical. The smell is more rounded and "blurred" as opposed to the sharper tang I pick up in JM. The flavor is also quite grassy. There's that chemical element again, or maybe it's sort of "non-food" vegetal, like biting into the stem of a plant or something. Again I don't get a lot of fruit in the taste, although there's a bit of lemon and/or lime. The alcohol burn is fairly strong. The finish is more of the same: grass, green vegetable matter, and sugar, with an alocohol wallop. I think this is my least favorite of the agricoles I've tried, though that doesn't mean it's bad by any means, as they're all fairly close. It delivers on the sugarcane sensory experience, with that nice sugary aroma and refreshing cane flavor, but I find it a bit less complex than JM, La Favorite, or Clement. It's lacking the more interesting fruity notes I get from those and just feels a little clunkier somehow. Despite the somewhat blase tone of this review, though, this is still a good rum and solid in a ti punch. It's also by a fair margin the cheapest agricole I've seen, at $28 for a liter bottle. I probably won't buy this again right away as there are other agricoles I want to try (or try again), but I could see picking up a bottle in the future for affordable ti punch fodder.