Nobilis Diamond No. 39 SWR 1997 26yr 51,3%

RX16843 Very good Column Still Rum Single Cask 224 bottles 250€+

“Rich vanilla notes, complex yet slightly underwhelming.”

The No. 39 SWR Rum by Nobilis Rum offers an intriguing blend of rich and intense flavors, marked by its long aging process of 26 years. Created at Guyana's renowned Diamond Distillery, this limited edition rum embodies the unique character of Skeldon-style rums. Its aromatic profile features layers of vanilla, woody notes, coffee, milk chocolate, and dried fruits, giving it a sophisticated and inviting nose. The taste is complex and warm, dominated by wood, coffee, and chocolate with a roasted finish. With just 224 bottles available, this cask strength rum at 51.3% ABV delivers a well-rounded experience, though some may find it slightly lacking in complexity compared to its nose.

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Highlights

Rich aromatic profile
Well-balanced flavor
Limited edition rarity

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How does this rum taste?

No. 39 SWR Rum offers rich vanilla and woody notes, followed by coffee and chocolate flavors. Highly praised for its aroma, but complexity may be mildly underwhelming.

Most frequently mentioned flavors

Aroma

Vanilla Woody Dried fruit Coffee Milk chocolate Cappuccino

Taste

Woody Coffee Vanilla Dark chocolate Roasted Burnt sugar

Finish

Woody Herbal Mocha Oak Dark chocolate Coffee

Community reviews

8.7/1038 ratings

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Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰

11 February 2024

9.0/10

“10.02.2024 tasting event at the Nobilis Warehouse, Haderslev. Retasting and I really love the overall profile. ----------------------- #4232 03.09.2023 this was a nice blind tasting where I saw the black Glencairn tasting glasses for the first time. This is a great release. Intense yet extremely well balanced once rested. ABV and wood are amazingly well integrated. Medium fruity with nice spices and a warm oily palate. Draws really nice and slow moving curtains in the glass. The empty glass has light mint and caramel.”

Aroma

Woody Vanilla Roasted Citrus Intense

Taste

Woody Vanilla Warm Intense Balanced

Photo of the rum No. 39 SWR taken from user Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰

Galli33

2 July 2024

8.8/10

“Buuuh this is a really nice Rum 😌 Delicious, complex and heavy 😊 I definitely like the change from sweet milk chocolate in the nose to a more bitter dark chocolate on the palate. The intensive coffee/mocha notes gives is a heavy and creamy taste. The finish is quite long but more on the bitter, herb side.👌🏻”

Aroma

Vanilla Milk chocolate Roasted Glue Coffee

Taste

Vanilla Dark chocolate Anise Woody Coffee

Photo of the rum No. 39 SWR taken from user Galli33

cigares

11 August 2024

8.7/10

“A beautiful nose, with vegetal and spicy notes, cedar wood (cigar box) and roasted meat. The palate is a little acqueous (reduction?) at first, but the aromas of wood, molasses and toast soon take possession of the palate with great assurance and an interesting bitterness. The finish lingers on bitterness and wood, leaving the other aromas a little to the fore. A very fine Skeldon, surely excellent on its own, but which suffers from direct comparison with other representatives of this prestigious mark.”

Aroma

Cedar wood Vegetal Roasted

Taste

Roasted Woody

Photo of the rum No. 39 SWR taken from user cigares

Johannes

4 November 2023

8.8/10

“The nose I find really good! The palate is nice and round, but I lack a little complexity. Finish is medium long.”

Photo of the rum No. 39 SWR taken from user Johannes

TheJackDrop

13 August 2024

9.0/10

“Wow! A killer. After the marathon for everyone at the Olympic Games, I wanted a drink that would make an impact without being too strong. We're there, coffee, spices, dark chocolate caramel, ultra well-integrated alcohol. Warm and oily, perfect for a good old-fashioned wake-up call :)”

Aroma

Coffee Baking spices Roasted Brown Caramelized

Taste

Coffee Burnt sugar Dark chocolate Caramel Roasted

Photo of the rum No. 39 SWR taken from user TheJackDrop

Thunderbird

23 June 2024

8.7/10

“A Skeldon of the heavy, powerful kind. Woody, spicy, mocha-like aromas and dark chocolate predominate. But the whole thing is so well balanced that it is neither tiring nor bitter. A cross-comparison with the S.B.S is still to come. I like this Nobilis bottling very much”

Aroma

Vanilla Milk chocolate Brown Coconut

Taste

Woody Vanilla Dark chocolate Leather Burnt sugar

Photo of the rum No. 39 SWR taken from user Thunderbird

Mike H.

18 March 2024

8.5/10

“85 points. I had slightly higher expectations for this rum and have a preference for the SBS Skeldon releases. The nose is pretty promising with vanilla, coffee, dried fruit and milk chocolate standing out. On the palate there’s an addition of burnt sugar but the rum misses a certain complexity. Still a very good rum though.”

Aroma

Vanilla Coffee Dried fruit Milk chocolate Woody

Taste

Woody Vanilla Coffee Dried fruit Burnt sugar

Photo of the rum No. 39 SWR taken from user Mike H.

Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓

1 September 2023

9.1/10

“Hallelujah! How can you still dig up such a horny barrel today!? Fabulous stuff from the last century. I find the odd medicinal note in the finish interesting. If I only imagine, the rum would be the complete time tropically matured and not just 2 years ... So for me clear drinking recommendation.”

Photo of the rum No. 39 SWR taken from user Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓

DomM

9 November 2023

8.9/10

“Nice bottling. Palate lacks a bit of power and depth. Still a very well rounded sipper sporting dark notes and dried fruits. Well balanced with very noticeable wood influence without being overaged or bitter in any way.”

Aroma

Woody Glue Dried fruit Baking spices Roasted

Taste

Woody Leather Dark chocolate Cherry Mocha

TheRhumhoe

6 July 2024

8.8/10

“Nobilis s’essaye à l’exercice du Diamond dans le style de Skeldon. Le nez offre une jolie douceur lourde avec un boisé rôti, du chocolat au lait, du café (style cappuccino gourmand) mais aussi des notes brunes de sucre brûlé (voir de cola), des noix, des fruits secs (pruneau, raisin) des épices (cannelle, poivre, vanille, réglisse légère), du cuir et de la colle. C’est à la fois riche, sombre et aguichant à souhait. La bouche est légèrement en deçà des attentes. L’attaque est très douce et riche, plutôt souple mais manque de profondeur et de complexité. Les notes sombres dominent les débats sans laisser de place au doute (boisé, notes rôties, cuir, épices, réglisse, chocolat noir, café cappuccino, sucre brûlé, noix, fruits secs). On retrouve tout de même cette élégance et cette douceur à la Demerara qui en font un rhum extrêmement gouleyant, avec un alcool très bien intégré. La finale n’est pas des plus longues. Elle est plus amère, concentrée sur les arômes de chêne, de café torréfié, de chocolat noir, d’épices et de sucre brûlé. On relève quelques fruits secs et des notes légèrement herbacées. Si ce Skeldon n’est pas le plus transcendant qui soit, il reste un excellent rhum à boire, un peu cher mais très plaisant.”

Aroma

Woody Roasted Dark Burnt Leather

Taste

Woody Leather Roasted Dark Spice

Photo of the rum No. 39 SWR taken from user TheRhumhoe

Lukas Jäger

10 September 2023

8.9/10

“What a horny nose! Glue, chocolate, coconut and banana, here the full clavitur is played! Great complexity, as one is accustomed to from good Demeraras. On the palate, unfortunately, a bit weaker, less complex and quite woody. The alcohol to this surprisingly present, overall much weaker than the nose, dienlich could enjoy for hours. All in all, however, a good bottling of a anyway very tasty mark!”

Aroma

Vanilla Glue Coconut Banana Milk chocolate

Taste

Woody Orange Smoky Brown Barrel

Joachim Guger

24 October 2023

8.8/10

“On the nose solvent, mocha, dark chocolate and abundant blackened banana peel. In the mouth it stings once briefly (but pleasantly) and then it continues with abundant chocolate (100%) and coffee grounds. Dry, warm. Very long finish. A very nice, very drinkable Demerara. I have not had a better continental aged one yet. From the flavor profile, it squints to the mature (and very expensive) grandes from the 60s and 70s, but I have not had too many of them.😀😀 Very good!😁”

Aroma

Dark chocolate Coffee Caramelized Banana Solvents

Taste

Dark chocolate Coffee Banana Oak Caramelized

Photo of the rum No. 39 SWR taken from user Joachim Guger

Jakob

29 December 2023

8.6/10

“Shows plenty of sweetness from chocolate, caramel and vanilla sugar. The maturation brings a pleasant heaviness to the profile, with wood, coffee, orange peel and dark spices adding aromatic variety. Despite the wide range of aromas, I find the overall complexity a little lacking, with a somewhat dominant tendency towards a heavy café au lait sweetness. But it remains a very good rum that is a pleasure to drink.”

Aroma

Vanilla Milk chocolate Cappuccino Dried fruit Brown

Taste

Vanilla Roasted Brown Dried fruit Orange

Master P

17 May 2024

8.7/10

“Warm and with lots of spices in the mouth. Also brown sugar, I'm really craving pancakes now. A certain fruitiness to it. The alcohol is well integrated. Warm medium to long finish with a hint of coffee. Thank you Gunnar for the Skeldon samples 👌”

Aroma

Milk chocolate Dried fruit Woody Coconut Caramelized

Taste

Woody Coffee Dark chocolate Burnt sugar

Photo of the rum No. 39 SWR taken from user Master P

Palo - V Poháriku

28 August 2024

8.8/10

“I had couple of drams from this bottle and I must say I like this rum quite a lot. It's not that punchy, not overwhelming, but sometimes that's what I need - a complex, delicate and flavourful rum, that is at the same time very easy to drink. Suitable even as a "background" for conversation with good friends. Flavour profile as I got it: Roasted coffee beans, coca, wood, sweet caramel topping, dark dried fruits. Lovely! Ps: needs some time to fully open up in the glass.”

Aroma

Coffee Woody Spice Maggi Citrus

Taste

Sweet Burnt sugar Caramel Pineapple Mango

Photo of the rum No. 39 SWR taken from user Palo - V Poháriku

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What are the key facts about this rum?

Country
Guyana

Distillery
Diamond

Bottler
Nobilis Rum

RumX ID
RX16843

ABV
51,3%

Category
Column Still Rum

Vintage
1997

Bottled
2023

Mark
SWR

Made from
Molasses

Distillation
Column Still

Age
26 years

No. of bottles
224

Bottle volume
70cl

Price range
250€+

Type of spirit
Rum

What is the price trend for this rum?

339 €

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