{"id":112731,"date":"2025-12-03T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T08:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/?p=112731"},"modified":"2026-02-04T11:47:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T10:47:03","slug":"mhoba-american-oak-a-wild-rum-from-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/mhoba-american-oak-a-wild-rum-from-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mhoba American Oak, a wild rum from South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cPerfectly crunchy sugar cane, lots of vanilla and pastry notes\u2014get ready for a complete change of scenery with American Oak Aged, the funkiest rum I’ve tasted recently!\u201d says Nicolas Julh\u00e8s, founder of the Distillerie de Paris.<\/p>\n

\"Mhoba\"<\/p>\n

Faced with such a statement, tasting was a must. This is a little gem, supple, easy to drink and complex at the same time. \u201cRobert Greaves has done his thing! Its extreme fermentation, wild aging, and Jamaican-style profile transport us to the heart of the South African savannah, around a braai, but with less brutality than its other Mhoba counterparts,\u201d he continues.<\/p>\n

How can we not agree with this unconventional enthusiast? The author of these lines is equally convinced. When asked about its production, Guillaume Haye, Mhoba rum ambassador in Europe, agrees: “All the Jamaican markers are there. This \u2018stave aged rum\u2019 has the distinction of being aged in demijohns. Let me explain. As it was too complicated to import bourbon barrels from the US, Robert Greaves\u2014the founder of the Mhoba distillery, editor’s note\u2014\u201creversed the problem\u201d by incorporating American oak staves from the Ozark Forest (Arkansas), cut to size, into demijohns.<\/p>\n

\"Mhoba<\/p>\n

Les planches ont \u00e9t\u00e9 toast\u00e9es sur place \u00e0 m\u00eame le braai. L\u2019alcool vient saturer le bois pendant un an avant de subir un finish de 3 mois en f\u00fbts de \u00abbain\u2019s single grain\u00ab . \u00bb Pour pimenter le tout, sachez qu\u2019avant tout cela, Robert Greaves avait d\u00e9marr\u00e9 par une s\u00e9rie de tests en 2012 \u00e0 partir d\u2019un alambic m\u00e9nager capable de \u00ab cracher \u00bb seulement 12 litres d\u2019alcool… Certains des whiskies Mhoba subissent une fermentation allant jusqu\u2019\u00e0 24 jours!!!! Mais \u00e7a, c\u2019est une autre histoire. Nous y reviendrons.<\/p>\n

American Oak Aged<\/strong>, rhum pur jus de canne (Afrique du Sud), 43 % vol. alc., 47 \u20ac la bouteille de 70 cl, MHOBA. En vente dans toutes les \u00e9piceries Julh\u00e8s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cPerfectly crunchy sugar cane, lots of vanilla and pastry notes\u2014get ready for a complete change of scenery with American Oak Aged, the funkiest rum I’ve tasted recently!\u201d says Nicolas Julh\u00e8s, founder of the Distillerie de Paris. Faced with such a statement, tasting was a must. This is a little gem, supple, easy to drink and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5482],"tags":[8213,3456],"class_list":["post-112731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-afrique-du-sud-en","tag-mhoba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}