Clément Canne Bleue 2019 is a white rum with 3 notable features, in addition to its beautiful bottle.
First and foremost, this is a "mono-varietal" rum, meaning that it comes from a single variety of sugar cane: blue cane. It comes from Barbados and delivers a particularly high sugar content.
Second characteristic: this is a rum made exclusively from the 2019 harvest. A new bottle is created for each harvest.
Third feature: it is a slow reduction to obtain 50° and perfect amplitude. 6 months of stirring and aeration are in fact necessary before bottling Clément Canne Bleue.
Distillation takes place in a copper Creole column.
Nico's tasting notes
The nose opens with a rather clean agricultural rum, a tad metallic, and above all floral. It has a relatively light character, with some tangy citrus, lychee and rosewater. The lemon becomes increasingly present with time.
Aeration helps the rum gain thickness and mellowness. The result is a softer, vegetal flavor, with sweet, tender cane. An almost brioche-like character emerges, lightly peppered and adorned with candied bagasse.
The palate is lively and spicy. The rum is lively and authentic, with typical notes of fresh cane fermentation. Pepper and bagasse give it an upright, dry edge that drives the tasting from start to finish. Then comes its light character, with a few spices tingling the taste buds and tingling the tongue.
The finish is tasty, with pepper and a dry edge.
"A fairly light rum, whose dry, peppery notes will swim perfectly in ti'punch..."
By comparison, the 2018 Clément canne bleue is also quite light, but more intense, darker. Both distillation years share citrus and floral aromas. Aeration tempers its ardor a little, and we discover a lovely melted pepper.
On the palate, this 2018 is also lively, but its aromas are more vegetal and tender. There's more room for cane and citrus. Spices then warm the mood, and the two years come together on the finish.
