Clément Canne Bleue vintage 2022 is, like previous vintages, a single-varietal AOC Martinique agricultural rum. This cuvée is eagerly awaited by fans every year.
For this 2022 vintage, the bottle design is colorful and disruptive in an electric, offbeat style. Two colors have been chosen: blue to represent freshness of taste, and yellow for citrus notes.
This rum was made from pure cane juice in the copper Creole column at the Simon distillery. It was then reduced and brewed very slowly for 6 months before bottling.
Enjoy it any way you like, as ti-punch or in a cocktail!
Nico's tasting notes
The nose opens with a rather candied profile, with a cane swollen with fragrant, sweet citrus fruit. A certain tenderness and mellowness then emerge, soon contrasted with a drier, peppery cane fiber.
With aeration, a veil of pepper settles over the glass. It's rather gray, with a few greener nuances, and becomes sweeter and sweeter as the cane juice resurfaces.
On the palate, the cane juice is clear, lively and clean. Its brightness is not overpowered by fruit or spice, so it doesn't stray from its path. We follow the cane's fiber up its stalk. You start from its sweet base and work your way upwards, where the wind blows and the sun shines.
The finish is fairly light, with a hint of salt water in the finish.
"After a fruity, sweet opening, we gradually return to the essence of a clean cane juice..."
A comparison with the Clément Canne Bleue 2021 vintage reveals the same impression of clarity from the very first nose, although the 2022 takes a short detour into citrus and roundness. As the rum is aired, the 2021 becomes rounder and fruitier, while the 2022 is straighter and spicier. You could say that the two vintages are similar, even if they don't unfold in the same way.
On the palate, the 2021 is a little rounder on the attack, then more alcoholic. The 2022 shows more unity and immediately achieves its objective, but the two vintages once again come together in this spirit of limpidity. The finish is relatively light on both vintages. The 2021 is a little more vegetal, while the 2022 has a few iodized touches.
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