In March 2020, Benoit Bail and Jerry Gitani, founders of the Facebook group La confrérie du Rhum, paid a visit to Habitation Clément. They had the opportunity to taste one of the house's brut de fût agricultural rums. After some hesitation, cellar master Robert Perronet and Julien Thimon, his successor, agreed to this exclusive bottling for the Confrérie.
Aged 3 years and 9 months, this agricultural rum bearing the IG Antilles Françaises label has been bottled at 60.9% brut de fût, a first for Clément!
750 numbered bottles were produced, the result of blending 10 new, high-temperature barrels.
This cuvée went on sale on Saturday June 19, 2021, during the Rhum Society trade show.
Nico's tasting notes
On the nose, we discover a surprising and interesting concentration, which challenges some of the certainties we might have had about a rum of this age and style. The rum greets us with a touch of varnish, before revealing a woody, truffled bouquet of nuts and vanilla.
Aeration greatly lightens the rum's profile, and while the nuts still lead the way, they are now bright and welcoming. The oak is natural, both toasty and tannic, yet relaxed. The cane is proud, peppery, richly clothed in oak bark.
The palate is intensely gourmand, with a robust, generous woodiness that serves up a mouthful of milk chocolate mixed with sweet spices and fatty nuts. Almond, hazelnut and walnut all come together in a sticky, savory nougatine scented with vanilla and coconut.
The finish is sticky and flavorful, the cane juice garnished with preserved limes.
"A fine concentration of woody gourmandise for this agricultural rum that flirts with the style of Barbados..."
pascal
nothing to complain about
Yannick BOYER
Super rum and super fast shipping and especially very well protected!
I recommend it!
Kévin Prudent
An experience that's changing the way we think about aging