This grogue natural is a pure white cane juice rum from Cape Verde. It comes precisely from Ribeira da Cruz, on the island of Santo Antão. The word grogue is to Cape Verde what cachaça is to Brazil, clairin to Haiti, and rhum agricole to the French West Indies and Madeira. It's a way of referring to rum that comes from a very specific terroir, and whose production methods are rooted in tradition. No fertilizers or pesticides are used...
Nico's tasting notes
The nose offers us a fleshy, candied cane, exhaling mentholated notes of freshly cut herbs. The pepper is mild yet concentrated and highly aromatic, its green bark evoking that of a cane with an almost resinous character.
Aeration leaves plenty of room for the cane, which swells with exotic, ripe fruit aromas, and displays its warm, greedy vegetal side. The more time passes, the more it radiates, the heavier and more tropical its profile becomes.
The palate is just what you'd expect, a concentrate of ripe sugar cane. It's like a lump of raw sugar melting in your mouth. Tender, it evokes sweet licorice, marron glacé, velvety aromatics and mild spices.
The finish is a little more vegetal and herbaceous, ending on a slightly more bitter note.
"A very mature grogue, in the sense that it shows a much more controlled character, less wild than its congeners..."
Sylvie and Marc MORIZOT
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