Montebello R1963 Blended 63°

Montebello R1963 Blended is an agricultural rum bearing the Guadeloupe GI label. This "blended" is a collaboration between two of Guadeloupe's leading houses: Montebello and Longueteau.

The first rum is a crude column distilled from red cane from plot no. 1 of Longueteau. The second is a Montebello amber rum, also made from red cane, which was aged for 2 short years, then was assembled raw from the barrel.

These two rums were harmonized through a 6-month brewing and reduction process. The result is a powerful, gourmet concentrate, a pure Guadeloupe product.

Nico's tasting notes

The nose opens with ripe cane juice, with a patina of soft white wood. One imagines raw cane sugar lightly cooked in syrup, just melted, still carrying its mellow aromas. Some fruit aromas also hover over the rum. On the fly, a few pears and a ripe melon stand out.

With aeration, we return to a white rum devoid of all artifice. This rum of pure cane juice seems very round, very smooth, and tastes like ti'punch, developing light lime aromas.

The palate is that of a full-bodied, generous rhum agricole, which behaves like a ti'punch thanks to its round texture and fine notes of lime zest. The cane is rather fresh, not too ripe, well-balanced in fact, and displays a few licorice flavors.

The finish is a little greener and more herbaceous, with a hint of mint.

"A very ripe, weathered cane on the nose, which gives way to a lovely ti'punch on the palate..."