Stéphane L'Éveillé grew up in Mauritius. A long-time rum enthusiast. In designing this rum, Stéphane wanted to draw the best from the Saint Aubin distillery, with which he has worked for many years.
For this aged version of Rivière des Créoles, the rum was distilled exclusively in a pot still. It was then aged for 6 years at the Saint Aubin distillery in the tropics, in an ex-cognac cask transferred to an ex-bourbon cask.
Only 366 bottles of this rum were bottled.
Stéphane's tasting notes
On the nose, this single cask offers a fine balance of roasted notes and exotic fruits. The copper of the still is present behind slightly smoky spice notes and toasted wood.
This rum is elegant and complex on the palate. The balance of alembic distillation is always de rigueur. Woody notes predominate, but are always enveloped in a bosky bower of exotic fruit. A slight hint of coppery body coats the cane juice, which is always present on the palate.
The finish is soft and greedy.
"A complex, well-balanced rum..."
Nico's tasting notes
On the nose , we discover a white woodiness covered in honey, like nougat covered with an elegantly delicious patina. The ripe cane juice still dominates, ample, thick and rich, but it is caught in this sort of perfectly balanced butter caramel.
Aeration opens the way to the spices, sweet and pastry, which are caught in the butterscotch before it even changes into a generous cream. The woodiness is completely melted, just like the cane which lets itself drift aboard a very fatty vanilla pod.
In the mouth , it's a ray of sunshine that takes over the palate and splashes spices in all directions. The white and melted woodiness also shines, its flesh is full of very white and fatty nuts, like almonds or macadamia nuts. We also think of coconut, milk chocolate, then we smell a hint of nutmeg and lime zest which brings us a nice coconut sorbet.
The finish leaves a little room for ripe cane, which also catches some lime zest along the way.
“An immense delicacy for this pure juice rum which sometimes draws towards what can be found in Barbados…”
