Saint Aubin 1819 Gold Premium is a pure cane-juice rum distilled in the copper column of the estate's rum distillery. After some time in casks for ageing, it is reduced with estate spring water to bottling strength.
Nico's tasting notes
The nose opens on a fruity note, with yellow-fleshed fruits such as peaches and fresh apricots. A slight vegetal earthiness coats the whole, as if to recall the cane and its terroir. A few cherries later, the fruit swells and becomes more exotic.
Time leaves a small veil of vanilla on the surface. Like a slightly sweet film, it retains the freshness of the cane and fruit. It also gives them a lovely golden patina that establishes a pleasant, honeyed balance. The cane then finds itself well coated with all this, giving it a more mature air.
The palate is soft and fluid. After a slightly ethereal entry, the wood takes the dry, peppery cane sliding straight onto the palate. Then its juice begins to escape, releasing lime zest, followed by other rounder, sweeter fruits.
The finish pays homage to cane as a whole, with a herbaceous, lemony character.
"The cane comes and goes, sometimes giving way to fruit but always returning to the essential..."
