Bielle distilled this rhum agricole twice in 2009, first in a column and then in an iron still. Four barrels were bottled without reduction for this ninth cuvée of "la confrérie du rhum", the well-known facebook group for rum enthusiasts. Nico's tasting notes In brief: wood [...].
The role of sugar cane We cannot talk about the manufacture of rum without first talking about sugar cane. Originally cultivated for its sugar production, sugar cane is a plant 2.50 to 6 meters high and with a diameter of 1.5 to 6 cm. She […]
This wooden box contains 4 vintages selected, processed and - for the first 3 - bottled "brut de fût" (i.e. without reduction in alcohol content) by Guillaume Ferroni in Marseille: - The first comes from Trinidad & Tobago and has been aged in oak barrels, partly in a tropical climate [...].
This agricultural rum from the small Bielle distillery has been aged in bourbon barrels since 2001. It is a limited edition of just 348 bottles. Nico's tasting notes The nose is that of a very old rum, covered with leather, licorice and unparalleled concentration. Scorched oak peels away at the nose.
This agricultural rum from the small Bielle distillery was aged for 8 years in bourbon barrels, between 2008 and 2016. Nico's tasting note The first nose is powerful but not burning. On the contrary, it breathes a certain fruity freshness, just underlined by a hint of varnish. Then the basket [...]
This agricultural rum from the small Bielle distillery is aged in bourbon barrels. It is a brut de fût, bottled at its natural proof. Only 1,470 bottles were made from these barrels. This Bielle 2003 won a gold medal at the Concours Général Agricole de Paris in 2017. Tasting notes In [...]
This agricultural rum from the small Bielle distillery has been aged for 10 years in a single bourbon cask bearing the number 137. It is a brut de fût, bottled at its natural proof. Each bottle bears the barrel number, the number of bottles made from the barrel, and of course the [...].
Kill Devil Barbados 9 ans comes from the huge Foursquare distillery. Foursquare is huge in size, but also in the quality of the rums it produces. It was Scottish bottler Hunter Laing who unearthed this rum. This Kill Devil was distilled in June 2007. It was then aged in ex-bourbon casks for a period of [...].
This XO from the small Martinique distillery - small in size, not in the quality of its rums, quite the contrary - is in fact an 11-year-old. In fact, after distillation in the "house" Creole column, it was first placed in ex-cognac casks from March 2006 to October [...].
Pink Pigeon rum is produced in Mauritius within the Médine estate which includes a rum distillery and a sugar refinery, both separated by a few meters. The sugar refinery supplies the distillery with a molasses rich in sugar. Pink Pigeon is a rum flavored with vanilla, wild orchid petals […]