Bielle 2005 is a vintage distilled and aged on the island of Marie-Galante for 10 years. The barrels used for aging previously contained Bourbon. Tasting note While waiting for our own note, here are the markers which dominate, according to the importer: gourmand on the nose, with notes of candied fruit and […]
This Bielle 2001 Single Cask comes from barrel n°98, one of 12 barrels carefully chosen by the importer (La Maison du Whiskey). Located at an altitude of 110 meters on a plateau on the island near Guadeloupe, the distillery uses cane for this rum which comes from the estate belonging to the distillery […]
This agricultural rum from Marie-Galante was first aged on site in oak barrels before sailing towards Brittany using the force of the wind alone! In fact, TOWT only sells products transported in their own fleet of sailboats. The journey through old Bourbon barrels that contained old Cubaney rum […]
TOWT, for TransOceanic Wind Transport, is a French carrier that is a few nautical miles ahead of its time. Paradoxical you might say when we talk about transport under sail on old rigs. However, as sailors, the TOWT crew knows the metaphor well: humanity would be the crew of the Titanic heading straight […]
The name of this rum selected by Chantal Comte is a tribute to the Tour de l'Or, located in Seville on the banks of the Río Guadalquivir and depicted on the bottle label. It was in fact to Seville that the riches brought back from the New World by Christopher Columbus's ships arrived. The indications concerning this cuvée [...]
This rum imported and transformed by Guillaume Ferroni comes from the Santo Domingo De Villa Clara distillery. After a first maturation in Cuba in ex-Bourbon barrels, it undergoes a second aging for 3 years in Provence in first-fill ex-rye whiskey barrels (Roof Rye Whiskey). Nico’s tasting note Summary: […]
This rum is the fruit of a collaboration between Richard Seal, head of the Foursquare distillery, and Luca Gargano, head of the famous Italian bottler Velier. This time, it's a blend of 3 vintages: 2004, 2005 and 2006. The vintages that make up Foursquare Triptych were distilled, as are most of the rums produced by [...].
LROK is a term used to designate a level of ester, i.e. aromatic molecules (i.e. anything other than water or alcohol), of between 200 gr/laa and 400 gr/laa. For a Jamaican rum from Hampden, this is a "light" rum (precisely 375 gr/laa for this cuvée), even if this is not the case.
Produced in the Dominican Republic and presented in an attractive case, Barcelo Gran Añejo is the result of a meticulous blend of several rums aged for a minimum of three years in oak barrels that have previously contained bourbon. This well-balanced rum won a gold medal at the 2003 International Rum Festival. [...]
This old rum is a tribute to Victor Depaz, whose entire family was decimated by the eruption of Mount Pelée in 1902, and who rebuilt the distillery in 1917 which still produces the excellent Depaz agricultural rum today. This Victor vintage is a blend of rums aged between 3 and 4 years and […]