When we’ve had the first couple of aged Clairins, we’ve made a few observations. Firstly, the majority of the Caroni casks didn’t come through as we thought they would. We only found nuances of the “typical” Caroni notes in a few of the Clairins. Secondly, we didn’t think that these rums really benefitted from cask…
Category: Spirit of Haiti
Sajous
Isn’t it amazing that we now can do an entire session featuring only Sajous now!? Sajous 2019 (56,4%): It has been a while since we’ve had unaged Sajous, so let’s check if the current version holds up to the greatness of the previous batches. Nose: Slightly more earthy than I’ve had it in mind. Despite…
Clairin Sonson & Providence
Today we are having a new (unaged) Clairins on the agenda with Sonson. Its adversary is going to be the first Providence bottling, which is a bit older but one we have yet to present on here. Clairin Sonson 2018 (53,2%): Sonson is produced by Stephan Kalil Saoud in Cabaret, north of Port Au Prince…
