Three HSEs at different ages from the same cane variety, from the same piece of land and the same vintage today. More precisely, we are talking about the year 2016, canne d’Or and the so called “parcellaire #1”, and even more precisely, the plots “Verger” and “Coulon”. HSE Parcellaire #1 Cannde d’Or 2016 (55%): A…
Tag: Martinique
J.Bally 2007
I remember that I wasn’t a huge Bally fan when I started my Rum journey and that didn’t really change until the brand started releasing the first couple of full proof Rums, most notably the 1998 and 1999 vintages. Those two absolutely blew me away, as did the 2000 by Corman Collins andnthe more recent…
Braud & Quennesson
Braud & Quennesson is a new brand from Martinique that is currently produced at Le Simon, the distillery that is responsible for, among others, Clément, HSE and the early A1710. While Braud & Quennesson are looking to distill themselves, their operations permit demands the usage of hydrogen or electricity for heating. The problem is that…
Trois Rivières
Trois Rivières really isn’t a brand that spoils us with a wide array of different Rhums, most notably because they don’t really seem to release a lot of vintage bottlings anymore. Nevertheless, we still have a few samples left in our library – which will be void of any Trois Rivières after today. Trois Rivières…
Clément Canne Bleue 2001
Typically we’d go ahead and cross-taste the different Canne Bleue vintages by Clément but today we have something way more interesting: We get to compare an unaged Canne Bleue, i.e. a Blanc, with an aged one from the same year. Clément Canne Bleue 2001 (50%): Nose: Not very grassy and not that vegetal either. I’d…
G. Hardy (Tartane)
Today we have G. Hardy, from Plantation Tartane. The distillery on the half-island Caravelle was active until 1994. Today, their Rhum is produced at Saint James. While these are somewhat older bottlings, I have no clue whether they still come from the original distillery or not. I suspect that the first three bottlings date back…
Clément
A few Cléments are on the agenda: Two aged Canne Bleues, a bottling at 60% and a Vieux from the 1990s. Clément Canne Bleue 20ème Anniversaire Vieux (42%): A few of those Canne Bleues by Clément have been some of the better Blancs in the world of agricole and we are very curious to see…
Saint James it is
We are in the mood for Saint James, especially since we just managed to get samples of two very promising (and hyped bottlings). We did also find some much older stuff in the library but shall reserve this for some other time. Put differently, we will stay in the current century, but as we shall…
J.Bally 2006
We only have a smaller tasting session today but I think it should be a rather nice one as we have a slightly younger, reduced J.Bally from 2006 and the older full proof version today. J.Bally 2006 12YO (43%): Nose: Very intense and you wouldn’t think that we are dealing with only 43% here! I…
Looking to find new Favorites
Probably not the best headline we could have come up with. What’s even worse though is that our sample library ran out of La Favorites. Oh mon dieu! La Favorite Cour de Rhum (40%): I believe that this is more or less four years old. Nose: Sufficiently intense at 40%. We get a mix of…
J.M
We are preparing for a massive vintage J.M tasting like we’ve done it with J.Bally, so let’s take this as a warming-up session. Since the tasting was planned for more than a year ago and didn’t happen so far, we really don’t know when we will have it though. J.M VO (43%): We shouldn’t forget…
Le Simon
Le Simon is the distillery that’s producing both, Clément and HSE and it is one of the few Martinican distilleries of which we’ve got independet bottlings. Not many, but there were a handful, some of which we will have today. Now we do not know if these Rums were intended for Clément or HSE, or…
Single Cask Rum 