Pure Cane Juice Rum, Grenada

Made with Lacalome Red and Yellow Lady sugar cane, this Renegade small batch was aged in three different types of cask (French oak: 17%, ex-bourbon: 60% and American new oak: 23%). With an angels’ share as high as 8%, over two years this version has acquired mind-blowing complexity and maturity of expression. Its deeply natural palette of flavours and aromas ingenuously recreates the youthful and changing character of its prime.

TASTING NOTES

Nose : Rich, heady. The floral (dandelion), honeyed, medicinal (ointment) and vanilla first nose is gradually filled with the exquisite fragrances of gum arabic. Allowed to breathe, fresh cane juice floods the aroma palette with its milky (coconut) and exotic (pineapple, kiwi) scents. Note of vetiver.

Appearance : Old gold

Palate : Lively, slender. The menthol attack is spicy (curry, cardamom, cinnamon), rooty (ginger) and syrupy (hot cane sugar). On the mid-palate, vanilla pod and squares of dark chocolate form a perfect pairing. A lovely rich bitterness.

Overall : Long, creamy. The start of the finish becomes deliciously tannic and fibrous (cane). The salty after-taste reveals compote (apple), saffron and autumnal (moss) dimensions. At the end of the finish, artichoke heart softens the flavour palette.