Bellevue 1998 20 Year Old

This is from a large batch of molasses rum distilled at Bellevue-Hurel (where Damoiseau is made) in 1998. It was acquired by The Main Rum Company in Liverpool who, with Damoiseau as protected brand name, re-casked it and labelled it as Bellevue after the estate upon which the distillery sits. These are not to be mistaken for the distillery of the same name on the neighbouring island of Marie-Galante. The first of these 1998 vintage casks appeared on the independent scene in 2012, with a proliferation across various brands in the years following. They have been labelled as Bellevue, Grande-Terre, and on a couple of occasions mistakenly identified as South Pacific (a distillery in Fiji).

As it turns out, this rum was mistaken by the bottler as being from the Marie-Galante distillery. The name of the island has since been edited out of images for the bottle on their website and it has been correctly listed as a traditional rum rather than an agricole.