Bellevue That Boutique-y Rum Company 19 Year Old Batch 1 - 2nd Label

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).

This release also fell foul of the Bellevue confusion, and the label erroneously depicts the windmill at the Marie-Galante distillery. The release was promptly re-labelled with a new picture, this time of the Bellevue-Hurel distillery (with its windmill in comparative disrepair) and a cartoon of the company's Peter Holland looking bemused by a Guadeloupe roadmap, but some like this were sold before they could be amended. Something of a rarity!