Cartavio '1929' Solera 12 Year Old

Not to be confused with the similarly named distillery in Venezuela, Destillerias Unidas S.A. de Peru (or DUSA de Peru) traces its origins back to 1792 when Domingo Cartavio procured land in the Chicama Valley, near the Pacific coast. He continued the centuries old tradition of sugar cultivation on the estate, and when its owners in 1929, W.B. Grace eventually built a distillery there, they named it Cartavio in his honour. The subsequent decades were turbulent, not least in the late 1960s when the Peruvian government took control of the sugar industry. A wave of privatisation in the early 1990s saw the establishment of Cartavio SA in 1994, who took over operations there. Its subsequent iteration, DUSA de Peru set about an intensive modernisation of the run-down plant, introducing a multiple vacuum column stills to add to the John Dore pot still installed there in 1953. Both still types are used in the production of its rum, the flagship brand of which is still Ron Cartavio.

This is a 12 year old solera aged rum for the Cartavio 1929 range.