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Clarendon MMW 2003 Plantation 17 Year Old

Lot: 5583

Clarendon MMW 2003 Plantation 17 Year Old

Winning Bid: £130

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Clarendon
Age: 
17 year old
Vintage: 
2003
Region: 
Jamaica
Bottler: 
Plantation
Cask Type: 
see lot description
Bottled Strength: 
49.5%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
Production method: 
vendome pot still
Base: 
molasses
product Details

Clarendon MMW 1999 Plantation Single Cask / The Nectar

Launched in 2003, Plantation Rum is a brand owned by the well-established cognac producer, Cognac Ferrand. Established in 1989, Maison Ferrand has used its extensive contacts in the spirits industry to source some exceptional casks of rum. The company also has privileged access to those in the warehouses of Clarendon and Long Pond in Jamaica, through its acquisition of the West India Rum Distillery (WIRD) and the shares in National Rums of Jamaica that came with it. Its ownership of the Bajan WIRD distillery has seen it increasingly involved in rum production as well as bottling in recent years. In June 2020 it was announced that Plantation Rum would be changing its name to support the global dialogue around racial equality, with the company accepting the hurtful connotations that the word “plantation” can evoke.

This is a limited edition small batch bottling of MMW mark rum from Clarendon in Jamaica, bottled from just 27 casks.

Clarendon distillery is one of the Caribbean’s newer rum factories, built back in 1949. Back then, it was a small operation, running a single pot still produced by legendary Louisville, Kentucky coppersmiths, Vendome. Today it is joined by a second, larger pot still of Indian manufacture, a modern five-column still, both installed in 2009. Operating between January and October each year, the distillery produces around 12 million litres of alcohol each year. Clarendon is technically two distilling operations in one. National Rums of Jamaica has a 73% share, with the remaining 23% owned by their biggest customer, Diageo, who end up taking 90% of Clarendon’s total output for their Captain Morgan and Myers’s brands.

This was distilled on the vendome pot still in 2003 and tropically aged for 16 years in 200 litre bourbon casks. They were then shipped to France for further ageing in Ferrand casks and bottled dosage-free in 2020.

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