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Guadeloupe Rum 1998 Plantation Single Cask #15 / Cognac Finish

Lot: 5629

Guadeloupe Rum 1998 Plantation Single Cask #15 / Cognac Finish

Winning Bid: £150

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Damoiseau
Age: 
N/A
Vintage: 
1998
Region: 
Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe
Bottler: 
Plantation
Cask Type: 
ex-cognac
Bottled Strength: 
42%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
Production method: 
column still
Base: 
Guadeloupe molasses
product Details

Guadeloupe Rum 1998 Plantation Single Cask #15 / Cognac Finish

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 1998 vintage from Guadeloupe, bottled from cask #15 of a parcel of fifteen. It was finished in cognac cask.

As there are strict quotas on agricole rum production in Guadeloupe, very little rum is spared for the independent bottling scene, and the casks that are usually distilled from molasses instead. This is from a large batch of molasses rum distilled at Damoiseau 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, which to add to the confusion is also run by Herve Damoiseau's cousin. The first of these 1998 vintage Damoiseau appeared on the independent scene in 2013, 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).

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