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St Lucia 2010 Velier 7 Year Old / Warren Khong 70th Anniversary​

Lot: 6027905

St Lucia 2010 Velier 7 Year Old / Warren Khong 70th Anniversary​

Winning Bid: £500
(Reserve has been met) This lot currently has: 19 bids

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Lot:
Distillery: 
St Lucia Distillers
Age: 
7 year old
Vintage: 
2010
Region: 
St Lucia
Bottler: 
Velier
Cask Type: 
ex-bourbon
Bottled Strength: 
58.6%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
Production method: 
john dore pot still
Base: 
molasses
product Details

St Lucia 2010 Velier 7 Year Old / Warren Khong 70th Anniversary​

Velier was founded by Casimir Chaix in Genoa in 1947 as a wine and spirits importer and distributor. By the 1980s they were still a small family-company with less than ten staff. This all changed in 1986 when it was purchased by Luca Gargano, a former brand ambassador for Saint James who was at the time still in his twenties. Under his direction, they selected their first single cask whiskies in 1992, and their first rum in 1996. In the decades that followed, Velier have gone on to become one of the most collectible brands in the industry, and Gargano has positioned them as the one of the foremost authorities and bottlers of rum anywhere in the world.

This is one of many fantastic and unique rums released by the company to celebrate their 70th anniversary.  Single ex-Bourbon cask #734-0908 JD2 was filled in 2010 and spent 7 years ageing in the tropics before bottling in 2017.

St Lucia Distillers was formed in 1972 through the amalgamation of Barnard family owned Dennery distillery, with the operations of the Geest family at Roseau Bay. The deal saw the former site closed down, with operations consolidated at the latter. The Barnards bought their partners out of their share in 1993, before the operation was bought out by what would become CL Financial in 2005, the parent company of Angostura. A brief affair, CL Financial divested their rum portfolio following the 2008 financial crisis, and in 2009 St Luca Distillers were acquired by Martinique-based Spiribam, owners of the Rhum Clemént and Rhum J.M brands. The company has four stills; two John Dore pot stills installed in 1998 and 2005, a hybrid Vendome pot still (with eight plate column neck) brought in from Trinidad Distillers in 2003, and the original two-column McMillan coffey still from 1985. John Dore 1 and the Vendome still are the smaller of the group, and are used to produce pure cane juice rums in addition to the molasses based spirit distilled on all four.

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