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Appleton Estate 1999 Velier 21 Year Old / Hearts Collection

Lot: 6028402

Appleton Estate 1999 Velier 21 Year Old / Hearts Collection

Winning Bid: £252

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Appleton Estate
Age: 
21 year old
Vintage: 
1999
Region: 
Jamaica
Bottler: 
Velier
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
63%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
Production method: 
forsyths pot still
Base: 
molasses
product Details

Appleton Estate 1999 Velier 21 Year Old / Hearts Collection

The Appleton Estate is the oldest sugar plantation and distillery in Jamaica. Its sugar fields cover 11,000 acres of the Nassau Valley, located in the Saint Elizabeth parish, and it has been in operation since 1749. The distillery was bought by J. Wray & Nephew in 1916, which as of 2012 became a subsidiary of global drinks giant, Gruppo Campari. It operates five double-retort pot stills alongside a column still, and generally produces single blended rums by vatting the two distillates. In 1997, Appleton Estate became the first distillery in the entire spirits industry to employ a female master blender, Joy Spence.

A fantastically well aged Jamaica Rum produced by Appleton Estate and bottled in collaboration with Italian distributors, Velier.

A 100% pot still rum, this was distilled in 1999 and bottled 21 tropical years later from casks #407819 through #407830.

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.

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