Pere Labat 8 Year Old
Pere Labat 8 Year Old
Winning Bid: £75
Currency Estimate
Lot:
Distillery:
Poisson
Age:
8 Year Old
Vintage:
N/A
Region:
Marie Galante, Guadeloupe
Bottler:
Official
Cask Type:
N/A
Bottled Strength:
42%
Bottle Size:
70cl
Distillery Status:
Operational
Production method:
column still
Base:
pure sugar cane juice
product Details
Pere Labat 8 Year Old
The origins of the Poisson distillery trace back to 1863 when Catherine Poisson decided to open a sugar factory on the estate which she had purchased a few years prior. The profitability of sugar dwindled towards the end of the century though, and the estate was sold to Edoard Rameaux, who promptly acquired a Creole column still and built the Poisson distillery. He named his rum after Jean-Baptiste Labat, a 17th century French clergyman known as Pere Labat, well-remembered on Guadeloupe for introducing pioneering methods in sugar production. Poisson is the smallest of the producers on the Marie Galante island of the Guadeloupe archipelago, producing agricole rum on its over 100 year old copper column still in small and increasingly sought after batches.
This is a rare distillery bottling aged 8 years.
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Please note: Due to the various ages of bottles and their seals, condition of liquid is at the buyer's discretion and no claim can be lodged against failure/leakage in transit.
