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Closed
15 Feb 2021
Bottle Details
Enmore and Port Mourant EHPM 1998 Velier 16 Year Old Blended in the Barrel
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.
Velier's earliest Demerara releases were bottled in 1996, laying the groundwork for what would later become affectionately known as the \"Age of Velier's Demerara.\" This began in earnest in 2004, after Gargano was invited to the Demerara Distillers Ltd warehouses in Guyana to select tropically aged barrels to be bottled by Velier for the first time. The \"age\" only lasted until 2014, but has an enduring legacy of having indelibly raised the profile of the historic rum stills and marque's of Guyana, which have become some of the most sought after in the world, these Velier releases in particular.
This is one of a number of experimental Blended in the Barrel releases that were part of the final 2014 outturn. The reception to them encouraged DDL to distil and bottle these again, this time under their own El Dorado label in 2019.
This one is a blend of 3 experimental barrels. Aged 16 years in the tropics, they were distilled at Uitvlugt distillery in 1998 using the Enmore wooden coffey still and Port Mourant double wooden pot still.
The cask were sourced from Diamond distillery, who consolidated all of Guyana's rum stock and equipment in 2000. One of 848 bottles.
Distillery
Distillery status
Closed
Age
16 year old
Vintage
1998
Production Type
Single Blended Rum
Still
Wooden pot & column stills
Ageing
Tropical
Sweetened
No
Region
Guyana
Bottle count
848
Base
Molasses
Distillery
Uitvlugt
A sugar factory in Guyana that operated a rum distillery until 1999. Pronounced [eye-flut], it was located on the west bank of the Demerara river near the Dutch-established town of the same name. The distillery operated a number of historic stills, many of which are still in operation at Diamond.
Founded
1871
Production type
Pure Single Rum,
Traditional Rum
Company
Demerara Distillers Ltd
A rum company in Guyana, founded in 1983 through the merger of Guyana Distilleries Ltd and Diamond Liquors Ltd. Its flagship brand is the El Dorado label, which produces on a variety of still at Diamond. It also has subsidiary interests across the Caribbean and Europe.
Founded
1983
Company type
Distiller
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