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Bottle Details
Neisson 2016 Velier 4 Year Old Chai Vevert
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 trio of ground-breaking Velier releases followed hot on the heels of the Appleton Estate Hearts Collection. That series was a first as it saw the inaugural independent bottling of 100% pot still rum from the esteemed Jamaican distillery, and this Chai Series is even more significant as the first independent bottling of Neisson. Jean Neisson's mother had apparently been strongly against the idea in the beginning, however was eventually won over by Gargano, and these were bottled in 2020.
Jean and Adrien Neisson acquired their land in Le Carbet in 1922, building the distillery nine years later. It remains part of the family to this day, saved by Jean’s daughter Claudine, who quit her job as a hospital physian to run it after his death. Her son Gregory is now its master distiller. He produces its well-regarded agricole rum on the distillery’s single-column Savalle still, constructed back in 1938.
Each one of the three rums was distilled on the same day and matured in the same type of ex-bourbon casks. However, three very different warehouse locations were chosen to measure the effect of different temperatures and humidities.
Chai Vevert (#2) was subject to 82% Humidity, and a 25.5°C average temperature.
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