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Bottle Details
Clarendon MMW 1984 Plantation 36 Year Old Extreme No.4 / LMDW
Launched in 2003, Plantation Rum is a brand owned by the well-established cognac producer, Cognac Ferrand. Established in 1989, Maison Ferrand has used its extensive contacts in the spirits industry to source some exceptional casks of rum. The company also has privileged access to those in the warehouses of Clarendon and Long Pond in Jamaica, through its acquisition of the West India Rum Distillery (WIRD) and the shares in National Rums of Jamaica that came with it. Its ownership of the Bajan WIRD distillery has seen it increasingly involved in rum production as well as bottling in recent years. In June 2020 it was announced that Plantation Rum would be changing its name to support the global dialogue around racial equality, with the company accepting the hurtful connotations that the word “plantation” can evoke.
Exclusive to La Maison du Whisky, this is a 36 year old, the fourth part of the dosage-free Extreme series from Plantation. Distilled in 1984 on the pot stills at the Clarendon distillery. This has spent 35 years in a bourbon cask in the tropics, and a further 1 ageing in Ferrand casks in France.
Clarendon distillery is one of the Caribbean’s newer rum factories, built back in 1949. Back then, it was a small operation, running a single pot still produced by legendary Louisville, Kentucky coppersmiths, Vendome. Today it is joined by a second, larger pot still of Indian manufacture, a modern five-column still, both installed in 2009. Operating between January and October each year, the distillery produces around 12 million litres of alcohol each year. Clarendon is technically two distilling operations in one. National Rums of Jamaica has a 73% share, with the remaining 23% owned by their biggest customer, Diageo, who end up taking 90% of Clarendon’s total output for their Captain Morgan and Myers’s brands.
Clarendon
A Jamaica distillery that is majority owned by National Rums of Jamaica. The remaining shares are owned by its largest customer, Diageo, who use its spirit for their Captain Morgan label. The distillery's proprietary brand is called Monymusk.
Planteray
The flagship rum brand of the French company, Maison Ferrand. It was launched as Plantation in 1999 and was originally an independent label produced using casks from across the world. As of 2017, Maison Ferrand has owned the West Indies Rum Distillery which now provides rum for its core expressions.
Maison Ferrand
The trading name of Cognac Ferrand SASU, a cognac producer housed in the 18th century Château de Bonbonnet in Ars, France. The company imports and ages casks of rum from all over the world, generally finishing them in an array of different wood types before bottling as its Planteray rum brand.
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