Domaine de Bel Air Carrere Marie Louise Rhum Blanc Canne de Lune 2024

Domaine de Bel Air bottled this Carrere blanc under its Marie Louise label, Canne de Lune, made from cane grown biodynamically and cut at a full-moon harvest using the estate's own sugar-cane yeasts. Distilled from fresh-pressed sugar-cane juice as an unaged Guadeloupe white, it sits under the island's IGP, a terroir-driven agricole that wears its farming story openly.

Released at 56% with sweetening undisclosed, it leans hard into the savoury end of the cane spectrum: sugar cane, grass, green olive and florals on the nose, then a palate of cane, olive, thyme and herbal intensity, finishing oily and vegetal with that olive note running right through. The brine-and-herb character marks it as a purist's blanc rather than an easy crowd-pleaser, the kind of dry, intense white that defines what fresh-cane spirit can be. Best in a Ti' Punch or sipped neat by drinkers who relish the green, briny side of agricole.