Maison La Mauny Rhum blanc

Maison La Mauny Rhum Blanc is an unaged Martinique blanc from La Mauny, a heritage distillery at Riviere-Pilote with roots to 1749 and one of the island's largest. Distilled from fresh-pressed sugar-cane juice under the island's rum AOC, which bans added sugar, it is made on the house's traditional copper column run low to keep the cane congeners in the spirit.

That low distillation is why the rum tastes the way it does. The nose is aromatic and floral with fruit and a spicy lift, and the palate brings the agricole cane signature, citrus, fresh sugar-cane and pear, before a finish that is flowery and peppery with honey and fruit. Bottled at a brisk 55% with no dosage, it has the snap and intensity for a proper Ti Punch, the canonical agricole serve, where a little lime and cane syrup let the cane sing. A reliable, aromatic blanc that many keep on hand as a go-to white agricole for mixing.