Trois Rivières Baccarat Millésime 1977

Trois Rivieres is a Martinique estate dating to 1660, and its Baccarat Millesime 1977 is a prestige single cask vintage, a long aged agricole from fresh pressed sugarcane juice. Column distilled and bottled unsweetened at 45% from a single barrel, it represents the kind of decades old cane juice rhum that only a handful of houses can offer.

Long ageing has softened and deepened the spirit, giving a nose of herbal notes, gentle sweetness, yellow fruits and candied lemon, while the palate stays herbaceous and a touch diluted in feel, with yellow fruit, vegetal tones and wood. The finish turns earthy and vegetal with a thread of honey. This is an elegant, mature agricole where grassy youth has given way to soft fruit, herbs and layered tertiary character, the hallmark of a great old Martinique vintage. A rhum for slow, attentive neat sipping, it rewards anyone curious about how single cask agricole evolves across the better part of half a century.