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$159
A five-year aged Haitian rum from sugarcane honey on a pot still, bottled by Velier at full strength of 59.5%, intense and savoury with sugarcane, honey, herbs, meaty smoke, tropical fruit and oak.
Description
This Vieux Sajous comes from the Chelo distillery via Velier, an aged take on one of Haiti's celebrated clairin profiles. Unusually it is built from sugarcane honey, a concentrated cane syrup, rather than fresh juice or molasses, distilled on a pot still with the wild character that defines Haitian rum, then matured around five years in ex-bourbon oak.
The wood rounds the spirit without taming all of its intensity. The nose carries fresh sugarcane, honey and a vegetal lift, the palate sugarcane and honey over oak with a fresh edge, and the finish citrus, oak, allspice and more cane. Beneath it run the herbal, meaty and smoky notes that mark the style. Unsweetened and bottled at 59.5%, this is a complex, characterful sipper, the funk softened by age but still present, best given air and time to settle.
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