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Bottle Details
Privateer 2017 Habitation Velier 3 Year Old
Velier was founded by Casimir Chaix in Genoa in 1947 as a wine and spirits importer and distributor. By the 1980s they were still a small family-company with less than ten staff. This all changed in 1986 when it was purchased by Luca Gargano, a former brand ambassador for Saint James who was at the time still in his twenties. Under his direction, they selected their first single cask whiskies in 1992, and their first rum in 1996. In the decades that followed, Velier have gone on to become one of the most collectible brands in the industry, and Gargano has positioned them as the one of the foremost authorities and bottlers of rum anywhere in the world.
More than just a bottler of rum, Luca Gargano is considered a visionary in the cane spirits industry, even developing his own classification for different styles of rum in 2015. Many distilleries have since adopted this. Among the classifications is \"pure single rum,\" which denotes a spirit produced on pot stills at a single distillery. This Habitation Velier range is a celebration of these rums \"which best expresses the raw material and the know-how of the distiller.\"
This and the Villa Paradisetto commemorative in 2020 were the first Velier bottlings from the well-respected Privateer. Aged in American oak cask, this is a vatting of two 2016 and three 2017 barrels, aged and bottled in Ipswich, MA.
Privateer was founded in 2011 by Andrew Cabot, and the distillery is located in Boston, Massachusetts. Under the guidance of master distiller, Maggie Campbell, the distillery has true emphasis on craft production. It uses only Grade A (also known as “Fancy”) US molasses, and for its white rum single origin molasses from one valley in Guatemala. The rum is double distilled, first in a thousand-gallon Vendome pot, then in a copper eau-de-vie still, a hybrid pot/column still with an adjustable plate configuration. It is then bottled in accordance with the Bottled in Bond Act of 1897, which was intended for American whiskey, but ensures the spirit blended is from one distillery and produced in a single distilling season. This transparent approach has won Privateer a loyal following of connoisseurs and collectors alike among its fans.
Privateer
A rum distillery in the New England town of Ipswich, Massachusetts. It was opened in 2011 by Andrew Cabot, a sixth generation descendent of the 18th century rum merchant privateer, after whom the distillery is named. It produces double-distilled molasses rums using pot and copper eau-de-vie stills.
Habitation Velier
A brand of independently bottled rums from Velier SpA. Introduced in 2015, it was intended to showcase what Luca Gargano has termed as Pure Single Rums - those produced at a single distillery using pot stills. Each release is aged at the distillery and offerings include white, aged and single casks.
Velier
An Italian importer and distributor founded in Genoa in 1947. Under the ownership of Luca Gargano since 1986, it has become one of the most important companies in the world rum. It represents a huge array of brands in Europe as well as marketing a number of its own.
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