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Bottle Details
WIRD 2007 Plantation 14 Year Old Extreme No.5
Launched in 1999, Plantation Rum is a brand owned by the well-established cognac and spirits producer, Maison Ferrand. Established in 1989, Maison Ferrand has used its extensive contacts in the spirits industry to source some exceptional casks of rum. The company also has privileged access to those in the warehouses of Clarendon and Long Pond in Jamaica, through its acquisition of the West Indies Rum Distillery (WIRD) and the shares in National Rums of Jamaica that came with it. Its ownership of the Bajan WIRD distillery has seen it increasingly involved in rum production as well as bottling in recent years. In June 2020 it was announced that Plantation Rum would be changing its name to support the global dialogue around racial equality, with the company accepting the hurtful connotations that the word “plantation” can evoke.
This is a 14 year old, the fifth part of the dosage-free Extreme series from Plantation. Distilled in 2007, this has spent 2 years in a bourbon cask in the tropics, and ten years in bourbon casks in France and a further two years in Ferrand ex-Cognac wood.
The West Indies Rum Distillery, more commonly referred to by the acronym, WIRD, is a historic distillery in Barbados that has been producing rum since 1893. It currently operates six of its nine stills, two unique pot stills, three column stills, and the “last remaining Vulcan still”. The oldest currently working column still was built and installed by the famous British coppersmiths, John Dore, in 1975. The two oldest pot stills date back to the early 1800s. On June 27th 2006 WIRD became one of the founding partners in National Rums of Jamaica, the company that owns the historic Long Pond distillery and the legendary Clarendon distillery. In 2017 the distillery's famous Cockspur brand was sold off to a company called Woodland Radicle and WIRD was acquired by Maison Ferrand, a cognac producer established in 1989. The company had branched out into gin-making in 1996, and its purchase of WIRD completed its journey from independent rum bottler to distillers, following the introduction of its acclaimed Plantation Rum label in 1999.
West Indies Rum Distillery
A historic rum distillery on Barbados (also known as WIRD), currently owned by the French company, Maison Ferrand. It was built in 1893 and while most of its history was spent as a contract-distiller, its own in-house distillery brand, Stade's, was introduced in 2021.
Planteray
The flagship rum brand of the French company, Maison Ferrand. It was launched as Plantation in 1999 and was originally an independent label produced using casks from across the world. As of 2017, Maison Ferrand has owned the West Indies Rum Distillery which now provides rum for its core expressions.
Maison Ferrand
The trading name of Cognac Ferrand SASU, a cognac producer housed in the 18th century Château de Bonbonnet in Ars, France. The company imports and ages casks of rum from all over the world, generally finishing them in an array of different wood types before bottling as its Planteray rum brand.
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