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Incremental Bidding Explained
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Bottle Details
This was a 2018 addition to Velier's "black bottle" range of incredible rums. Luca Gargano selected 27 "special casks" that had an unusually high level of congeners; 218 g/hlpa to be precise.
Antigua 2012 Velier Catch of the Day Heavy
The only remaining rum distillery on the island, Antigua Distillers Ltd (ADL) was established in 1929 by a cooperative of local rum shop owners who were looking to control the production of their stock. The distillery was built three years later, on the unfortunately named Rat Island in St John’s Harbour. Operating a four-column copper Savalle still, the rum was blended and bottled by each shop under their own labels. Their first collaborative product was the Cavalier Antigua label in 1947, which set the scene for the now widely distributed English Harbour brand. The distillery’s rum is unique in that rather than replace their historic old copper Savalle still with a new three-column still from John Dore in 1991, they fused them both together, retaining the Savalle as the rectification column and creating on of the only hybrid still in operation in the Caribbean.
This was a 2018 addition to Velier's range of incredible rum. Luca Gargano selected 27 'special casks' that had an unusually high level of congeners; 218 g/hlpa to be precise.
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.
Antigua
The Antigua distillery in the only remaining rum producer in Antigua and Barbuda. It was built is 1932 and is unique in the Caribbean for its use of an all-copper hybrid still, created in 1991 by fusing a column from its original Savalle setup as the rectifier on a new John Dore three-column still.
The distillery's flagship brand is English Harbour, and it also continues to market its first ever in-house label, Cavalier.
Antigua Distillery Limited
A rum company that is the owner and operator of the Antigua distillery on Rat Island in the Parish of St John's. The company's inaugural brand was Cavalier, which it still produces today alongside the widely distributed English Harbour.
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