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Bottle Details
Barbancourt BMHC 2004 Rom de Luxe 17 Year Old
Haiti's national spirit is Clairin, an agricole-style rum spirit. There are are 532 distillers of the product on the island. However, Haiti is also home to the world renowned Barbancourt distillery, where this was produced on their three-column still from pure sugar cane juice.
The Barbancourt distillery on Haiti was established in 1862 by Dupré Barbancourt, a native to the Charente region of France. Aside from his family (who still own the distillery to this day), he also brought with him a sophisticated knowledge of the double distillation technique used to produce some of his homeland’s finest cognac. Dupré had no children, so when he died the distillery passed to his wife’s family, the Gardères, who still own it to this day. It was Jean Gardère who modernised the operation, moving to a new distillery in 1949, right in the centre of the sugarcane fields of the Domaine Barbancourt. Proximity to its natural resources increased production and transformed the company from a local business to a global export brand. Replacing the old pot stills with a three-column continuous still was also a key factor, however the original double distillation regime was retained. Despite losing a third of its stock during the Haiti earthquake in 2010, the distillery thankfully survived, and remains an important player in rum production to this day.
This was distilled in June 2004 and aged for 17 years in single cask #73. It was bottled by Rhum de Lux in September 2021.
One of 228 bottles.
Barbancourt
A Haitian distillery that was founded by Dupré Barbancourt in 1862 and has been in its current location since 1949. It produces a range of cane juice rums which are marketed using its eponymous Barbancourt brand.
Romdeluxe
A Danish independent bottling company, founded in 2016 by Claus Andersen, Thomas Nielsen and Lasse Bjørklund. Initially a hobby for the trio, the company professionalised after it bottling began to gain some traction among enthusiasts and it debuted its flagship The Wild Series in 2019.
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