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Basseterre Guadeloupe 1995

PRODUCER: Montebello / Carrère

AREA OF ORIGIN: Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe

VARIETY: Dark rum

ABV: 58.2%

WEBSITE: www.facebook.com/RhumMontebello

Guadeloupe has several respected rum distillers and this one – called Carrère but better known as Montebello – is one of the best. It was founded in 1930 and has been thriving ever since. With about 25 employees, it is not a small distillery, but all of the fermentation, distillation, ageing, and bottling is done under the close supervision of the Marsolle family. The estate has only 15 hectares of cane today, so most of the year-old cane is bought from farmers in the Petit-Bourg area. Beautifully packaged and very much at the premium end of the rum market, Basseterre Guadeloupe was distilled at Montebello in 1995. A blend of agricole and molasses rums bottled at cask strength, this has notes of cumin, liquorice and lemon.