Sample Swell de Spirits New Yarmouth 1994 Flashback 27yr 66,7% 3clNew Yarmouth 1994, American oak cask, 24 years of tropical and 3 years of continental aging, 66. 7% ABV, Cask Strength, 500ml "Ladies in straw hats load your suede backpack with exotic fruits, spices, and coconut oil at a Caribbean farmers market while you enjoy a slice of tamarind and ginger cake dusted with powdered sugar." Color: Rosewood Nose: Toasted banana bread dusted with powdered sugar, worn leather backpack, new suede shoes, newly varnished

Tate & Lyle sold a 51% controlling stake to the Trinidadian government in 1970

It comes from the very fashionable distillery

built in 1947 to produce exceptional rums for the world-renowned Angostura brand

Damoiseau 1980 60% French Edition distilled in 1980 from molasses and sugar cane juice

When Luca visited Hervé Damoiseau (CEO of Damoiseau rums)

and honeyed notes

then for a few months in a former Armagnac barrel

with a delicate and persistent finish

surviving both the devastating eruption of Mount Pelée in 1902

this old vintage agricultural rum (2018) was refined in a HERR cask and bottled in 2022 at cask strength

The Confrérie du Rhum

a long-standing supplier of Premium Spirits