1998 Montebello 23 Year Old "Colours Of Rum" Edition No. 1 Single Barrel Cask Strength Guadeloupe Rum (700ml)
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Review Date: 02/2023
The old Carrere distillery in Guadeloupe is agricole in all but name. Produced from hand harvest cane grown on volcanic soils, Montebello is one of the last distillers to use steam engines in the process. Founded in 1930, not a whole lot has changed there in the last 90 years. It's extremely unusual to see products of this age from Martinique and even more so to be offered a single cask. Let's taste it! The color is light gold. Extremely unusual nose of wild flowers, fresh lavender, sweet fresh dill, honeysuckle, cured green olives and persimmon skins. On the palate it's medium bodied with a powerful exotic herbal character, fresh ground matcha, olive oil. The finish builds around the herbal and sundry driven flavors. A totally wild and gorgeous experience incomparable anything else in the store.
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Colours of Rum is the newest creation from the famous bottler and luxury goods purveyor Wealth Solutions in Warsaw, Poland. The team at Wealth Solutions has been identifying, bottling and selling the world's most collectible products in almost every category. While their specialty is fine spirits - they've bottled a 1964 Karuizawa, 50 year old GlenFarclas and countless casks of Cognac, they've also traded in rare and limited watches and other collectibles. They have a knack for finding products that will appreciate significantly in the future. Colours of Rum is their custom line of rare hand selected casks of rum and each represents the rarest stocks available. No expense is spared to acquire the very best stocks and they are sold exclusively at K&L Wine Merchants. This rare rum from the Island of Guadeloupe was distilled on an ancient column still at the Montebello Distillery on Basseterre - the western side of the Island. It was aged for 23 years in used rum barrels before being bottled without dilution or filtration. Only 30 bottles available in the US.
Product Details
Origin: Guadaloupe
Type/Varietal: Rum
Alcohol Content: 43.3%
SKU: #1651221