Plantation rum Australia 2007 14 years 49.3%

Plantation Australia 2007 is bottled at 49.3% alcohol and has no added sugar.

Scent: The amber color emits delicious stone fruit scents of peach and apricots and fresh notes of vanilla, coconut and American oak.
Taste: Here again, as in the taste, exotic fruits, cocoa and vanilla.

Plantation Australia 2007 has aged 13 years in Bourbon 200 liter casks in Queensland Australia and 1 year in Ferrand 400 liter casks in France.

Fermentation took 12 days.

It is for the first time ever that Plantation has bottled a rum from Australia. The distillery is called Beenleigh Artisan Distillers and is located in Eagleby, Queensland. It is fermented with both dunder and the relatively rare yeast, schizosaccharomyces pombe. The yeast was first found in East Africa, and Pombe means beer in Swahili. The long fermentation gives a rum with lots of flavour, which here has spent 14 years in barrel: 13 in Australia in bourbon casks and 1 year at Plantation in Cognac.

Maison Ferrand, led by spirits guru Alexandre Gabriel, is the company behind some of the most essential cognacs, rums and gins in the modern spirits landscape. Under the umbrella there are, among others, Pierre Ferrand Cognac, Plantation Rum and Citadelle Gin, rum under the Kaniché brand and cognac under the name Claude Chatelier. In addition, a number of luxury wines are produced, of which their curaçao in particular has caused excitement in cocktail bars worldwide. The company is broad, but common to every drop is an unwavering dedication to quality.

Maison Ferrand was created with one mission: to preserve the gastronomic treasures of France. Alexandre has made a virtue of breathing life into old and long-forgotten traditions, and the eternally eager Frenchman is known, among other things, for dusting off and buying up old archives from bankrupt houses, in order to learn more about the production methods of the past. But at Ferrand you also understand the value of renewal, and today innovation is valued as highly as tradition. This is clearly seen in the Citadelle Gin brand. Getting permission to distill gin in Cognac required five years of bureaucratic struggle against the area's stubborn spirits giants.

Since then, the company has spread beyond France's borders, and today Ferrand is perhaps best known for its series of rums. Under the name Plantation, Alexandre buys rums from many different countries in the Caribbean and stores them in France in cognac casks. In the series there are rums for both the beginner and the connoisseur, for both the daiquiri and the Glencairn glass. In 2017, the company bought the Barbados distillery West Indies Rum Distillery, and now also has its own rum production from scratch.