Tres Vieux (750 ml)

Region: rhum agricole martinique

Description: vsop sugarcane juice rum (aged) 43%

Tasting Notes
A superlative brown rhum agricole distilled from the finest sugarcane juice of Martinique. Rhum vieux is aged more than 6 years. Good body, marvelous complexity with delicate developed bouquet of chocolate, spices, vanilla and oak. Its taste is smooth, rich and very full with an expansive finish.

Food Matching
In a brandy glass straight or as “Old Punch” with the splash of sugarcane syrup and sprinkle of cinnamon.

Process
There are ten varieties of sugar cane used by Dillon. The cane is grown for two years and when harvested the sugar is extracted over a period of 2 to 3 days. Speed is essential. The saying goes "the cane should have its feet in the earth and its head in the mill"The cane is crushed three times to release the juice by a steam engine driven mill. Water is added and the juice is allowed to ferment- it is again milled to crush the sugar, and fermentation starts. The residue cane is used to fire the boilers that provide the steam. The distillation is a slow process, in columns heated to 65 °C (149 °F), producing an alcohol of 65%. It rests for five months then is reduced and bottled at 50% to 55%