Chalong Bay Tropical Note Series Lemongrass (700 ml)

Founded in 2012 by Marine Lucchini and Thibault Spithakis, Chalong Bay was built around a deliberate philosophical inversion: importing a 40-year-old Armagnac copper alambic from France to distil sugarcane spirit in Southeast Asia — the crop's ancestral homeland — reversing the colonial direction of rum-making knowledge. The Lemongrass expression belongs to the Tropical Notes sub-range, where Thai botanicals are introduced not by maceration but by vapour infusion through a flavour basket mounted on the alambic, a technique borrowed directly from gin production, making this one of the few sugarcane spirits in the world distilled with botanical vapour contact rather than post-distillation blending. The base is 100% first-press juice of a single indigenous Thai sugarcane variety, hand-harvested without burning and pressed within approximately six hours of cutting — no molasses, no additives. After distillation, the spirit is rested in stainless steel for a minimum of eight months with slow progressive dilution to 40% ABV, preserving the raw tropical-vegetal character of the cane with zero wood influence. What sets this expression apart categorically is the combination of agricole-style raw-juice base with in-still botanical infusion: the lemongrass character is fixed at the moment of distillation, not layered on afterward. Thai alcohol licensing law prohibits the word 'rum' on the home-market label — bottles read 'The Spirit of Phuket distilled from 100% pure sugarcane.' NV by nature; drink now for maximum aromatic lift.