Made in Haiti directly from sugar cane juice rather than the sugar cane by-product of molasses. This makes it similar to the alcoholic cachaça beverage of Brazil then aged 8 years in oak barrels.
94 Points - "Made with 100% sugarcane, this 86-proof rhum agricole features a superb perfume of honeyed wheat and ripe peach as well as flavors of cinnamon-spiced baked apple that bathe the mouth. The convergence of chamomile, white pepper, and fig is like a warm summer sunset on the palate."
The 2015 Bouchet is in a gorgeous spot right now where it is starting to show some of the complexity that develops in bottle. Petrol, ginger, baking spices, orange peel and hazelnut are nicely laced together, with bright saline notes that wrap it all toge...
From the top of the slope, the 2019 Meursault Les Clous has a well defined bouquet of orange blossom, melon and praline scents that are focused and neatly enmeshed with the oak. The well-balanced palate offers orange peel on the entry. Good intensity here...
Distilled from fermented fresh cane juice. The youngest of the Barbancourt rums. This 4 year old rum isn't quite as smooth as the older, 8 year old rum, but certainly holds it own among aged rums. Traces of vanilla and butterscotch are well balanced in th...
Fragrant and complex nose, with candied citrus and roasted flavors. A powerful body from the onset revealing an almost explosive aromatic richness based cooked pears, citrus fruits, cinnamon and pepper. The finish is very long, spicy with the return of citrus fruits.