LA FAVORITE - La réserve du château 2002 - 18 ans - Edition 2020 - 41,2%
La Favorite is one of the last independent distilleries in Martinique with Neisson. It was founded in 1842 on the remains of a sugar refinery called Les Jambettes before being renamed La Favorite in 1851. In 1909, when Henri Dormoy acquired it, he made some improvements to transform the sugar refinery into a distillery. Following a few twists linked to a craze for gambling by Albert Dormoy (Henri's son), La Favorite saw its activity cease in the 1938s. It would not resume production until André, his younger brother, took it over to renovate it completely in 1956.
Today, La Favorite produces sugar cane on 60 hectares and is also supplied by small local producers, it still works entirely using a steam engine built in 1906. Le vesou (wine made from cane sugar), obtained from long-fermented cane juice (up to 72 hours), is distilled in 2 Creole column stills, one of which is entirely made of copper and has been operating since 1957 and the other, more modern, dating from 1986.
La Réserve du Château is an aged agricultural rum. Distilled in 2002, it is aged for 18 years in the distillery's aging cellars in a unique blend of 12 French and American oak barrels. It was bottled at cask strength in September 2020.
