LA FAVORITE - Millésime 2012 - 49,3%
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.
This edition of La Favorite is an aged rum from the 2012 vintage, aged 9 years in specially selected oak barrels.
