Montebello - Old Rum - 8 years old - Cask strength - Cask 2014 - Batch #1 - 47.9%
Montebello rum is an agricultural rum produced by the Carrère distillery in Petit-Bourg in Guadeloupe . The Carrère distillery is better known as the Montebello distillery, the name of its rums since 1975 in reference to the name of the district where it is located. The distillery was founded in 1930 by the Dolomie family . Since December 2011, Grégory and Dominique Marsolle have taken over the family business. In 2012, the distillery embarked on the path of recycling all the "waste" resulting from the crushing of cane. It uses dry bagasse (cane residue) as fuel to produce the steam that powers the cane-crushing presses. To produce its rum, the Montebello distillery has the particularity of using only cane harvested by hand from the volcanic regions of Petit-Bourg, Goyave, Basse-Terre, Lamentin and Sainte-Rose. It is also one of the last distilleries in the Caribbean using steam engines .
This old rum from Montebello was barreled in August 2014 and aged in American oak barrels for 8 years. It was bottled in July 2022.