Les Frères de la Côte - Hispaniola n°6 - 18 years old Solera - Dynamic aging in Oloroso ex-sherry barrels - 57.4%
The Brothers of the Coast are a group of importers/bottlers of products exclusively transported by sailboats . The company was created in 2015 by two French sailboat captains: Raphaël and François Mangin . The Rhums Frères de la Côte have been bottled since 2017 in their depot located in Saint-Etienne in the Loire. They sail on the Très Hombres , a 32-meter Brigantine-type sailboat, without engine, for 35 tons of cargo. Since 2010, the Très Hombres has completed 12 Atlantic rotations from its home port in the Netherlands. In 2019, a new company ( La Compagnie des Frères de la Côte ) was created with the aim of rehabilitating the sailboat Zeehaen , Brigantine of more than 45 meters for 120 tons of cargo. The concept is to develop a fleet of cargo sailboats offering an alternative to current transport , and to restore a more human value to the transport of transatlantic goods with a trade closer to ecology than to the economy.
This molasses rum comes from the Oliver & Oliver distillery in the Dominican Republic . It comes from a century-old Solera system, in a tropical climate and composed of old Bourbon barrels in North American white oak. It was then transferred to a cask that had contained Oloroso sherry where it underwent a dynamic 2-month aging on board the Brigantine Très Hombres. It was then refined for an additional year in barrels that had contained Foursquare rum from Barbados. 900 bottles were produced.