MONTEBELLO - 11 years old - La Rencontre - Finish Chassagne Montrachet - 47.1%
Montebello rum is an agricultural rum produced by the Carrère distillery in Petit-Bourg in Guadeloupe . The Carrère distillery is better known under the name of 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 ensured the succession of the family business. In 2012, the distillery embarked on the path of recycling all of the "waste" resulting from the crushing of the cane. It uses dry bagasse (cane residue) as fuel to produce the steam which powers the presses grinding the cane. To produce its rum, the Montebello distillery has the particularity of only using canes 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 cuvée was born from a meeting between the Burgundian estate François Carillon and the Montebello rum distillery. This 11-year-old old agricultural rum was put into barrels in August 2010. It was refined in barrels that contained wine from the Chassagne-Montrachet appellation and then bottled in July 2022.