Product description
Plantation Collection is the result of a connoisseur’s devotion.
The story of Alexandre Gabriel’s connection with the spirits markets started relatively recently, in 1989, when he discovered one of the oldest French spirits brands, the Maison Ferrand, located in the Cognac region. Ten years later, having restored its reputation and recognisability, Alexandre Gabriel goes on a journey of discovery to the Caribbean, looking for business partners in Barbados, Guyana and Jamaica. The Plantation Collection is born. Gabriel is now the owner of the West Indies Rum Distillery in Barbados, Claredon Distillery and Long Pond Distillery in Jamaica, as well as a shareholder of National Rum of Jamaica.
Plantation is a whole new world created on the border of Cognac and the Caribbean – ex-Cognac casks are used by rum manufacturers to mature Caribbean rums, and the rums are matured in the tropics of the Caribbean, and then transferred to the milder climate of the French Cognac region, where they undergo another, shorter period of maturation in specially selected casks that previously held local Cognacs.
Plantation Pineapple is a kind of rum-based liqueur, a tribute to the character of the Reverend Stiggins from Dickens’ Pickwick Papers, who loved the “pineapple rum”. Pineapple peel is soaked in Plantation 3 Stars rum and then the rum is re-distilled. Moreover, pineapple fruits are soaked in Plantation Original Dark rum. Eventually, the distillate and the pineapple infusion are blended together, thus creating a perfect tipple with distinct pineapple notes, enhanced by smoke and cloves.