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 Panama 8yi Cabreuvra Finish comes from Alcoholes del Istmo S.A. distillery in Panama, where it is manufactured from molasses and distilled in column stills. The first 6 years of maturation took place in the tropics, in traditional American oak ex-bourbon barrels. Then it was transported to France and filled into Ferrand ex-cognac barrels for 1 year. Finally, some of the spirit was filled into a Cabreuvra (Myrocarpus frondosus) wood barrel for another year. It was bottled in 2017 as a limited edition coming form that one single barrel, as a part of the Single Cask series.
Nose: Spicy, with notes of nutmeg and pepper, apricots, peaches, chocolate, wood.
Palate: Fruity and spicy. Notes of cocoa, wood and pepper.
Finish: Long, spicy.