Barbancourt Estate Reserve Extra Old Rum 15 yrs 43% 700ml - Caravan Wines & Spirits

Rhum Barbancourt

Barbancourt Estate Reserve Extra Old Rum 15 yrs 43% 700ml

Style Rum > Aged Rums\,Agricole
Producer Rhum Barbancourt
Origin Haiti
Bottle 700ml
$163 / btl
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What it tastes like.

The Barbancourt family is of French origin, hence the spelling 'Rhum' on the label. Sugar cane grown at Domaine Barbancourt as well as other parts of Haiti is hand cut between November and June, then thrice milled, then fermented for about 72 hours with a proprietary strain of yeast developed in-house. Double distilled in a column still to 70% ABV, then second distillation yields a spirit of 90% ABV. The newly distilled liquor is diluted with water to 50% ABV before storing solely in French Limousin oak barrels and set aside for ageing. Before bottling, the rum is filtered to remove impurities and achieve colour clarity. 

The Estate Reserve is made from pure sugar cane juice, distilled and aged in French Oak barrels for 15 years.

Nose - Amber-hued, the nose hints at vanilla with dried fruits, such as grapes and prunes.

Palate - Fruity with prune notes dominating in a fine and elegant manner.

Finish - Long, rich and complex, but not overbearing. Notes of dried fruits.

43% ABV

700ml

The house

About Barbancourt.

Haiti ·Est. 1862

Rhum Barbancourt is a Haitian rum house founded in Port-au-Prince in 1862 by Dupré Barbancourt, who emigrated from the Cognac region. The rum is distilled twice in copper pot stills from fresh sugar cane juice — closer in method to a Cognac than to most Caribbean molasses-based rums.

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How to pour it.

  • Temperature

    Room temperature. No ice for the first pour — taste the spirit before diluting.

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Why Caravan backs Rhum Barbancourt

Haiti

Rhum Barbancourt has been distilled in Haiti since 1862, when Dupre Barbancourt - a Charente-born distiller - brought the Cognac method to the island and applied it to fresh sugar cane juice rather than molasses. Double distillation in copper pot stills, ageing in Limousin oak: a Caribbean spirit shaped by French technique, made from cane grown a few kilometres from where it's pressed. Five generations of the Gardere family have run the house since taking over from the founder; today it remains one of Haiti's largest export businesses and the sole rum producer working continuously through the country's modern history.

The current Domaine Barbancourt sits in the Plaine du Cul-de-Sac, a fertile plain east of Port-au-Prince, where the house has worked roughly 250 hectares of cane since the 1949 move out of the city centre. The estate runs on its own cane press, a column-then-pot distillation chain, and a temperature-controlled cellar holding stocks back to the 1980s. The 4 Year (3-star) and 8 Year (5-star, Extra Old) sit at the working heart of the range, both bottled at 43%. The 15 Year Reserve du Domaine and Estate Reserve sit further up the catalogue when allocations allow.

Drink the 4 Year in a Daiquiri or a Ti'Punch - the bright cane-juice signature still reads front of palate. The 8 Year takes on Limousin oak structure and drinks closer to a soft Cognac, neat or with a single rock. The 15 Year is a sipping pour for after dinner. Barbancourt is the cleanest reference for the Cognac-method, cane-juice tradition outside the French Caribbean AOC.

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