Compagnie des Indes Rum Jamaica Navy Strength 5 Years - Caravan Wines & Spirits

Compagnie des Indes

Compagnie des Indes Rum Jamaica Navy Strength 5 Years

Style Rum > Traditional
Producer Compagnie des Indes
Origin Bottled in France; rum sourced globally
$143 / btl
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What it tastes like.

Navy Strength Blend of 4 Distilleries Compagnie Des Indes. Deep gold. Opens with powerful aromas of creamy soda, fried banana, dried mango, fruit bread and white pepper. Second pass finds raw sugar, hints of white chocolate and banana cake added to the mix. Concentrated yet remarkably smooth and poised given the ABV; gentle bittersweetness at midpalate with banana peel, fruit loaf, white pepper, grassy/pineapple freshness and warming sweet spices lingering at length. Complex and never too sweet.

57% ABV

700ml

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About Compagnie des Indes.

Bottled in France; rum sourced globally ·Est. 2014

Compagnie des Indes is an independent rum bottler founded in 2014 by Florent Beuchet, a young Burgundian with deep family ties to French distillation — his father owns Les Fils d'Émile Pernot (the Pontarlier absinthe house already covered in this collection). Florent worked in New York selling rum for two years before returning to Europe in 2007, where he saw the European rum market opening and founded Compagnie des Indes to source single-cask, single-distillery rum from across the producing countries — Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Indian Ocean — and bottle each separately.

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How to pour it.

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

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Why Caravan backs Compagnie des Indes

Bottled in France; rum sourced globally

Compagnie des Indes is the youngest house on the shelf and the only one that doesn't distil. Florent Beuchet - a French spirits man trained on Citadelle gin and Cognac Ferrand - founded it in 2014 with a working brief: travel the Caribbean, walk distilleries from Jamaica to Guyana to Belize, and select single casks personally. The casks ship to France, age out in Beuchet's cellars, and bottle under the Compagnie des Indes label. No additives, no sugar, no chill-filtration. What's in the cask is what's in the bottle.

The name is direct: the original Compagnie francaise des Indes occidentales was the French West India Company, founded in 1664 to handle the colonial trade in sugar, rum and spice. Beuchet borrowed both the name and the trade route - the same Caribbean origins, three and a half centuries later, curated rather than industrially produced. Single-cask releases identify the distillery, age, vintage and outturn; blended bottlings (West Indies, Caraibes, Latino) layer multiple origins for a designed flavour rather than a single-house signature. The range covers Jamaica (Hampden, Worthy Park, Long Pond), Trinidad (Caroni, T.D.L.), Barbados (Foursquare, West Indies), Guyana (Diamond, Port Mourant), Belize, Panama, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and the multi-island blends.

Drink the single-cask releases neat to read the distillery signature directly - this is rum at its most unfiltered. Start with a Jamaican Hampden or Worthy Park for high-ester character, or a Guyana Port Mourant for the dark, treacly Demerara profile. The blended bottlings (West Indies, Caraibes) work as more accessible introductions or for cocktails where you want Caribbean breadth rather than a single-distillery voice.

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