Modern Collector
Domaine de Courcelles 1972 31YO 54%
Description
The Domaine de Courcelles was once a distillery founded in the 1930s in Guadeloupe, then closed in 1964 before being moved (barrels and still) to the Sainte-Marthe distillery which continued to distill with the Courcelles still for 8 years... before closing in turn in 1972, the year of the very last distillation.
The barrels were then forgotten for a long time in the cellars of Claude Marsolle in Pointe-à-Pitre before being bought by Jean-Cedric Brot (owner of the Père Labat distillery) at the end of the 1990s. The bottling offered here for sale - a 54% version - was released by Velier.
This is a rum distilled in January 1972, aged in 220 liter barrels until November 2003, then transferred to oak barrels until bottling in April 2005. It is therefore a rum from 31 years old and probably from a sugar (molasses) and non-agricultural rum.
Limited edition.
