Modern Collector
Domaine de Courcelles 1972 31YO 42%
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 42% version - was released by Velier. This bottle tells us that the rum was distilled in January 1972, aged in 220-litre barrels and bottled in November 2003. It is therefore a 31-year-old rum and probably a rum from sugar (molasses) and non-agricultural.
Limited edition.
