Old Collector
Lapalun 1952
Description
A unicorn among unicorns, this Lapalun 1952 rum is an ageless rum that was bottled in the 1980s. Originally from Martinique, it is owed to Madame Chantal Comte who bought it from the Clément distillery, which had a small stock of this rum at the time.
At the time, one of her Japanese customers specifically asked her for a Martinique rum dating from the Second World War. Without further ado, she found a small batch of this Lapalun that she bottled herself.
Distilled in 1952, some sources claim that the rum spent 18 years in French oak barrels before being bottled in 1970. It is therefore not strictly speaking a selection, but rather a piece of history that was marketed in 52 copies...
Located in Rivière Salée in Martinique, the Lapalun distillery was created in the 1860s and closed its doors a hundred years later. While some of the rum stocks found buyers on the French market, some were also exported to Japan.
