AVW Multi Vintages

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AVW Multi Vintages

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We exclusively offer very old vintage rums from the private collection of the A. Van Wees (AVW) family.

Here, a batch of 15 75cl bottles:

AVW Barbados 1946 (75cl)
AVW Barbados 1949 (75cl)

AVW Demerara 1966 (75cl)
AVW Demerara 1969 (37cl)

AVW Jamaica 1934 (37cl)
AVW Jamaica 1939 (37cl)
AVW Jamaica 1949 (75cl)
AVW Jamaica 1952 (37cl)
AVW Jamaica 1955 (75cl) 
AVW Jamaica 1961 (75cl)  
AVW Jamaica 1967 (75cl) 

AVW Martinique 1950 (75cl)  
AVW Martinique 1956 (75cl)
AVW Martinique 1958 (75cl)
AVW Martinique 1965 (75cl)

These treasures are the work of Cees Van Wees, who acquired them somewhat by chance in the 1980s. At the time, the Scheer trading company was expanding and had to move outside the city, transferring many big barrels into smaller ones for easier transport.

The cooper who was responsible for maintaining and dismantling the original barrels asked Cees for help transporting them to his cooperage. As they began dismantling the barrels, they quickly realized that they were not completely empty and that several liters of rum remained inside. Without further ado, our companions decided to empty them and, at Cees Van Wees's suggestion, store the rums in demijohns. He then took great care to label each glass demijohn with the information found on the barrels: country of origin, vintage, and alcohol content.

Like a great gentleman, the cooper offered almost the entire discovery (he would still keep a little for himself) to Cees Van Wees as compensation for helping him transport the barrels. Shortly afterward (in 1984), Cees began bottling his finds using very old blown glass bottles of various capacities (35, 37.5, and 75cl) and colors (brown, green, and even a superb blue), and created labels for the occasion on which he hand-wrote the usual information. The "CIGUENA" collection was born...

The Ciguena collection comprises only a few hundred bottles and remains today one of the rare—if not the only—maps of the trade of the time. Four countries and more than fifteen vintages retrace no less than five decades of history...

Jamaica Rum 1934, 1939, 1949, 1952, 1955, 1961, 1967 and 1977
Barbados Rum 1946, 1949 and 1973
Martinique Rum 1950, 1956, 1958 and 1965
Demerara Rum 1966, 1969 and 1974

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