Old Collector
HSE 1960 (wood box)
Description
The first version of the 1960 vintage released by the HSE distillery in the 1990s. History tells us that this vintage was once sold along with the warehouses to the new management team (moving from the Saint-Etienne estate during the HSE period), who then successfully had it certified AOC (hence the indication on the bottle).
Already bottled, the rum would have lost its splendor over time. HSE decided in 1998 to reopen all their bottles in order to place the rum in third-season French oak barrels to allow it to "aerate" and regain a certain roundness. The rum is thus oxygenated for an average of six additional years before being rebottled.
We would therefore have a rum that would be approaching 30 years old, with two distinct aging phases: a first from 1960 to the 1980s, and a second from 1998 to the 2000s (for an average of 5/6 years in 3rd passage barrels).
