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Christian Drouin Expérimental Caroni Angels
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Christian Drouin’s Experimental range aims to explore new, unexpected and technical associations between Calvados and the greatest spirits from all four corners of the world.
In 2004, Luca discovered Caroni in Trinidad and Tobago, during one of his trips to the Caribbean, the forgotten stocks of a large state distillery founded in 1918 and closed in 2003.
In 2020, Guillaume Drouin imagined a new challenge as exciting as it was demanding for Christian Drouin’s Experimental range and asked Luca if he could find him some empty barrels of these rums. Six barrels of Caroni 1996 were soon housed in the Daniel Flambard cellar in Pont l’Evêque and filled with a 17-year-old Pays d’Auge Calvados.
"We had to find a calvados that was powerful and structured enough to support the aroma of these old Caroni casks. I usually push the reductions of our calvados quite far to find the best degrees of balance, but for this Caroni Angels, it seemed clear that the chosen calvados had to be maintained at a higher degree. After maturing for 8 months in these casks, the balance seemed to me to be achieved and Caroni Angels was bottled at 48.8% vol."
Limited edition of 1506 copies
