Pere Labat Single Cask Rhum Agricole Brut De Fut 2009

Rhum Père Labat is distilled on the island of Marie-Galante, part of Guadeloupe. The distillery, aging facilities, and the estate’s sugarcane fields sit on 1300+ acres. Producing rum since the early 1900s, Père Labat utilizes estate and locally grown sugarcane varieties native to the island. As Rhum Agricole, these spirits are produced from fresh-pressed sugarcane juice rather than molasses. The distillery is the oldest on the island of Marie-Galante and houses one of the oldest stills in the Caribbean.

Rhum Agricole: French for agricultural rum, produced from fresh cane juice rather than molasses. Generally associated with French overseas territories and distilled on the French West Indies islands of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Grande-Terre, and BasseTerre. Rum made from cane juice is also produced in Haiti, Brazil, Cape Verde, and throughout Central and South America where it goes by a variety of regional names. 25 distilleries in the French West Indies produce Rhum Agricole, 9 of which are in Guadeloupe – 6 on the main island, 3 on Marie-Galante.