Montebello 1998, 23 years, Guadeloupe edition No. 1
Montebello, originally called the Carrère distillery, was founded in 1930. It produces an agricultural rum while using only hand-harvested canes from the volcanic regions of Petit-Bourg, Goyave, Basse-Terre, Lamentin, and Sainte-Rose. It is also one of the last distilleries in the Caribbean using steam engines.
The Colours of Rum expression in a 23yo rum, aged in ex-rum barrels. Only 155 bottles have been bottled in 2022 at 43,3% ABV.
Montebello, originally called the Carrère distillery, was founded in 1930. It produces an agricultural rum while using only hand-harvested canes from the volcanic regions of Petit-Bourg, Goyave, Basse-Terre, Lamentin, and Sainte-Rose. It is also one of the last distilleries in the Caribbean using steam engines.
The Colours of Rum expression in a 23yo rum, aged in ex-rum barrels. Only 155 bottles have been bottled in 2022 at 43,3% ABV.
Montebello, originally called the Carrère distillery, was founded in 1930. It produces an agricultural rum while using only hand-harvested canes from the volcanic regions of Petit-Bourg, Goyave, Basse-Terre, Lamentin, and Sainte-Rose. It is also one of the last distilleries in the Caribbean using steam engines.
The Colours of Rum expression in a 23yo rum, aged in ex-rum barrels. Only 155 bottles have been bottled in 2022 at 43,3% ABV.
Guadeloupe 1998 edition no. 1
Region: Guadeloupe
Distillery: Montebello
Age: 23
Distillation: 05-1998
Bottled: 02-2022
Cask no: 4
Cask type: Ex-Rum
Still type: Column
Maturation: Continental Ageing
ABV 43,3%
Vol. 700 ml
No bottles: 155
Tasting Notes:
“I never quite managed to make myself a religion about Montebello, as we say here. Last time it was all very 1975… But the indies would usually help. In rum too, the indies are extremely important. Colour: straw. Nose: so charmingly weird! Elderberries everywhere, sorb, chequers, St. Germain… Now was it worth the hassle to harvest, distil and age cane juice to come up some elderberry/flower eau-de-vie and liqueur? Only half-joking… Mouth: same feelings, it's all about elder. How bizarre… Some acacia gum too, zucchini flower fritter, then blood orange… Even if the ABV would suggest otherwise, I would suppose it was entirely aged on location, on Basseterre. Finish: medium, exactly on, I insist, elderflower liqueur. Comments: what's good is that apparently, Elderflower liqueur had dethroned Aperol in Spritzes. Make some Montebello Spritz? Ideas ideas…”
SGP: 660 - 85 points.
Source: whiskyfun.com
Nose: pretty good. Some dusty wood and floral notes at first, moving towards dried herbs. Hints of orange and persimmon in the background, as well as light honey. Subtle hints of green olives in the background, but this is not a funky rum.
Mouth: rather light-bodied of course, it feels like you have to drag it out. Still a bit floral, even a little perfumed, with hints of oranges and lemon peels but also light menthol and lavender. Green tea (maybe matcha), leading to grassy notes and hay, as well as gently peppery wood. Faint char in the background.
Finish: shortish and rather herbal. These floral notes are back as well.
Note: 84/100
Source: whiskynotes.be
Aromas of citrus, honey, and grass, with spices and wood in the mouth.
