Habitation Velier Papa Rouyo White (70cl, 62%)

This white rhum agricole uses a single sugar cane variety from a defined origin: only Matos cane from the historic four-hectare plot of Charles Albert Ruscade, known as Papa Rouyo, in Le Moule on Grande-Terre. Tim Synésius works the chalk- and clay-rich soils, and the canes are harvested by hand and crushed on site. After a long fermentation of the cane juice, the rum is double distilled in pot stills. The rum distilled in 2021 remains unaged and is bottled at 62%, with an ester content of 67.9 grams per hectolitre of pure alcohol. No sugar is added, and there is no chill filtration or colouring. On the nose, herbs, grass and vegetal notes meet grapes, olives, lime and passion fruit, with melon on the palate.