Ten Cane Distillery The Duchess 11 Years Old Pot Still Cane Juice Cask 80 63% 2008


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Distileerderij Ten Cane
Bottelaar The Duchess
Serie TROPICAL HUMMINGBIRD SERIES
Gebotteld voor
Gedistilleerd op 2008
Gebotteld 2019
Land Trinidad
Streek Trinidad
Leeftijd 11
Cask Type Bourbon Barrel
Vatnummer 80
Alcohol percentage 63
Inhoud 0,70
Etiket Perfect
Voorraad 0

Professionele reviews

Serge Valentin (88)

Ten Cane Distillery 11 yo 2008/2019 (63%, The Duchess, Trinidad, cask #80, 232 bottles) Four stars and a half I’m extremely far from being a rum expert (I’m sure Mike Pence knows more) but I had just never heard of Ten Cane Distillery before. How bad is that? Apparently, it was a brand (or an actual distillery?) launched by LVMH in the early 2000s that never took off and that subsequently got shut down for good, in true Darwinian-capitalist fashion. You learn something new every day, don’t you! Colour: deep amber. Nose: hey! Have they tried to emulate Caroni? Olives, honey sauce, tar and liquorice, soot, gasoline, tarmac… and 63% vol. Caroni, really. So, with water: seawater, tarry nets, and the largest bag of Dutch liquorice ever. Quite some Swedish snuff too. Mouth (neat): did I say Caroni? Thick liquorice, salty bits of dried fish, concentrated caramel, brown sauce, corn syrup, bananas flambéed, menthol, tar… With water: a saltiness appearing. The craziest salted liquorice ever – at least to me as a Frenchman, I’m sure our dear friends up there in the north will find this as light as the feathers of a baby sparrow. Finish: long. Salted liquorice, Douglas fir liqueur, orange cordial and mint cream. That’s relatively heavy. Comments: good, I think this is excellent. What happened LVMH? Too soon? Too impatient? Perhaps the name? I mean, Ten Cane…

Gal Granov (90)

Two new Rums were recently released by the Duchess (in their Hummingbird series of Rums), which have bottled quite a few very good Rums in the past. The first one I am about to review is the 11-year-old ‘Ten Cane’. Ten Cane is a closed distillery located in Trinidad. This rum was aged for 7 years in tropical weather then 4 more years in non-tropical, and bottled at a nice 63% !!! from cask #80.

I must confess I’ve not heard about Ten Cane distillery until now. They were introduced in 2005 by Moet Hennesey (LVMH). The distillery took a classic artisanal approach to its production process, making use of French pot stills and tropical aging. However, the rums never sold well…

Nose: big with lots of wax, shoe polish, cane juice, rubber, mocha, banana, ginger, vanilla ice and clove, lovely polished oak, and cane sugar, kerosene.

Palate: boom! Spicy, hot with chili, pepper, sugar, leather, prune juice, oak shavings, more banana, and some grassy notes as well that balance all the fruity stuff that’s going on here. Lovely.

Finish: More sugar cane, funk, wax, and more of the ‘dirty’ so to speak, fruit.

Conclusion : While this is no Caroni, it does share some similarities, but it’s quite different in a good way. Highly interesting stuff, I think I am in love. Yet again the Duchess have demonstrated they know how to pick a cask!

BOW (90)

7 Years Tropical Aging.

They used to work as artisanal as possible using fresh cane juice, double-distilled in small batches in French pot stills.


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