Renegade Cane Rum Etude New Bacolet Rum

Harvested in 2000, this pot still rum was made from "lacalome red" cane grown on the New Bacolet field which is south facing. The rum was bottled at 55% after maturing in 76% First Fill American Oak, and 24% Premium French Oak.

Mark Reynier is a restless man, after the sale of Bruichladdich, he opened an Irish Whiskey distillery focused on barley "téireoir". As if that wasn't daunting enough, he also decided to shake things up in the world of rum, opening the Renegade Distillery in Grenada. Renegade rums are made from pure cane juice, applying the same terroir-driven philosophy to rum!

More rugged than nearby Old Bacolet, the natural amphitheatre of New Bacolet is a southerly-facing, steep-sided, sun-baked bowl with drought resistant cane on weathered upper slopes and lush growth on the deeper, rich colluvial soils below – a textbook exploration of terroir. For this rum we harvested the sucrose-rich variety we call Lacalome Red from the "Goat hill" field, which stands on the terroir known as Upper Combe.

"New Bacolet is enclosed and sheltered by a forest at its north, and slopes down towards the south. Being based along a mountainside, steeper than most of our farms, the excavation of the land was the most difficult. Four terroirs were identified over 10 acres, and we initially planted the varieties of Yellow Lady and Lacalome Red."