Description
In 1838, the Harel brothers decided to found a company dedicated to developing sugar production in the north of Mauritius. In the same year, they acquired the Belle Vue sugar plantation. In 2005, in partnership with the Quartier Français group, Grays Distilling launched the production and commercialization of rum, including the traditional old rum New Grove. Aged in a Limousin oak cask, this deliciously tannic version shows a maturity of expression found not only throughout the tasting but in every note that sculpts the exuberant and generous palette of flavours and aromas.
Profile: the unctuous first nose is chocolatey, fruity (bitter orange), floral (hyacinth) and syrupy (warm cane sugar). Allowed to breathe, it becomes exotic (mango, guava) and spicy (black pepper). The clean attack is very different from the nose. Medicinal (ointment), camphoric and hot (Espelette pepper), it then moves into fruit (mango, banana). The mid-palate wavers between spices (clove), bourbon vanilla and precious wood (beeswax). Rose petal and geranium flower cover the smooth palette of flavours at the start of the finish. The finish reveals new fruits (pear, apple), burnt wood and heather honey.
Distilled and aged in Mauritius.
