Bellevue 20 Year Old 1998 Valinch & Mallet Exclusive Single Barrel Cask Strength Guadeloupe Rum (Damoiseau)

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Bellevue 20 Year Old 1998 Valinch & Mallet
Exclusive Single Barrel Cask Strength Guadeloupe Rum (Damoiseau)

Valinch & Mallet are a UK-based independent bottling company co-founded by two Italian whisky enthusiasts: Davide Romano and Fabio Ermoli. Like many European-based independent bottlers, Valinch & Mallet (V&M) primarily focuses on (Scotch) whisky products, but have added several fine rums to their portfolio.

Among these rums is their Bellevue 1998 Single Cask: molasses-based rum produced at the Damoiseau distillery in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe. Now you may be asking yourself “where does the ‘Bellevue’ name come from, then?”, and have further questions after googling “Bellevue rum” and finding a number of results relating to different distilleries on the islands making up the Guadeloupe archipelago.

This bottle is named Bellevue after the estate that the Damoiseau distillery was built on top of; the grounds are located in Le Moule on Grande-Terre, the second-largest island in Guadeloupe, and the distillery was founded in 1942 by Roger Damoiseau. Roger’s grandson Hervé Damoiseau currently runs the distillery, which produces rhum under the Damoiseau brand.