Renegade Rum Distillery: A Modern Marvel
precisely designed to exalt the individuality of the terroirs, the purity of prolonged fermentation, and thoughtful and rigorous distillation.
New Bacolet Terroir: More rugged than neighboring Old Bacolet, the natural amphitheater of New Bacolet is a south-facing, steep-sided, sunburnt basin, with drought-sensitive canes on the weathered upper slopes and growth lush on the rich, deep colluvial soils below - a classic exploration of the terroir. For this rum, we harvested the sucrose-rich variety that we call "Lacalome Red" in the field of "Chèvre Hill", which is located in the terroir known as Haute Combe.
New Bacolet is landlocked and sheltered by a forest to the north, and slopes towards the south. Being based along a mountainside, steeper than most of our operations, excavation of the land was the most difficult. Four terroirs were identified on 21 hectares, and we planted the Yellow Lady and Lacalome Red varieties.