{"id":16410,"date":"2016-09-10T15:15:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T13:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/rumporter\/?p=16410\/"},"modified":"2020-01-20T19:02:02","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T18:02:02","slug":"jm-armagnac-cask-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/jm-armagnac-cask-finish\/","title":{"rendered":"The JM Armagnac Cask Finish rhum comes out on top!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"medaille\"\"JM<\/p>\n

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Good news for rum in general and French rhum in particular: following last year\u2019s 7 year old Isauter from R\u00e9union, it is J.M of Martinique who has most recently won the Spirits Selection 2016 Trophy at the awards held in Tequila, Mexico at the end of August. The jury just fell in love with the Armagnac Cask Finish (Tariquet), one of the major innovations in the world of rhum, which I have already spoken about at length, including in the video with la Revue du Vin de France.<\/p>\n

The jury comprised numerous international rum experts such as Ian Burrell, Carl Kanto (Demerara Distillers), Vicente Bastos Ribeiro (IBRAC), Emmanuel Becheau (JM), Christian Vergier (Arcane, Beach House, New Grove, Rivi\u00e8re du M\u00e2t, La Mauny & Trois Rivi\u00e8res), Jean-Luc Braud (ex Mount Gay) and of course from the Rumporter team, Cyrille Mald and yours truly. The 74 tasters from all four corners of the world placed another rum and two Brazilian eau-de-vies amongst their 18 grand revelations, to then select from these the three which would ultimately earn the sought-after Grand Gold Medal:<\/p>\n

\"gouveia\"<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\u2022 Saint James Fleur de Canne Aged Rum (Martinique) <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Ypioca 160 Commemorative Edition, 6 Year (with malt)<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Cacha\u00e7a Gouveia Brazil 5 Year<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Amongst the rums singled out for a Gold Medal<\/b>, the majority were rhums agricoles:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Branca Destila\u00e7\u00e3o Especial (agricultural rum from Madeira)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 the new Penny Blue VSOP released in May (Mauritius)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 the recent and still low-key Cliffton Estate Spiced (blended and bottled in Saint Kitts & Nevis)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Chairman\u2019s Reserve (St Lucia)<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

\"branca\"<\/p>\n

\u2022 Borgoe 8 years old (Suriname)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 La Hechiceria (Colombia)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Medellin 12 Year (Colombia)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Havana Club 7 Year (Cuba)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Malecon 1979 (Panama)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 La Mauny XO (Martinique)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 HSE 2005 Sauternes finish, VSOP & Black Sheriff (Martinique)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Trois Rivi\u00e8res : Cuv\u00e9e du Moulin & White rum 50% (Martinique)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Neisson White rum 55% (Martinique)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Cl\u00e9ment: Creole copper still white rum, Decanter XO, Single Cask, Canne Bleue & Select Barrel (Martinique)<\/span>
\n<\/p>\n

\u2022 Saint James 12 Year (Martinique)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Bally 7 Year (Martinique)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 JM 1999<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Arrang\u00e9s M\u00e9tiss Lime & Spiced (France)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Longueteau White rum 50% (Guadeloupe)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Bologne XO (Guadeloupe)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Charrette Sp\u00e9cial long drink (R\u00e9union)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Isautier Arrang\u00e9 Banana Flamb\u00e9 (R\u00e9union)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Rivi\u00e8re du M\u00e2t Opus 5 (R\u00e9union)<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Savanna Single Cask Rhum Agricole Vieux 12 years old Cask no. 820 2001 (R\u00e9union)<\/span><\/p>\n

The Silver medals <\/b>included the following brands:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"antillano_blanco\"<\/p>\n

\u2022 Martinique: La Favorite<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Guadeloupe: Karukera<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 R\u00e9union: Chatel<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 France: Breiz Ile, Punch d\u2019home and L\u2019Ar\u00f4m\u2019Arrang\u00e9<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Mauritius: Arcane, Bougainville, Labourdonnais, New Grove<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Sainte Lucia: Admiral Rodney<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Dominican Republic: Kirk & Sweeney 12 years old<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Barbados: St Nicholas Abbey White<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Trinidad: Delhaize<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 USA: spiced Gracia Madre from California<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Mexico: Antillano Blanco<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good news for rum in general and French rhum in particular: following last year\u2019s 7 year old Isauter from R\u00e9union, it is J.M of Martinique who has most recently won the Spirits Selection 2016 Trophy at the awards held in Tequila, Mexico at the end of August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5482],"tags":[5539,5536,1370,5535,5537,5538,1369],"class_list":["post-16410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-armagnac-cask-finish-en-2","tag-clement-en-2","tag-france","tag-hse-en-2","tag-jm-en-2","tag-neisson-en-2","tag-spirit-selection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}