{"id":34147,"date":"2018-09-10T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T05:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rumporter.com\/?p=34147"},"modified":"2020-01-20T18:57:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T17:57:27","slug":"plantation-rum-on-your-marks-get-set-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/plantation-rum-on-your-marks-get-set-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Plantation Rum : On your marks, get set, go!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thinking of the way Plantation communicates with their audience, everything is carefully thought out\u2026 The brand has a specific aura, their packaging is well-designed, their backstory nicely crafted: as a result, you always feel like opening their new bottles, which they release at a (not too) sustained pace.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Plantation<\/p>\n

This time round, let’s focus on the latest UFO created by Alexandre Gabriel. Xaymaca shows power and youth. A blend <\/span>of rums distilled in the old John Dore pot still at Long Pond and the Vendome at Clarendon<\/span>, it spent one to three years ageing in the tropics before spending about a year in the Old Continent for the celebrated Ferrand finish. <\/span><\/p>\n

In the blending phase, a 17-year-old Jamaican is used as a \u201cbonificateur\u201d (enhancer)! Like the new rums in the Extr\u00eame series, it<\/span> is denoted as \u201cSpecial Dry\u201d, meaning that it has no added sugar<\/span>. At Maison Ferrand, the weight problem in Western societies is taken very seriously!<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s now focus on \u201cmarks\u201d (Ed. Note: see the previous review on Plantation Extr\u00eame rums for more on marks.) We like transparency here. So beware! The truth may be a bit upsetting, but the faint-hearted are free to move on to the next paragraph! Let’s go back over the content in the container: Xaymaca is a blend of the Clarendon EMB and MLC marks, characterised as \u201canimalistic\u201d, and Long Pond VRW (4 wheel drive), STC^E (sic<\/i>) and ITP (I don’t have a joke for this one) marks, with their notes of very ripe tropical fruit!<\/span><\/p>\n

Triple your word score with these marks next time you play Scrabble\u2026 A bottle of Xaymaca will set you back only \u20ac35 (RRP). A bottle you’ll likely find in all cocktail bars in the autumn!<\/span><\/p>\n

Plantation Xaymaca
<\/strong>43% – 70cl<\/p>\n


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