SAVANNA - 12 years old - Single Cask n°973 - Finish Porto - Vintage 2003 - Bottled 2016 - 46%
The Savanna Distillery is located on Reunion Island . It was designed and built by Emile Hugot between 1948 and 1950. At the time, located in Saint Paul, it was annexed to the sugar refinery of the same name. In 1982, the Distillerie de Savanna acquired a distillation workshop whose productions were only intended for the manufacture of light rum for export, following the signing of a major rum supply contract with a German customer leader in its market. This acquisition was, for Distillerie de Savanna, the driving force behind the development of its rum technology, which multiplied, from that year on, the diversification and quality of its productions. Today, the Savanna Distillery exports the majority of its rum production to professionals. Like many rum distilleries, the Distillerie de Savanna is equipped with a discontinuous fermentation process, also called a "mother tank" process, made up of 8 fermenters of 100 m 3 and all of its satellites. This discontinuity is synonymous with obtaining a high quality product.
This 12-year-old Savanna is a traditional old rum from Reunion. This unique cask ( #973) was distilled in 2003 , put into Cognac casks on May 10, 2004 and then selected in July 2016. The rum was aged in a humid cellar in a tropical climate in casks that previously contained Port .