Damoiseau 1980 Velier Full Proof - bottled 2002

  • 60.30% |
  • 0.70L

A rhum Damoiseau distilled in 1980 and bottled in 2002. Velier was founded in Genoa by Casimir Chaix in 1947. It was originally a small, family-run business specializing in the import and distribution of wine and spirits. Luca Gargano, a former representative for Saint James and serious rum collecto…More info

Description du lot

  • Distillery: Bellevue (Distillerie)
  • Appellation: Rhum
  • Country/Region: France Guadeloupe
  • Quantity: 1 Bottle
  • Level: 1 top-shoulder
  • State: 1 very slightly marked label, 1 very slightly wrinkled label

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Damoiseau 1980 Velier Full Proof - bottled 2002

Cuvée presentation

A rhum Damoiseau distilled in 1980 and bottled in 2002. Velier was founded in Genoa by Casimir Chaix in 1947. It was originally a small, family-run business specializing in the import and distribution of wine and spirits. Luca Gargano, a former representative for Saint James and serious rum collector and enthusiast, bought the business in 1986 and began bottling whisky first in 1992 and then rum in 1996. It was in 1996 that Gargano bottled his first Demerara rums. In 2004, Gargano was invited to Guyana to select casks by his friend Yesu Persaud, then the CEO of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL). This partnership ended in 2015 when Persaud retired, but the rums bottled in the meantime became legendary. The same can be said for the Caroni casks he bought in 2005, two years after the distillery closed, following a visit to Trinidad with Fredi Marcarini the previous year to take photos. These two lines of bottlings built the renown of Velier, today also known for its work in other parts of the Caribbean, such as Barbados, Jamaica, Haiti and Marie-Galante. Rums selected by Velier are only ever aged in a tropical climate, which explains both their concentration and the high angels’ share. They are generally bottled at cask strength or just below. Finally, Gargano has, for several years, fought for stricter classification of rum, even proposing his own model, which has since been adopted by several of Velier’s partners.

The distillery Bellevue (Distillerie)

The Bellevue estate in Grande Terre, Guadeloupe, was founded in the 19th century by the Martinique family Rimbaud. It was bought in 1962 by Robert Damoiseau, a trained engineer who put himself heavily in debt to buy the property. Out of necessity, he initially produced sweets and jams, before soon turning to rum. His son Roger took over in 1968 and led the distillery into a period of prosperity that continues today under his children’‘s management. Now Guadeloupe’‘s largest distillery, Damoiseau produces rhum agricole and molasses-based rum.

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Detailed characteristics

  • Distillery: Bellevue (Distillerie)
  • Vintage: 1980
  • Bottler: Velier
  • Appellation: Rhum
  • Country/Region: France Guadeloupe
  • Alcohol percentage: 60.30 %
  • Volume: 0.70L
  • Quantity: 1 Bottle
  • Level: 1 top-shoulder
  • State: 1 very slightly marked label, 1 very slightly wrinkled label
  • Case: No
  • Origin: Private individual
  • Recoverable VAT: No
  • Color: Brown

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