Clairin Pignon - Méles Augustin Normil

Clairin Pignon Méles Augustin Normil

We are proud to introduce Patrick St Surin who makes Clairin (Haiti's traditional rum) in the most traditional way possible: harvesting his own sugar cane or using sugar cane syrup made in-house or nearby, indigenous yeast fermentations and distillation in small stills, the style of which has been used since the 1500s.

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  • 0.75L
  • 51°
  • White
  • Haiti

Essentially, these dsitillats express the raw, natural beauty of Haiti. Patrick St. Surin, who lives at the Carrefour des Pères, a small town about thirty minutes by car from Cap-Haïtien. Here, the plateau that forms much of the middle of the island gives way to the plains that reach the Caribbean Sea to the north. He cultivates just over ten hectares of sugar cane, and has been distilling since 2012, when he decided against his father's wishes to stay in his hometown to start his business. As Patrick says, he didn't see success as an exit from Haiti. Instead, he saw the opportunity to succeed on his own terms.

The fields surrounding the distillery are replenished with the aforementioned ten hectares of sugar cane planted with local sugarcane varieties like Medialande, Pete Coca, Zariete grown by Patrick. On top of that, there are a few acres cultivated by neighbors that allow him to harvest cane in exchange for allowing their cattle and goats to graze freely around the property. Once the cane is harvested - the months considered to produce the highest quality sugar cane are February-mars and July-August - it is brought back to the distillery by a donkey and immediately crushed. The juice is then poured manually into large open-air fermenters called rooms where a small addition of sugarcane syrup is added in the local tradition. Fermentations occur naturally and usually take 10 to 15 days. From there, the fermented cane juice is loaded into a small still and is distilled twice, rested, and then bottled by hand. The result is one of the purest expressions of sugar cane we have ever tasted.

Clairin

Made only in Haiti, Clairin is a brandy produced from sugar cane, just like agricultural rum.

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