Albion - Vintage 1989

Albion Vintage 1989

The first editions of Demerara de Velier were bottled in 1996, laying the groundwork for what would become affectionately known as the "era of Demerara de Velier". It really started in 2004, after Gargano was invited to Demerara Distillers Ltd's warehouses in Guyana to select tropics-aged casks to be bottled for the first time by Velier. This "era" only lasted until 2015, but it left a lasting legacy by having indelibly raised the profile of the stills and historic brands of Guyana rum, which have become some of the most sought-after in the world, including these editions of Velier.

This AN brand was distilled at the Uitvlugt distillery in 1989 and bottled in January 2008.

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  • 0.70L
  • 44°
  • British Guyana

Interestingly, the label states that the rum poured into the cask was distilled in a continuous wooden still . Although the Albion distillery did indeed own such a still, it was not transferred to the Uitvlugt distillery when it closed in 1968. Uitvlugt opted instead for their four-column French Savalle still to produce the "Albion" style rums. The continuous wooden still associated with Uitvlugt is the one they received from Enmore when it closed in 1993, but the vintage here predates that. So here we have an anomaly, because Uitvlugt was the distillery that took over the production of Albion rum. Either Uitvlugt had a wooden Coffey still in the 1980s that is not well documented, or the information on the box is wrong. Anyway, this is a special and extremely rare rum.

Uitvlugt closed in 2000, and all of its stills are now operated at the Diamond Distillery, including the four-column Savalle still, which continues to produce the AN brand...

One of 108 bottles.

Demerara Distillers LTD / Velier

In 2004, the company Velier de Luca Gargano acquired a stake in the distillery Demerara Distillers Ltd, the largest producer and stock of DEMERARA old rum in the world!

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