Rhum Clement Banana Liqueur

Bana Canne is the banana liqueur from Rhum Clément of Le François, Martinique, built on the two crops that have defined the island's agriculture, sugarcane and bananas, which are grown in rotation on the Clément estate to refresh the soil. The base is unaged rhum agricole, distilled from fresh sugarcane juice on a Creole copper column still at the Fonds-Préville distillery, and the banana comes from a collaboration with Kadalys, a women-owned Martinican company specializing in upcycled bananas: surplus estate-grown Cavendish bananas, picked semi-ripe before they would be discarded, are steeped into an extract using a low-energy process, then blended with the rhum and sweetened with sugarcane syrup at Habitation Clément, where it is bottled at 25% ABV in a 700ml. Because the fruit goes in semi-ripe, it tastes like fresh banana rather than candy: the importer's notes describe plantain, banana chips, pear skin and a hint of celery root on the nose, an oily, slightly tannic palate of ripe banana and muscat grape, and a dry, earthy finish of grass and stone-fruit kernel. It is meant as a cocktail modifier and works anywhere a crème de banane would, from a rum Old Fashioned to a Jungle Bird riff.

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