Barbary Coast Rhum Agricole

Barbary Coast is rhum agricole made in San Francisco — by Raff Distillerie on Treasure Island, named for the notorious 19th-century red-light district that once ran along the city's waterfront. Agricole is the French Caribbean style of rum distilled from fresh sugarcane juice rather than molasses, drier and grassier than the mainstream, and the tradition dates to the moment cheap European beet sugar collapsed the cane market and Martinique's planters started turning their whole harvest into spirit instead. Raff sources sugarcane juice from Colombia, ferments the entire juice, distills it to high proof, and ages the result entirely in re-charred bourbon barrels — a distinctly American twist on a French-Caribbean form. Expect a sweet, cane-forward nose, opening into an earthy, grassy palate with banana and tropical fruit and a gentle vanilla-and-char note from the barrel, finishing warm. Old Town Tequila calls the sensory impact matchless; it's a rum built to show what fresh cane does when it isn't hiding behind molasses. For drinkers who love Rhum J.M or Clément, this is the Northern California cousin — and for anyone who's never had agricole, a friendly entry point. Superb in a Ti' Punch with lime and cane syrup, a grassy daiquiri, or a Rum Old Fashioned. Bay Area craft, French-Caribbean method, Colombian cane.

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