Batiste Ecoiste Blanc Rhum

Batiste calls itself Earth's favorite cocktail rhum, and the claim rests on real numbers: it's the first American craft rum with a carbon-negative production cycle, offsetting roughly three kilograms of CO2 per bottle, because growing sugarcane pulls more carbon from the air than the distilling releases. Founded in 2008 by spirits veterans Tristan Mermin and Jon Lawson, it's the only American rum made from single-origin fresh sugarcane juice — rhum agricole — rather than molasses. The cane is grown, pressed, fermented, and distilled on Marie-Galante, the small island south of Guadeloupe inside the French agricole denomination, at a solar-powered plantation distillery; the fresh juice ferments 36 hours and runs once through a steam-heated column still with a copper top, preserving more of the cane's natural flavor than multiple distillations would. The distillate then ships to Napa, California, where it's proofed and bottled unaged at 80 proof with no sugar, flavor, or color added. Expect a crystal-clear pour with sweet cane, fresh-cut grass, lemon, and the faint petrol-and-olive edge that marks true agricole on the nose, opening into a light, bright, grassy palate with a short, clean finish. Drinkhacker found it light and classic in the style. Honest note: agricole is an acquired taste, and this is the real thing. Built for the Ti' Punch, a grassy daiquiri, or a mojito that tastes like cane rather than sugar.

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