Saint Benevolence Clairin Rum

Saint Benevolence is a Haitian clairin made at the Dorcinvil Distillery in Saint Michel de l'Attalaye, the town in Haiti's Artibonite department that clairin drinkers consider the spirit's grand cru, under master distiller Dr. Rev. Gueillant Dorcinvil. Clairin is Haiti's heritage cane spirit, made in small batches from local cane with no appellation rules, and Saint Benevolence follows the traditional method in full: a field blend of indigenous cane varieties is hand-harvested and crushed in a mechanized press, and the first-press juice is fermented spontaneously with native yeasts for eight to ten days. A second batch of first-press juice, bagasse and all, is boiled down into syrup and fermented separately with ambient yeast, and the juice and syrup washes are distilled separately in handmade 200-liter copper pot stills before being blended and bottled in Jacksonville, Florida. This is the unaged original, bottled at 50% ABV (100 proof) with nothing added. The producer describes fruit leather, overripe apple, green olive, sweet corn and flint on the nose, with roasted corn, key lime, guava skin and tamarind on the palate; VinePair scored it 92 points. It makes a daiquiri or Ti' Punch unlike anything from a column still.

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