RENEGADE Pre Cask New Bacolet

The Renegade rum distillery: a modern marvel
precision-engineered to exalt the individuality of the terroirs, the purity of prolonged fermentation, and thoughtful, rigorous distillation.

New Bacolet Terroir: More rugged than neighbouring Vieux Bacolet, the natural amphitheatre of New Bacolet is a steep-sided, sun-scorched, south-facing bowl, with drought-sensitive cane on the weathered upper slopes and lush growth on the deep, rich colluvial soils below - a classic exploration of terroir. For this rum, we harvested the sucrose-rich variety we call 'Lacalome Red' from the 'colline aux chèvres' field, which lies in the terroir known as Haute Combe.

New Bacolet is enclosed and sheltered by forest to the north, and slopes down to the south. Being based along a mountainside, which is steeper than most of our farms, excavation of the land was the most difficult. Four terroirs were identified covering 21 hectares, and we planted the Yellow Lady and Lacalome Red varieties.