Papa Rouyo Blanc - Le Réjéton 2021

Profile: The Papa Rouyo Blanc - Le Réjéton 2021 at a glance

• Pleasure from collaborative work: Papa Rouyo builds on Guadeloupe's sugar cane heritage
• An ode to sugar cane: Le Réjéton features the R579 & B80.689
• Pot Still Distillation: Distilled from fresh sugar cane juice

Portrait: What makes the Papa Rouyo Blanc - Le Réjéton 2021 so special.

Charles Albert Ruscade aka Papa Rouyo worked his entire life as a sharecropper in Guadeloupe's lush sugar cane fields.  

After 60 years, he was denied his right to buy the land he cherished.  

After a long legal battle, Papa Rouyo's grandchildren, in close cooperation with the passionate "maîtres-canniers", producers who have lived in Le Moule for generations, refine Papa Rouyo's sugar cane legacy into what is probably its most beautiful form: Rhum Agricole de Terroir.

Papa Rouyo rums stand for transparency in the selection of raw materials as well as in the various stages of production.  

The fresh juice from partly self-cultivated sugar cane is distilled in alambique stills, which are rare for Guadeloupe.  

Due to its construction, an extremely mouth-filling, oily distillate with a fine, intense aroma is created, which unfolds authentically thanks to the lack of cold filtration or sugaring.

Papa Rouyo Blanc - Le Réjéton (engl. Descendant) is a noble rhum agricole with subtle herbal, spicy and sweet pastry notes.

Distilled: February to June 2021
Base: fresh sugar cane juice (R579 & B80.689)
Distillation: Pot Still
Not sweetened
Not chill-filtered

Tasting Notes: This is how the Papa Rouyo Blanc - Le Réjéton 2021 tastes

• Nose: at the beginning the scent of an open apothecary cabinet, followed by clearly brown cane sugar, black and red pepper and mineral aromas - some liquorice in the background
• Palate: mouth-filling and harmonious with strong notes of cardamom and star anise, tones of freshly baked and ground almonds
• Finish: powerful in the medium-long finish - the spicy notes are present