Barbancourt is the calling card for Haitin rhum agricole, rhum being French for rum. Rhum agricole is made from hand-harvested cane sugar. At Barbancourt, this 15-Year Rhum is put through a column still then transferred to an alembic pot still. It is aged in French Limousin oak: 7,000-liter casks for the first year, 400-liter casks for seven years then finally to 200-liter (smaller than the typical red wine aging barrel) for the final seven years.
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