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Bottle Details
Diamond SSN 1996 Velier 16 Year Old Rum
Due to the consolidation of the various Distilleries in Guyana and the relocation of a number stills from across the nation (specifically from Enmore and Uitvlugt) into the DDL Diamond Distillery complex, referring to a rum as Diamond is a somewhat confusing proposition.
This Velier bottling however is understood to have been distilled in the metal coffey still that can be considered to be the original Diamond stills,and bears the cask mark SSN.
Distilled in a Coffey still in 1996 and bottled April 2011.
The three SSN barrels - 8404, 8405 & 8407 - and were hand selected by Luca Gargano of Velier and produced 828 bottles after 16 years of tropical ageing and a whopping angel's share of 75%.
This bottle dates from an all too brief period in the history of rum when Luca/Vellier had seemingly unfettered access to the storehouses at DDL and produced a series of bottlings of sublime quality in may ways replicating success of early Samaroli and Moon bottlings.
Sadly the arrangement seems to have come to an end and it is unclear whether we will see the likes of these rums again.
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