Les Frères de la Côte - La Favorite - Cuvée Navigation 2021 n°2 - Vintage 2020 - 51.4%
The Brothers of the Coast are a group of importers/bottlers of products exclusively transported by sailboats . The company was created in 2015 by two French sailboat captains: Raphaël and François Mangin . The Rhums Frères de la Côte have been bottled since 2017 in their depot located in Saint-Etienne in the Loire. They sail on the Très Hombres , a 32-meter Brigantine-type sailboat, without engine, for 35 tons of cargo. Since 2010, the Très Hombres has completed 12 Atlantic rotations from its home port in the Netherlands. In 2019, a new company ( La Compagnie des Frères de la Côte ) was created with the aim of rehabilitating the sailboat Zeehaen , Brigantine of more than 45 meters for 120 tons of cargo. The concept is to develop a fleet of cargo sailboats offering an alternative to current transport , and to restore a more human value to the transport of transatlantic goods with a trade closer to ecology than to the economy.
For the fourth consecutive year, a selection of La Favorite agricultural rum was loaded on board the Très Hombres. This is a second batch of 900 liters of amber rum from the 2019 harvest having stayed in Martinique for 17 months in old American oak barrels, then intoned into barrels having contained Madeira wines , followed by 8 months resting in the Stéphanois cellar, still in ex-Madeira barrels, and resting for 1 month in stainless steel vats for the 4 barrels.