Les Frères de la Côte - La Favorite - Cuvée Navigation 2022 n°1 + Original White Miniature - Vintage 2021 - 54.7%
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.
The Navigation 2022 cuvée of Vieux Dynamique agricultural rum from La Favorite Distillery comes from rum from the 2021 harvest, barreled in 6 “Black Scale” barrels from Tonnellerie Navarre . It underwent dynamic aging at sea aboard the Très Hombres before being bottled in September 2022 by the Frères de la Côte in the cellar of Saint-Etienne, in the Loire. The bottle is accompanied by a mignonette of the white rum selected before the trip, in order to be able to taste the impact of the dynamic breeding.