Designed specifically for high-end cocktails, Eminence is a white rum with a difference. While most producers use a high proportion of unaged or very young spirit to create their white rums, Hattiers use much older rums – the oldest components in the blend are 8 years old – and then remove the colour using carbon filters.
This results in a smoother spirit with more depth of flavour and character, making it also a joy to sip neat. Crafted using old rums from Barbados, Australia and Trinidad, combined with unaged components from three different Jamaican distilleries, Eminence is a creamy white rum with notes of pineapple, fudge, nectarine, grass, banana chips, nougat, walnut oil and vanilla custard.
It makes an exceptional Daiquiri.
Out of all the spirits, rum probably has the most problematic history, intrinsically tied to colonialism and the exploitation of people and the environment. However, in world that’s becoming far more conscious of the damage we do, a new breed of rum producers has emerged. Hattiers is one of the brands at the vanguard of that movement. Plastic-free from day one, they support their local community, they’re planting a broadleaf native woodland to offset their environmental impact, they’ve made a commitment to Net Zero Carbon by the end of 2021, and they’re the world’s second certified B Corp rum. B Corps are a growing and inspirational community of companies that use business as a force for good, putting people and the planet before profit, thus making them the savvy choice for conscious consumers.
Hattiers is an independent business that imports premium tropically aged rums from around the world. In Devon, those rums are expertly blended at a punchy 60-70% ABV to create something even greater than the sum of its parts, before reducing the alcohol level down using soft water filtered through the granite of Dartmoor. This water is one of the key elements that makes Hattiers Rum so damned drinkable. The company experimented with 13 different water sources before settling on a well near the village of Beesands. Their world-class rums contain no added colourants and are non-chill filtered, but what swung it for us was finding out that the entire range is built on a base of 8-year-old rum distilled by the legendary Richard Seale at Barbados’ Foursquare – the five-time consecutive winner of the International Spirits Challenge’s “Rum Producer of the Year”.
