SANTA TERESA 1796 - Speyside Whiskey Cask Finish - 46%
Hacienda Santa Teresa is located in the mountainous Aragua Valley of Venezuela . Founded in 1796, the estate cultivated coffee, cocoa, and sugarcane. In 1830, a young German merchant, Gustav Julius Vollmer , arrived in Venezuela and met a revolutionary woman named Panchita Rivas. The Vollmer family, their descendants, still run Santa Teresa today.
To commemorate the Hacienda's bicentennial in 1996, Alberto Vollmer Herrera, a fourth-generation member of the family, challenged the company to develop a rum that would harness all the mastery it had acquired over the first 200 years. Passed down from Maestro to Maestro, thanks to the Soléra method, every bottle of Santa Teresa 1796 contains juice from the very first cask of 1796, the original barrel, which has never been emptied. In fact, each time a bottle is drawn, the barrel is refilled with a slightly younger rum. And this is repeated on every bottle of Santa Teresa 1796.
This special series has been matured for a minimum of 13 months in casks that previously contained whisky from a Scottish distillery located in Speyside, giving the rum a smoky finish.
