Boogie Bottom Joe Cane Rhum Agricole
Boogie Bottom Joe Cane Rhum Agricole Alabama Rum Label

$50.00

Rhum Agricole is simple and practical. You do not refine all the flavor out of it and haul it around for tax loopholes, just squeeze the juice on the farm and let it be natural. If you have never chewed or sopped raw sugarcane, then you need to experience the difference in flavor. Prohibition created things like artificial rum flavor, but a JOE CANE RHUM CAKE will delight anybody….no I.D. cards required.

Your friendly bartender has concocted many recipes to use rum with things like spices and other fruit juices to flavor the beverage. Well, you will discover Rhum Agricole is good on the rocks. At Boogie Bottom Spirits, we age the rum in used Jack Daniels barrels, but that is because there are a lot of used Jack Daniels barrels available, simple and practical.

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Description

Distilled and bottled in Perdido, Alabama by Boogie Bottom Spirits for Perdido Vineyards.  This barrel-aged, full-bodied Rhum Agricole is closely tied to local Alabama agriculture.  Gold in color and rich in taste with a vanilla caramel finish.  The aroma rising from the glass is reminiscent of fresh cut sugarcane.  It was created and named to honor, not only the grower, but the history of Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama.

80 Proof

40% abv (alcohol by volume)

The Story of Joe Cane
Joe Cane is a native son of Sicilian immigrants who settled in Perdido, Alabama about 100 years ago, who grew up growing sugarcane and making molasses. Every November the sugarcane ripened and the family made molasses for soppin’ biscuits and something sweet in the school lunch box. You took the left-over biscuits from breakfast, punched a hole in it with your finger and filled it with home-made molasses. Krispy Krewe did not invent the filled donut idea.

A lot of things happen in 100 years like hurricanes and laws that can make life difficult, but difficulties are the Mother of Invention, i.e., fermenting sugarcane juice into sugarcane wine vinegar. Sugarcane vinegar is a staple of Southeast Asia, the Philippines, the Caribbean, Central America and other regions of the world where apples never existed.

Well, chewin’, soppin’, and sprinklin’ sugarcane is old-fashioned in Alabama, but distilling fresh sugarcane juice into Rhum Agricole is the rest of the story. Ah, those Frenchmen have a fanciful legacy of making spirits from almost any fruit. About 1834, some Frenchmen with sugarcane growing experience came into the Demopolis, Alabama area and bought out the lands of the Napoleanists exiles, aka, the legendary Vine & Olive Colony. Other folks in Alabama had different ideas about all this wine and rum making, so we have celebrated a lot of good funerals and elections to get Alabama sugarcane rum to you in the French tradition.

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