Porfidio Single Cane - Plata 70cl Bottle

Product Description

Colour: Clear Crystal. Nose: Vanilla & coconut milk. Palate: Smooth honey & flowery touch. Finish: Pure, clean & gentle sugary finish. Destileria Porfidio, founded in the early 90s by Martin Grassl, was renowned the world over until recently as the producer of the number one brand of pure agave tequila, a range of spirits of exceptional quality. However, in April 2003 Porfidio released his 1998 vintage Porfidio Rum, a finest top quality pure cane rum, onto the world market. This exciting addition to its traditional portfolio of spirits, which is already acclaimed internationally by liquor connoisseurs, is the result of years of research into production & distillation processes of high quality rum. Destileria Porfidio will never compromise on the quality of the ingredients it demands for its pure cane Porfidio Rum. The vast majority of ordinary rum available is made from molasses, a cheap by-product of sugar refining. Molasses consists of indirect cane sugars which can not be converted into granulated sugar for the market, but can be used for industrial alcohol production. Premium single cane rum, by stark contrast, is made from freshly pressed sugar cane juice, undiluted & 100% pure. 30 to 40 kilos of fresh sugar cane are required to produce just one litre of this high quality cane spirit. For finest top quality rum, the sugar cane must be cut & processed within two days to ensure the best flavour. Fortunately for them, sugar cane flourishes in the sun-drenched soils of the coastal state of Nayarit, just one hour's drive from their facility at Puerto Vallarta. The cane is cut & loaded immediately onto trucks bound for Destileria Porfidio, leaving no time for the cane to degrade in the hot sunshine. Harvesting is done entirely by hand using the traditional machete, a long curved knife whose blade is honed to lethal sharpness. By avoiding the use of mechanical harvesters the expert pickers are able to select only the healthy & mature sugar cane plants for harvest. Mechanised harvesting results in a mixture of mature & immature, healthy & infected, good & bad sugar cane that produces, ultimately, a rum of very average quality. Sugar cane can only be harvested from December to June & there is only one harvest per year. (By contrast, molasses-based rum can be produced throughout the year, since the raw molasses can be stored in tanks or sacks, like potatoes, for several months) Once the three-metre high sugar cane plants have been h&-cut, again using a machete, into 50cm sections, these small pieces are ground down into a cane fibre mash which is pressed hydraulically to extract the cane juices. Pressing is a time-consuming process. Of each kilo of freshly harvested sugar cane, 70% is fibre & just 30% is juice! As with ultra-premium olive oil, only the first pressing of the cane fibre is used for the production of Porfidio single cane rum. In addition, unlike many of their competitors, they do not dilute their freshly squeezed juice during the pressing, as this would greatly reduce the quality of the sugar cane juice. The juice derived from mature sugar cane plants contains natural sugar cane sugar, otherwise used for the production of granulated sugar, which is the basis for the subsequent fermentation process. The cane juice is creamy in colour, similar in appearance to pressed white wine grapes. During fermentation the natural cane sugar contained within the juices is transformed into alcohol by tiny micro-organisms. These 'good' bacteria convert the sugar into wine. If 'bad' bacteria are allowed to get into the fermentation tanks they will turn the cane juices into vinegar. Destileria Porfidio uses a temperature & humidity controlled, impeccably clean environment in which case the fermentation process requires four days, as opposed to the one day, open air solution used by many producers. The fermented sugar cane wine has an alcoholic content of only 8% alcohol by volume. The fermented cane juice is distilled three times, in traditional alambic pots, separating the heads & the tails at each distillation & only keeping the heart of each distillate. Plata Triple-Distilled at 45% alcohol by volume is also the starting point for the ageing process which will over time produce Porfidio Anejo Single-Barrel Rum.