The Neisson distillery was founded in Carbet by the Neisson brothers in 1932. Jean, who was a trained chemical engineer, was committed to improving distillation techniques, as was reflected by the installation of the distillery’‘s Savalle still, originally built in 1938 and modified by Jean himself. The estate remains in family hands and is today run by Claudine and her son Grégory. In 2013, the estate began gradually converting to organic farming, supported by research into different cane varieties, plots and agricultural techniques. Neisson is rightly considered one of Martinique’‘s most innovative and ambitious distilleries. Neisson rum is instantly recognizable by the signature Zepol’‘Karé bottle with square shoulders.

Produced from a 2007 harvest and distillation, this agricole rum was then aged for nearly ten years in a bourbon cask at the Carbet distillery, before being vatted on 13 February 2017. It was bottled in March of the same year at the request of Velier’’s CEO Luca Gargano, producing 528 cask strength bottlings for the range created to mark the 70th anniversary of the Italian company.