Pere Labat Hors d'Age 8 Year Old Rum
Pere Labat Hors d’Age 8 Year Old Rum is a rhum agricole vieux from Distillerie Poisson on Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe, distilled from fresh-pressed sugarcane juice and aged eight years in the tropical island climate in 200L oak barrels, bottled at 42% ABV in a 750mL bottle with no additives. Poisson is the oldest distillery on Marie-Galante, set on a 1,300-acre estate, and Hors d’Age is the top of its regular range — eight Caribbean years cost each cask roughly 40% of its volume to evaporation. It is available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor.
- Proof / ABV: 84 proof (42% ABV)
- Size: 750mL
- Age: 8 years in 200L oak barrels, tropical aging
- Base: Fresh-pressed sugarcane juice (rhum agricole)
- Producer: Distillerie Poisson, Marie-Galante
- Origin: Guadeloupe
Eight Tropical Years on Marie-Galante
Pere Labat is named for Pere Jean-Baptiste Labat, the Dominican friar who modernized rum distillation in the French Antilles around 1700, and the distillery has made rhum from estate and locally grown cane since the early 1900s. Hand-cut cane is crushed within hours, fermented on fresh juice and run through a red-copper Creole column still dating to 1916. Explore more agricole and cane-juice styles in our rum collection and across our full spirits shelves.
Tasting Notes
Deep and polished: the pepper and green cane of young Marie-Galante rhum folded into caramel, tobacco, dried fruit and toasted wood, with a long, warm finish.
How to Enjoy
A sipping rhum — pour it neat or with a single drop of water and give it time in the glass. Browse more contemplative pours among our rare and top shelf bottles.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is rhum agricole?
Rum distilled from fresh-pressed sugarcane juice rather than molasses, in the French Caribbean tradition — grassier, drier and more terroir-driven than molasses rum.
How long is Hors d'Age aged?
Eight years in 200L oak barrels in Marie-Galante's tropical climate, losing about 40% of each cask to evaporation.
What proof is it?
42% ABV (84 proof) in a 750mL bottle, with no additives.
Order Pere Labat Hors d'Age from Del Mesa Liquor in San Diego, CA — the pinnacle of the regular Poisson range.