Old gears and equipment in the Saint James yard
Saint James tasting room and museum
1934 bottle
Old advertisements in the tasting room
Scale detail
Old Saint James advert
Marc Sassier leading us to the aging warehouses
Some old cases of Héritiers Madkaud just hanging out in the driveway
Bats!
This photo doesn’t even remotely capture the number of bats in this warehouse - there were probably 100 all told, mostly hiding the deeper, darker parts of the building.
Marc Sassier showing us the different oak holding tanks for specific blends
Barrel aging J. Bally
48 barrels were put down in Jan 2017 of Fleur de Canne
Notice the bat guano on the sign (!)
More old barrels
Bats and all.
Saint James uses mostly "old barrels," rarely employing new make barrels
tasting from the holding tanks
Quintessence
Holding tanks
part of a still
Brazilian still built in 1996, specifically for Saint James
Base of five of the six stills at the distillery
Five of six stills, with condensers visible above
View from over the fermentation tanks.
Big still, also from Brazil
M. Sassier writing us a prescription for rhum
Truck scale
Cut cane holding area
Disassembled cane claw
Used to move cut cane into the crushers
Rhum prescription
Distillerie as viewed from the side
Cane loading area
Disassembled cane crusher towers, moulins and walkways
Creole column in the Musée du Rhum
"Distilling apparatus" at Saint James
Photo date unknown.