Clairin Spirit Of Haiti
What is Clairin considered the Haitian spirit made famous by rum ambassador Luca Gargano?
Clairin is an "agricultural" rum, that is, it is obtained from pure sugar cane juice (and not from molasses diluted in water, as happens with the product called "industrial rum").
It is very widespread in Haiti, because it is considered "the people's rum", also linked to the religious rites of voodoo and the popular cockfights.
The Haitian Clairin are the first Haitian Slow Food Presidium, launched to accompany the work of rediscovery and valorization of the Traditional Haitian Clairin carried out by Velier and Luca Gargano since 2012.
The Presidium was created with the aim of safeguarding Traditional Clairin, Haiti's unique heritage, and protecting the Haitian agricultural system, still uncontaminated by synthetic chemistry, giving Clairin producers the role of "defenders of the territory": their choices in terms of production they will in fact influence the future of Haiti.
The Clairin selected and bottled by Velier reflect the extraordinary diversity of Haitian products, both for the different distillation and fermentation techniques - spontaneous, without selected yeasts and no filtration - and for the original, non-hybridized cane varieties, without any use of chemistry in agriculture.
To enter the Velier range, clairins must respect some rigorous rules, a real protocol:
- Sugarcane varieties must be native and not hybrid
- Their cultivation must be organic and follow traditional production techniques, without the use of synthetic chemicals (herbicides, fertilizers, fungicides...)
- Harvesting must be done by hand
- The transport of sugar cane must be the ancient one (on the back of a mule or on carts pulled by bulls)
- The fermentation of sugar cane juice must take place exclusively through natural yeasts, without the addition of industrial yeasts, without dilution with water, and must last at least 120 hours
- Distillation must take place inside stills with a maximum of 5 copper plates in direct contact with the fire
- The distillate must be bottled at the still's output grade
- Bottling must take place in Haiti.
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