Clairin is considered the national spirit of Haiti and is a spirit produced in a similar way to agricultural rum, generally by a single local distiller using sugarcane from the fields of their own and adjacent village. Largely hidden from the world for nearly 200 years, clairin was introduced to the world by Italian distributors, Velier, after Luca Gargano and Daniele Biondi discovered these distillers during a trip to Haiti in 2012.

The Arawaks distillery was founded by Danois Vaval in 1947 and is today managed by his son Fritz. It is located in Cavaillon and owns 20 hectares of Madame Meuze sugar cane. It operates a continuous Creole column still equipped with ten plates and a homemade condenser made from a petrol can. The spirit is then bottled at its still strength of 50-55% ABV.

This was distilled in 2015 and aged for 6 years before being bottled to celebrate the 15th anniversary of La Maison du Whiskey in Singapore.

Velier was founded by Casimir Chaix in Genoa in 1947 as an importer and distributor of wines and spirits. In the 1980s they were still a small family business with fewer than ten employees. That all changed in 1986 when it was developed by Luca Gargano, a former Saint James brand ambassador who was still in his twenties at the time. Under his direction, they selected their first single cask whiskeys in 1992 and their first rum in 1996. In the decades since, Velier has become one of the most collectible brands in the industry, and Gargano has positioned them as one of the leading authorities and rum bottlers anywhere in the world.

70cl

46.4% Vol.