Camus Cognac has lined up the release of a Cognac that has spent almost 50 days at sea before spending a year maturing further in the Caribbean.

A total of 4,500 bottles of Camus Caribbean Expedition will be available later this year

Camus Caribbean Expedition was first mooted at the end of 2018. The family-owned Cognac producer arranged for ten barrels of the French spirit to be transported by sailboat across the Atlantic to the Foursquare distillery on Barbados.

The journey lasted 45 days.

Despite initially expecting 5,000 bottles from the project, Camus said today a total of 4,500 individually-numbered bottles will go on sale in September. Carrying a price of EUR109 (US$123) each, Camus Caribbean Expedition, which has an abv of 45.3%, will be offered in an online presale from 1 to 27 September. Any remaining units will then go to selected specialist spirits retailers.

"The unique maturation of Camus Caribbean Expedition Cognac is the result of two distinctive steps highly influencing its aromatic profile, happening over the course of a year-and-a-half between the Atlantic Ocean and the island of Barbados," the company said today. "The continuous shaking and stirring of the Cognac inside the barrel, caused by the movement of the ship while sailing, amplified the contact between each molecule of the liquid and the wood staves ... .

"This experiment clearly shows a more significant aromatic evolution of the liquid left for one year in Barbados due to the higher temperature and humidity of tropical climate responsible for accelerating normal esterification processes. The array of flavours obtainedthrough this process represents an exclusive primacy in the history of Cognac."

Earlier this year, Camus confirmed the departure of CMO Jean-Dominque Andreu.

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