New Grove Savoir Faire Beau Plan 2007 (45%)

Beau Plan is the rum of the place where everything comes together: distillery, warehouses and the day-to-day reality behind New Grove. You can feel that in the style of this 2007. Where some aged rums lean mainly on oak and weight, Beau Plan moves instead toward energy, aroma and a profile that keeps shifting in the glass. It is a single-estate bottling, tied closely to one site in Mauritius from origin to bottle.

In the glass, it opens broadly and with real lift. Exotic yellow fruit leads, joined by mango and a buttery note that adds extra roundness. Underneath sits something mineral and lightly spiced, keeping the rum from becoming simply fruity. That combination is what makes it so distinctive: there is enough maturity here to feel serious, but the profile remains fresh and mobile.

This is a bottling that wins not through heaviness, but through character. The nose draws you in, the palate keeps unfolding, and the style has an individuality that is hard to confuse with a more classic darker rum. For drinkers who value liveliness and detail in premium rum, Beau Plan has a great deal to offer.