What is Solera ageing in Rum?

What exactly is it?

Solera ageing is an ageing system for rum, brandy or even wine in the olden days

In this system, barrels are stacked on top of each other, to allow cascade racking.That is, the change of liquids from one barrel to another by gravity.

One of the characteristics of this system is that it limits the percentage of the contents of the barrels that are taken out to fill other barrels. It is never done all at once with the entire contents of the barrel.

Barrels are removed from the barrels in order to fill them.

So, Where do the remaining two thirds go?Back to the cycle, but this time to the second row, as only new liquid goes into the first row, where the overtablas are located, and never refilled.

Why use solera ageing?

Thanks to this gravity racking, the rum acquires some fundamental points to enjoy it, such as freshness, balance, firmness, maturity and elegance.

In addition, thanks to this type of ageing, a good part of the rum never leaves the solera, which gives the bottled rum that we enjoy in our glasses key characteristics such as roundness and smoothness.

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