CDI - East India Company

Compagnie des Indes is a so-called “independent bottler”. The company was started by the Frenchman Florent Beuchet, and draws inspiration from the British East India Company, which in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries imported rare and exotic goods from all over the world to Europe. Similarly, Florent finds casks from brokers and distilleries throughout the rum world – from Florida to Jamaica, Fiji and Indonesia – and bottles them under the Compagnie des Indes brand. Many are bottled as “single casks”, but CDI also releases well-composed blends.

For the past few years, the rest of Europe has been looking enviously at Denmark when Florent serves the annual batch of exclusive, Danish single cask bottlings. These are always bottled at cask strength and without added colour or sugar – something that makes rum nerds the world over salivate! However, you can also find sweeter and easier-drinking rums in the series of trans-Caribbean blends; for example Latino and Caraïbes. There is something for every taste here.