Gaston Hardy

Rum labels

Rhum Blanc

109 x 150 mm (4.3" x 5.9")

Rhum Agricole Blanc

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Rhum Blanc

42 x 56 mm (1.7" x 2.2")

Rhum Paille

110 x 151 mm (4.3" x 5.9")

Rhum Agricole Paille

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Tartane Rhum Vieux

95 x 122 mm (3.7" x 4.8")

History

Bonneville family built near Tartane a sugar mill with distillery in 1830. In 1860 installed Emilien Bonneville a steam engine, which was used up to 1950, untill the sugar mil was working. Mr. Bonneville sold the distillery in 1905 to Gaston Hardy (born in 1870). Hardy family owns the distillery until today.

[Source: Office de Tourisme de Trinite (Martinique), cited 2002]

The picturesque small distillery developed by Gaston Hardy and then by his son Jean Claude in Tartane produced a few hundred hectolitres per year. Production was stopped, but the brand name Hardy remains on the market; the rum is distilled in Saint James distillery.

[Source: Histoire du Rhum by Alain Huetz de Lemps, 1997, p.218]

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Here are full texts from the labels

mq207: Medaille d or Marseille 1923; 50% Vol.; Garanti d origine; D; Rhum Blanc de plantation Tartane G. Hardy; Prprietaire eleveur depuis 1830 distille, mis en bouteille au domaine presqu ile de la caravelle; 100 cl; Martinique; Medaille d argent Paris 1936

mq_6: Rhum Agricole Blanc

mq325: Appellation d' Origine; Rhum Blanc; 55%; Tartane; Rhum Agricole de la Martinique; 5 cl; G. Hardy, distillateur depuis 1830; Domaine de Neuville; Presque ile de la Caravelle; EMB 97209 A

mq200: Medaille d'or Marseille 1923; 50% vol.; Rhum Paille Pur Agricole Tartane 50%; G.Hardy distille, mis en bouteille a la presqu'ile de la caravelle Martinique; 100 cl; medaille d'argent Paris 1936

mq_7: Rhum Agricole Paille

mq470: Rhum Agricole de la Martinique vieilli en Futs de Chene; Tartane Rhum Vieux; Appellation d'Origine Controlée; A.O.C. Martinique; G. Hardy; Alc 45% vol; Propriétaire: SCI Tartane, Presquile de la Caravelle, 97220 Trinite; 70 cl; EMB 97209A