Yes @bluestar, I'm not looking to do Rhum agricole primarily. I may do a small batch to create a seperate product, but I'm mostly going to be pressing the cane juice, then creating a syrup from the juice with big kettles/cookers. I'm aware that it may not be a necessary step, seeing as I will already have fresh cane juice and could easily make rhum agricole at that point, but it's the approach that I'm looking for in regards to profile from the distillate.
There's plenty out there in the way of describing rhum agricole vs. rum from molasses, but i'm mostly interested in rum from molasses vs rum from cane syrup.
Any additional thoughts?