Claudine Neisson-Vernant

The history of rum is the history of the Caribbean. In Martinique, rum is part of the landscape of daily life, and for years the Neisson distillery in Carbet has epitomized that, as family run, locally-focused operation. Helping to hold it all together is family matriarch Claudine Neisson-Vernant, who’s stewarded the place into one of the island’s most love operations — and one with a growing presence abroad.