Hurricane Melissa made landfall in western Jamaica Tuesday afternoon as an extremely dangerous Category 5 hurricane, unleashing catastrophic winds, life-threatening storm surge and torrential rainfall across the island. As of 2 p.m. EDT, the eye of the storm was located just 20 miles south-southwest of Montego Bay, packing maximum sustained winds of 165 miles per […]
Above: The Seven Fathoms distillery in Georgetown (All photos by Rum Journal) A NUMBER OF RUMS have a unique raison d’être: high altitude, volcanic soil, aging done in more than one country. But a rum from the Cayman Islands has a very unusual one — it’s the world’s first spirit aged underwater. The rum, Seven […]
Although Bacardi is perhaps Puerto Rico’s more famous rum export, it’s Don Q that is the more popular at home, in terms of sales. And like Bacardi, the company has a long, storied history. Cataluña’s Don Juan Serrallés began the story by bringing a pot still to Puerto Rico from France, a tradition that has […]
GUATEMALA HAS RISEN to become one of the world’s rum production hubs — from Ron Zacapa to Zaya, which was made in the country until moving its production (and Guatemalan recipe) to Trinidad. But a longtime player is Ron Botran, which has the advantage of several area rums in that it is aged at a […]
