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Hotel Tracker: You Can Stay at the SLS Cancun for $154 a Night

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Hotel Tracker found a notable rate on Google Hotels at SLS Cancun: rooms starting at about $154 per night during the first week of February. That’s an unusually low price for this design-forward beachfront hotel in the heart of winter season. SLS Cancun is set in the Puerto Cancún community, a quieter, more polished pocket just north of […]

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Martinique, Puerto Rico Top Winners at 2020 Caribbean Rum Awards in St Barth

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There’s a new epicenter in the world of Caribbean rum: the island of St Barth.  In a turbulent year around the world, the island played host to the ultimate rum experience of 2020: the Caribbean Rum Awards and St Barth Rum Festival, which concluded this weekend.  This year’s third annual Caribbean Rum Awards drew a […]

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Why the Caribbean's Top Rum Makers Are Coming to St Barth

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A group of the most legendary rum makers in the Caribbean is heading to St Barth in November for the Caribbean’s ultimate rum experience.  This year’s Caribbean Rum Awards and St Barth Rum Festival will gather a who’s who of the rum world, including Mount Gay’s Trudiann Branker, Rhum Neisson’s Gregory Vernant; Rhum Karukera’s Gregoire Hayot and […]

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The 2020 Caribbean Rum Awards Are Set for November in St Barth

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The Caribbean’s ultimate rum experience is returning this Nov. 10-15, 2020 in St Barth.  The 2020 edition of Caribbean Journal’s Caribbean Rum Awards and the St Barth Rum Festival, a week-long celebration of the Caribbean’s finest rum, will return to the Caribbean capital of luxury.  “This year’s Caribbean Rum Awards will again honor the best […]


Why the Caribbean's Top Rum Makers Are Coming to St Barth

The eastern Atlantic coast of Martinique is full of winding roads and banana trees, a place of imposing villas and plantations and endless fields of sugarcane.  And here, hidden in an old stone estate up a hillside on the N6 highway, is one of the great secrets of the world of Caribbean rum: the Habitation […]

Rum Journal: Cruzan Single Barrel, the Essence of St Croix

St Croix changes as you drive along its green curves, beaches giving way to lush hills and farmland and ocean cliffs.  It’s an island that rewards those who dig deeper, whether you’re walking the old alleys of Christiansted or bowing your head through a branched tunnel to the golden sands of Shoys.  It’s an island […]

Rum Journal: A Glass of Rhum Saint James, a Journey to Martinique

I take a sip of the Rhum Saint James and I am instantly in Martinique.  Therein lies the transportive power of rum, a, transcendent gift bequeathed to no other spirit in the world.  There’s just something about rum, about Caribbean rum, about how it can take you away, even if for just a delightful, prolonged […]

Rum Journal: In Puerto Rico, the History of a Little Barrel

By Alexander Britell He would carry it around in a small wooden barrel, rum in arm, giving tastes to his friends and those who wished to try it. Don Pedro Fernandez, a third-generation sugarcane grower in Puerto Rico, had studied the art of brandy and cognac distillation in France and returned to the island with […]

Rum Journal: A Special Rum from Guadeloupe’s Reimonenq

There are rums, there are special rums and then there are rums for rum drinkers. The third category isn’t for everyone, filled with rums of unique character, of sometimes too much strength, of uncanny personality. That brings us to a rum from one of Guadeloupe’s venerable distilleries, Reimonenq. Reimonenq has been putting out agricole expressions […]

Rum Journal: A Conversation With Robert Burr

If you like rum, if you’ve found your way into the mysterious, wonderful world of rum, it’s likely you’ve come across the name Robert Burr. For years, Burr has been one of the world’s greatest champions of rum, spreading its gospel around the world, telling the story of the spirit with the essential Rob’s Rum […]

Rum Journal: A Concerto From Guadeloupe’s Longueteau

By Alexander Britell In recent years, the once-mysterious world of rhum agricole has opened itself to rum lovers, with its terroir and endless sophistication charming palates around the world. Much of that, however, has been the sublime rhum agricole from the French Caribbean island of Martinique, led by a global push from one of its […]

Rum Journal: From the Bahamas, a Tequila-Finished Rum

You can call it cask-finishing or barrel finishing or secondary aging or whatever you like. But it’s no secret that using the barrels that once held other spirits to give different personalities to rum is an increasingly prominent trend in the rum world. It’s one that remains best executed in Martinique, where distilleries like Rhum […]