Open the terrace door and the pool is already there, a few feet from the bed, surrounded by tropical gardens or facing a beach, a volcano or a pair of volcanic peaks. You leave your book on the lounger. You order lunch to the room. You swim before dinner. There is no hunt for an […]
Above: Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina and Edrington CEO Ian Curle By the Caribbean Journal staff Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina met this week with Ian Curle, Chief Executive Officer of Scotland’s The Edrington Group. Edrington owns approximately 60 percent of Dominican rum brand Brugal, a stake which it acquired in 2008. In Curle’s first […]
LIKE SEVERAL of the Caribbean’s best rums, the story of the Dominican Republic’s Ron Brugal begins in Spain. In this case, it was Andres Brugal Montaner, a native of the Spanish city of Sitges, who moved to Santiago de Cuba and, ultimately, the Dominican Republic’s Puerto Plata in the mid-19th century. The house has become […]
