Fall in the Caribbean islands feels like insider season. The light softens, the water turns impossibly clear, and the islands exhale into a quieter cadence. Beach chairs sit unclaimed at sunrise. Ferry captains swap stories on the dock. Barbecues drift across the sand, and festival posters begin to appear on café walls. It’s a shoulder […]
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 […]
By Alexander Britell THERE’S A popular restaurant in the onetime library of a very old Dominican abbey in the Dutch city of Zwolle. It’s called “The Library,” and it’s won a Michelin star every year since 1993 — now boasting three of them — one of fewer than 200 such restaurants on the planet to do […]
By the Caribbean Journal staff Long one of the Caribbean’s top rum-producing countries, the island of Grenada is about to get a major new addition. United Kingdom-based Renegade Rum has officially broken ground on its new Renegade Rum Distillery in the parish of St Andrew on the island’s east coast. The company will use locally-grown […]
