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Sandals Is Opening a Beaches All-Inclusive Resort in St Vincent and the Grenadines 

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Sandals is opening a new Beaches resort in St Vincent and the Grenadines, Caribbean Journal has learned.  Sandals and Beaches Executive Chairman Adam Stewart made the revelation during the Skift Global Forum this week.  The new resort is a 360-room all-inclusive development planned for Mount Wynne Beach on the western coast of St Vincent – […]

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A Great Reason to Visit St Barth in November

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Early November is one of the best times to visit the remarkable French Caribbean island of St Barth.  You won’t find the crowds of December and January, but the villas, hotels, restaurants and hotspots are open. (Here’s all you need to know about where to stay on the island and here’s how to get there).  […]

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Rum Journal: A 15-Year Vintage From Martinique

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It’s never easy for lovers of rhum agricole in the United States.  Supply of the cane-juice nectar of the French Caribbean has always been scant in America, with just a few brands that have even entered the market in the last decade.  The two companies with the biggest presence have always been Martinique’s Rhum Clement […]

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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 […]


Rum Journal: A 15-Year Vintage From Martinique

As the rum category has grown in recent years, so, too has the number of what we like to call “aftermarket” rums — that is, rums brought from the Caribbean and bottled or branded somewhere else — sometimes losing a bit of their identity in the process.  That’s not to say many (most, even) of these […]

Rum Journal: Guadeloupe's Damoiseau Cuvée Spéciale

While the bright yellow label of Rhum Bologne is in many ways synonymous with the ti’ punch (at least in Guadeloupe), when it comes to the archipelago’s aged rum, it’s Rhum Damoiseau that has the biggest presence.  The Le Moule area rum brand has been making rhum agricole since 1942, and it puts out what […]

From The Bahamas to St Thomas, the Caribbean's Most Famous Cocktails

Some of the most famous cocktails in the world originated in the Caribbean, and while they come in a variety of tastes and traditions, they all share one common ingredient: rum. Here are some of our favorite Caribbean cocktails and how you can make them at home. Piña Colada, Caribe Hilton The Piña Colada is […]

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 […]

In St Barth, Finding The Rhythm of Caribbean Rum

My journey started with the thrill of the prop plane nosing down for a “bombs away” landing at the Gustaf III airport runway, one of the shortest in the world, as the landing gear of the Tradewind Aviation plane hammered the tarmac. I had arrived to be a rum judge at Caribbean Journal’s 2019 Caribbean […]

A Taste of the Caribbean’s Hidden Sugarcane Mecca, Marie-Galante

It’s a quiet land of waving cane fields and serene beaches, ti’ punch and accras, shaped like a pancake and flat like one, too.  And the casual observer might mistake this merely for a serene Caribbean paradise.  But Marie Galante is something else.  You see, there are three rum distilleries in Marie-Galante, an island in […]

Rum Journal: The Best Rums of 2019

In 2012, Caribbean Journal’s Rum Journal first launched the Rum Awards — a unique celebration of the best rums of the year.  And after seven previous incarnations, the annual Rum Awards morphed into a full-fledged rum event in St Barth, the recently-concluded Caribbean Rum Awards, now an annual event on the Caribbean’s most exclusive island […]

Rum Journal: A Vibrant New Rum From Guadeloupe’s Longueteau

While Guadeloupe’s lovely rhum agricole still largely tends to live in the shadow of its kindred spirits in Martinique, one of the French Caribbean department’s rum brands has been working to change that: Rhum Longueteau.  The Sainte-Marie product has been at the forefront of Guadeloupe’s rum offering of late, with a blitz of new releases, […]