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 – […]
By Alexander Britell As you drive along the central highway toward the southern coast of Martinique, there are few notable views — save one. There’s a stunning old stone windmill flanked by a few wooden buildings. But this is not mere scenery. It’s one of the oldest rum plantations in Martinique, the venerable Trois Rivieres, a […]
By Alexander Britell When the harvest changes, the rum changes. It’s a tenet particular to the Rhum Agricole of the French Caribbean, the only Caribbean rum with a true terroir. When you make your rum from freshly pressed sugar cane juice, the peculiarities of every year’s new cane mean a different result, just as rums […]
By Alexander Britell Just to the side of a centuries-old stone villa in the northeast of Martinique is what just might be the most exciting boutique rum distillery in the entire Caribbean. And all it makes is white rum (for now, at least). Yves Assier de Pompignan boutique distillery has quietly become a force in […]
