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This St John, USVI Beach Has Sugar-White Sand, Turquoise Water, and a Paddle-In Tiki Bar 

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Beach. Blue. Rum. That’s all it takes to understand why Maho has become one of the island’s most magnetic places. The water is calm, the sand is soft, and just behind the palms, a pop-up beach village serves cocktails that taste like vacation itself. You’re sitting with a Painkiller in one hand, the sand cool beneath […]

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This Caribbean Island Is Hosting the World’s Most Luxurious Rum Festival

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The Caribbean’s most luxurious rum festival is back — and it’s happening on one of the region’s most exclusive islands. Think of it as a kind of Cannes for Caribbean rum: a full-fledged St Barth Rum Week. The Caribbean Rum Awards St Barth is officially set for November 10-16, 2025, marking the eighth edition of […]

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Why Guadeloupe Is a Caribbean Island Hopping Paradise

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Guadeloupe isn’t one island—it’s a self-contained archipelago of six inhabited isles (and countless islets and cays), each with its own rhythm, landscape, and identity. Set in the French Caribbean, Guadeloupe is unified by a strong Creole and French heritage, yet offers a surprisingly diverse range of experiences just a ferry ride away. Whether you’re hiking […]

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This is the Best Rum Bar in the Caribbean 

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It’s small, intimate, as much a library as a bar. The shelves are filled with rare bottling of the Caribbean’s greatest rums. There’s a walk-in humidor around the corner. A small bar counter. Beautiful leather chairs.  If you dreamed up a rum bar in the depths of your imagination, it would look exactly like this. Here, […]


Why Guadeloupe Is a Caribbean Island Hopping Paradise

The beaches. The rum. The cuisine. The volcano. There are quite a few layers to the Caribbean island of Martinique, the French Caribbean department that’s home to more rum distilleries than anywhere else on earth, some of the region’s most impressive gastronomy and a history that includes the most impactful volcanic eruption of the 20th […]

Rum Journal: A Game-Changing Caribbean Rum Gets Even Better 

It may be hard to remember with the growth of rum in the last decade. But when Dos Maderas came out with its 5+5 rum, it was a bit of a game-changer for the spirit.  At the time (more than a decade ago), nobody (outside of Martinique) was even thinking about doing cask-finish rums. The […]

Rum Journal: This 12-Year-Old Rum Is a Taste of Grenada 

Martinique. Cuba. Guyana. Guadeloupe. Barbados. Puerto Rico. When you think of legendary Caribbean rum-making markets, these are some of the first names that come to mind. But hidden away in the southeastern Caribbean is another one that should be on your radar: Grenada.  The lush, fertile island has long been a haven for great rums […]

Momofuku Just Opened a Caribbean Hotspot in New York (With a Rum Bar)

It’s one of the hottest restaurant brands, well, anywhere: Momofuku, the contemporary Asian hotspot founded by David Chang that now has locations all around the globe.  But Momofuku started life in New York, and that’s where the brand’s newest concept has taken shape: Bar Kabawa, a new Caribbean rum bar that’s all about celebrating the […]

Rum Journal: LVMH’s Newest Caribbean Rum 

It’s been one of the most successful rum releases of the last decade: Eminente, the Cuban brand that has instantly found itself in the pantheon of the best rums on the global market.  While the premium aged rum has launched several spin-offs (including an outstanding 10-year Gran Reserva), it’s the 7-year that is the standard-bearer […]

Rum Journal: A Legendary Rum Bar in Athens, Greece, Baba Au Rhum

We’ve written often in these pages of the joy of the Rum Bar, a bar that celebrates the best of Caribbean rum-making with a diverse, robust selection of rums from across the region.  For years, such bars were few and far between, even in the Caribbean: places like Antigua’s Papa Zouk, or the Rhum Room […]

How to Spend a Week in St. Barts Tasting the Caribbean’s Best Rums 

Tastings of the world’s rarest rums. Cocktail parties on the beach. Spectacular villas. Up-close meetings with the Caribbean’s premier rum-makers. Michelin-level gastronomy.  There’s nothing quite like the Caribbean Rum Awards St Barth, the competition and festival that celebrates the very best in Caribbean rum.  This year’s Caribbean Rum Awards is back again on the Caribbean’s […]

The Perfect Caribbean Luxury Vacation? St Barth's Rum Week in November.

World-class restaurants. White-sand beaches. Cocktails and premium rum. Your own private ocean-view villa. St Barth has always defined the luxury vacation in the Caribbean, and one week in particular is the perfect way to experience the island: the Caribbean Rum Awards in November. Now in its seventh year, the Caribbean’s leading rum event is back […]