Drinks

The Caribbean is probably best known for its rum. The distilleries developed alongside the sugar plantations as rum is distilled from molasses. The strong association goes back to days of the Pirates and Buccaneers and Treasure Island’s ‘Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!’. Barbados has seen over 350 years of production. Rum is growing once again in popularity and the master blenders are offering some intense and appealing choices. There are deep differences between Jamaican rums like Appleton, Haitian Barbancourt, Trinidadian Angostura, Puerto Rican Don Q and Barbados’ Mount Gay; and let’s not forget that Bacardi, which originated in Cuba, is now produced in Puerto Rico.