Virginie de Pouppeville is Quality Manager at BBS (La Mauny, Trois Rivières). As such, she…
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Interview with Marc Sassier Rumporter: 2019 was a successful year for the distillery with, in…
As the market leader of agricole rums in Martinique, and as one of its precursors,…
Despite its age, the history of this mythical Jamaican distillery is mostly unknown. Its rums…
Interview with Raphael Grisoni by Allen Smith Rumporter: Without entering the specialist debate on the…
On this island, the birthplace of rum, as Barbados has been called for centuries, Mount…
If there is a key figure in the rum world, that person is Luca “Ruruki”…
Translated into English by Thomas Giraud In the light of the devastating effects caused by…
What we immediately liked about Jason, besides the fact that he has quite successfully campaigned…
A former ambassador for Nicaragua in France and elsewhere, Ariel Granera Sacara is the Head…
Evan Watson, a Canadian barman, led the boycott movement in 2016. He tells us about…
Nicholas Feris is a multi-talentend man – pharmacist, photographer, blogger and barman. Along with others,…
Life is beautiful in Léon, and it’s always a pleasure to return there. It is…
Jamaica… an island lost in the Caribbean Sea, south of Cuba and off the coast of Haiti. Colonized in 1494 by the Spanish, the island officially became English in 1670 and finally gained independence in 1962 and remains part of the Commonwealth.
Alexandre, we’ve just learned that you (Maison Ferrand) have acquired the WIRD distillery in the north of Barbados. How did these negotiations happen and what motivated the purchase?
Did you know that modern day Laos is defined as a result of its historical status as a French protectorate (roughly from 1890 to 1970, or the period of Indochina Wars) and that more than 70% of the country is made up of mountains? Well, I didn’t… When it comes to Thailand or Vietnam, I’m more or less familiar with those two countries. But Laos?
This statement alone could almost be used to summarise rum trade in the 18th century on the American continent.
In less than a quarter of a century, Havana Club has become one of the three leading rum brands globally, just behind Bacardi and Captain Morgan, despite the American embargo that prevents it from entering the world’s largest rum market.
Thanks to Rhum, this little Martinique hamlet has become famous around the world – even if its distillery has been out of action since 2004. But the 120 ha plantation still provides its sugarcane juice, and the two distillation columns are still active on the Riviere-Pilote site, less than 5km away.
Barbados, dubbed the birthplace of rum, required a lord to play the role of its…
Since the BBS group (La Mauny, Trois Rivières) was taken over by Chevrillon in 2012, there has been a real transformation of the rhum agricole industry, which is orienting itself more and more towards the production of aged spirits.
An emblem of Guadeloupe, Damoiseau has experienced entrepreneurial success on a local, national and international scale.
Cyrille Hugon: How long have you been working for J.M? Emmanuel Becheau : I began my…