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On the Rocks
by Ian Williams Mar 05 2010
As part of its push to introduce American sippers to a wider range of high-end cognacs, Rémy Martin is selling a “rare cask” of the brown liquor for a mere $15,000 a bottle.
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Premium brown spirits, whiskies, malts made from grain, and rums from sugar have [...]

February 17, 2010, 6:47 pm
New Rum Campaign Has a Sophisticated Tone
By STUART ELLIOTT
The raucous, party-hardy image of rum is not for the rum distillers of Puerto Rico. They are taking another tack in a campaign that is now under way.
The campaign, which carries the theme “A reflection of who you are,” has a tone [...]

Rum revival sparks new interest in old spirit
By MICHELLE LOCKE (AP) – 20 hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO — If the huge anchor and float lights hanging from the ceiling of Martin Cate’s Smuggler’s Cove bar don’t clue you in, the stacks of barrels and ship’s figurehead mounted on the wall should get you in the spirit [...]

Haiti’s Rhum Barbancourt Suffers Quake Damage
Dan Marsteller
Posted: January 25, 2010
Rhum Barbancourt’s Port-au-Prince distillery will not resume production for at least a month following significant damage sustained during the Haitian capital’s recent earthquake. One of the facility’s exterior walls fell, and barrels of aging rum were destroyed along with equipment inside the plant. Two of Rhum [...]

Local rum now among world’s best
01 Feb 10 by PETER BODKIN Manly Daily (Australia)
Local rum now among world’s best
Tony Stubley … amazed by the new company’s success. Picture: MARTIN LANGE
WHEN North Narrabeen’s Tony Stubley met his friend Stuart Gilbert for lunch two years ago, he had no idea they would plan a “rum rebellion” that [...]

Get in there Caricom!
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Proposed legislation would limit ability of US Caribbean territories to finance economic development projects
Published on Saturday, January 30, 2010 Email To Friend Print Version
WASHINGTON, USA — A Congressional Research Service (CRS) analysis of the rum excise tax cover over program, from which Puerto Rico receives about $400 million annually and [...]

Bacardi Limited Donates $50,000 to PADF-OAS Haitian Earthquake Relief
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Bacardi Limited, the largest privately held spirits company in the world, has generously donated $50,000 to help relieve the suffering of thousands of survivors of the devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) announced.
“Bacardi has consistently shown [...]

Rum Among the Ruins: One Haitian’s Remedy
By BOBBY GHOSH / LEOGANE, HAITI Monday, Jan. 25, 2010
Michael Moscoso is suitably embarrassed about his good fortune. “I feel morally incorrect,” he says, ruefully. “People are still dying and I’m [talking about] making rum.”
It’s true that people are still dying in Leogane, the Haitian town closest to the [...]

In the face of the tragedy that afflicted Haiti, it might seem frivolous to worry about a distillery, but Haiti’s iconic Rhum Barbancourt is one of the few indigenous export industries that has survived over the years and it is crucial to redevelopment.
I spoke to Mike Yarema of Crillon Importers in New Jersey, and although [...]

Want to to be talked through a tasting of 15 year old El Dorado – in Danish…?
The cork popping sounds good in any language!