Rum-Bar Gold is a barrel aged Jamaican Rum from the Worthy Park Estate. The Estate has been involved in Sugar Production since 1720.
However, due to events described in this interview, I conducted with Alexander Kong they have been absent from the Rum Market until fairly recently.
Back in 2004/5 they set about building a new state of the art distillery in order to begin producing rum again. In 2007 they introduced their White Overproof to the domestic market and have now added a Gold rum and a Rum Cream to their portfolio. In order to help pay for the state of the art distillery Worthy Park have also sold “bulk” rum to other bottlers.
Our latest interview is with Alexander Kong (pictured in the grey jacket, alongside Gordon Clarke Co-Managing Director) who is the Export Sales Manager for the recently resurrected Worthy Park Distillery.
From what I understand Appleton Special isn’t widely available in a lot of territories. It is freely available in the UK though.
Appleton Estate Extra is the “Ultra Premium rum in the Appleton Estate family and it is touted as unsurpassed masterpiece of oak ageing”. Now I’m not one for re-producing a companies marketing material but I will make an exception in this instance.
Mezan’s 2003 Jamaica Rum comes from the Monkymusk Distillery. Monymusk is Jamaica’s oldest sugar and rum estate. It has been producing rum for over 200 years and was named after Scottish Baronet Sir Archibald Grant’s estate in his home country.
The Duppies are Caribbean spirits who steal Caribbean rum hopping from island to island, keeping the best for themselves.