Angostura comes from Trinidad, small Caribbean island. It was established by Johan Sieger, doctor of medicine. He was working as surgeon on Simon Bolivar’s army in Venezuela. Sieger wanted to create new product from botanicals, to help his patients appetite and digestion. At 1824 was born the Aromatic Bitters and when…
New Grove comes from Mauritius, an island from east-coast of Africa. It’s a product of Terra Group, family owned company established at 1838 by French Dr Pierre Charles François Harel. New Grove is the biggest rum producer in Mauritius and they have over 6.000 hectares of sugarcane. The company produce sugar…
Havana Club is the biggest rum producer in Cuba and one of the best known rum brandies in the world. It was established at 1934 by Arechabala family. During the Cuba revolution years the distillery was nationalized and the owners escaped to USA or Europe, or was thrown to prison.Nowadays it…
Old Captain is rum brand by Dutch Boomsma Distillery. It's blend of many rum producer distillates around Caribbean Islands. Boomsma is 125 years old, one of the few still working family owned distilleries in Holland. For some reason Old Captain rums are very well available in Baltic states. 70cl bottle bought…
Vergi is produced by Koch LLC, an alcohol company located in Sõmeru, eastern-Estonia. It is on sale only in SuperAlko alcohol chain stores, owned by same corporation which own also Koch. According to one source, it column distilled from Trinidad, with small amount of pot still distillate added. 50cl bottle bougth…
Barbuda Rum is produced by Estonian Remedia Distillery, established at 1991. It's now owned by Latvian Amber Distribution, which is the biggest alcohol distributor in Baltic states. Barbuda White Rum is column distilled from molassis, aged few month or barrels or vats and filtered to clear. It's blended bulk rum which…
Bacardi is the biggest, family owned alcohol producer in the world. Established at 1882 by Don Facundo Bacardi Masso, who bought a distillery at Santiago de Cuba. He wanted to create a new kind of rum which separates from the raw and unpleasant rums on that age. By his invented carbon…