Craft Distillers Tap Pure Sugar Cane For A Southern Rum Renaissance

By Tuesday, August 23, 2016

“The beautiful thing about agricoles,” says Blackmore, “is that you cannot add flavoring, coloring or sugar. It has to be distilled from raw sugar cane juice. We follow those rules, although since we are not located in the French West Indies, we call ours a Low Country agricole.” To make its signature agricole, High Wire ferments fresh cane juice from locally grown cane that is distilled and rested in wooden barrels for a year. Says Marshall, “We are taking this crop out of the ground and juicing it in its entirety — with bits of dirt, organic matter, all that delicious cellulose, those natural yeasts. That’s why it tastes so unique.”

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