Pouring Out Paradise

By Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Check out this recent article from Yachting Magazine that gives us a nice look into Martinique's rich culture of Rhum Agricole. “The best rum in the world comes from Martinique,” Laurent Assier de Pompignan insists. The silver-haired connoisseur is Martinique’s largest importer of fine wines, Champagnes and spirits, and he assures me there’s no need to ...

Magnificent Martinique

By Wednesday, April 20, 2016

The crystalline turquoise waters drew us in, and one by one, we submerged in the shallows of Josephine’s Bathtub. The legendary swimming hole off the coast of Martinique is a natural wonder created by a long white sandbar, so named for Napoleon’s empress who reputedly liked to bathe there as a young girl. I was with ...

Adventures: Rhum with a View

By Friday, January 8, 2016

Island Exports If you can’t make it to Martinique, look for these bottles at your local liquor store The distilleries on Martinique that are fumante—"smoking," meaning currently producing rhum agricole—bottle hundreds of variations, from basic white to flavored to blends barrel-aged for decades. Although only a fraction of those get exported to the United States, here are ...

You Say Rum, I Say Rhum

By Tuesday, October 21, 2014

No, this is not a typo mistake. Yes, this tiny H letter makes a big difference. And to understand it, we need to investigate deep down into the sugarcane field. Rum and rhum may both be made from sugarcane, but this is the only thing they have in common. The opposite of industrial rum distilled from ...