Wine Enthusiast Magazine

SPIRITS

Out of all the spirits categories, rum may have the most Wild West ethos in the field. That’s proving to be an exciting thing, yielding some wonderful, unusual bottles to try right now.

By Wild West, we mean that there seem to be fewer rules, and the regulations that do appear seem to be flexible and open to a wide range of interpretation. Rum can be made from molasses or sugar cane juice; it can be made, distilled and aged in any number of countries, under any number of conditions; even the interpretation of age may vary widely

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