This colorful rum punch comes to us courtesy of the Salt Mills Cafe and Diner, located in the Salt Mills Plaza, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands. I couldn’t help but take a few sips before taking a this photo! Decorated in bright primary colors, the diner serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, and offers vegetarian and gluten free dishes. For more photos and journal entries from our trips to Providenciales, click here. Cheers! Update: Sources tell us the cafe has now closed. Oh well, you can still enjoy our travel photos from Providenciales! And if you’re looking for a bite to eat, check out Hole in the Wall! or Da Conch Shack!
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While visiting the Library Bar at the Four Seasons Nevis, our bartender, Candy, mixed up quite a few cocktails, including this Ting with a Zing, made with CSR, cane sugar rum from St. Kitts, and Ting, a delicious grapefruit soda from Jamaica. Or is it a “Ting with a Sting?” I guess it just depends upon how strong it is! For more of the delicious cocktails mixed up by Candy, and more on our stay at the Four Seasons Nevis, read our trip report here. Cheers!
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Our favorite rum punch on Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands, can be found at Hemingway’s, located in The Sands, a resort right on Grace Bay Beach. You can see a nice float of Myer’s Dark Rum along the top. Cheers!
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The story of Rhum Barbancourt starts in 1862, when Dupre Barbancourt, a native of France, perfected his double distillation process for making rum, a process utilized in the making of fine cognac. When he died, the company passed to his wife’s family, and the rum has been produced by generations of the Gardere family ever since. In the early 1950’s, the company began producing rum from the sugar cane on its own estate, Domaine Barbancourt, and in the 1960’s, the company began to offer its finest rum, Barbancourt Reserve, to the public. The rum, aged 15 years, has been the recipient of many accolades. This is not a rum for…
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Rum has been distilled and blended by the Callwood family for more than 200 years in Tortola. Callwood produces sugar cane rum, aged in oak barrels. It claims to be the Caribbean’s oldest continuously operating pot distillery. If you visit between March and August, you may have a chance to see the full distilling operation. However, the distillery is open year-round to tour the grounds and purchase some of Callwood’s rums from the mild “Panty Remover” to the 10-year aged rum. For more on our visit to Callwood, read our Tortola trip report here. Or if you want more of the British Virgin Islands, read our five-part BVI trip report…
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Today’s Spirits of the Caribbean is a bit of a blast from the past. You will see Pyrat Rum in your liquor store or local watering hole, but you won’t see the Pyrat Rum plant on Anguilla anymore. Years ago, there was a Pyrat Rum blending and bottling plant on Anguilla, located in Sandy Ground, offering tours of the facility. They even had a rum which you could only get on Anguilla, an orange-flavored rum called “Savage.” Sadly, the Anguilla facility closed in 2009, and Savage is no more. Anguilla Rums Limited, which produced Pyrat Rum, was founded by Martin Crowley, an American businessman. Mr. Crowley died on Anguilla in…
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So you’re not on Nevis, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the Mangojito at home. We start with the recipe from the Four Seasons Nevis: 1.5 ounces Brinley’s Gold Mango Rum 8 mint leaves Splash of simple syrup Juice of 1 lime 1 Tablespoon of mango puree Club Soda Start by peeling and removing the pit from the mangoes, or more accurately, the mango from the pit. Place the pieces in your blender and puree until smooth. Make up some simple syrup. It’s one part water, one part sugar. Heat it to make sure that the sugar is dissolved and allow to cool down. Place the mint leaves in…
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St. Kitts and Nevis were known as the “sugar islands,” with abundant fields of sugar cane, and alive with the milling of sugar cane, and the distillation and production of rum. Unfortunately over time, those distilleries disappeared and now the only rum produced locally is home brew or “hammond.” There remains a brand of rum which is bottled and blended on St. Kitts by Demerara Distillers Limited of Guyana. CSR, Cane Spirit Ritchmont,“The Spirit of St. Kitts,” is a light spirit distilled from cane sugar syrup, rather than molasses, from which rum is generally made. It is perfect when combined with Ting, a grapefruit soda from Jamaica, for a “Ting…
