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ENGLISH HARBOUR RUM • IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY, THE FIRST RUM'S PRODUCED IN ANTIGUA WERE CONCOCTED BY INDIVIDUAL ESTATE
OWNERS USING CRUDE "POT STILLS" TO DISTIL THEIR HOME BREWS. BUT EVEN IN THOSE ROLLICKING DAYS, ANTIGUA RUM WAS KNOWN FOR ITS LIGHTNESS AND RATHER ELEGANT FLAVOUR.
• WITH THE DEMISE OF RUM PRODUCTION ON THE ESTATES IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, THE TRADE SHIFTED TO INDIVIDUAL RUM SHOPS WHOSE OWNERS CONCOCTED THEIR OWN BLENDS AND SOLD THEM UNDER COLOURFUL NAMES LIKE RED COCK, HOUSE AND SILVER LEAF. IN 1932 A NUMBER OF THESE RUM SHOP OWNERS JOINED TOGETHER TO FORM THE ANTIGUA DISTILLERY LTD.
• IN THE EARLY DAYS THE COMPANY SOLD TWO TYPES OF RUM AND AN AGED "MATURE" RUM KNOWN AS CABALLERO RUM. IN 1934 THE COMPANY PURCHASED A NUMBER OF ESTATES AND A SUGAR FACTORY AND BEGAN TO PRODUCE ITS OWN MOLASSES. THE FACTORY PRODUCED A VERY HIGH QUALITY AND DISTINCTIVE GROCERY SUGAR KNOWN AS MUCOVADO.
• THE RESIDUE OF THIS SUGAR, KNOWN AS MUSCOVADO MOLASSES, CONTAINED A WONDERFULLY PLEASANT SUGAR FLAVOUR AND WAS USED TO PRODUCE THE COMPANY'S FIRST BOTTLED PRODUCT IN THE EARLY 1950'S; A UNIQUE FULL-BODIED AGED RUM CALLED CAVALIER MUSCOVADO RUM.
• IN THE 1960'S THERE WAS A WORLDWIDE SHIFT IN CONSUMER PREFERENCES TOWARDS LIGHTER BODIED SPIRITS. IN RECOGNITION OF THIS TREND, THE COMPANY CHANGED ITS DISTILLATION PROCESS TO PRODUCE A MUCH LIGHTER- BODIED RUM. THUS, CAVALIER ANTIGUA RUM WAS BORN.
• IN 1991 ADL REPLACED ITS OLD SAVILLE STILL WITH A NEW 5 COLUMN COPPER STILL FROM JOHN DORE & CO. IN ENGLAND. WITH THE NEW STILL IN PLACE, ADL BEGAN TO EXPAND ITS PRODUCT MIX. ENGLISH HARBOUR RUM WAS INTRODUCED IN 1993, A NEW BRAND OF FINE RUM NAMED FOR ANTIGUA’S ENGLISH NAVY HERITAGE WHICH NOW SERVES YACHTS OF ALL SIZES FROM AROUND THE WORLD AND HOSTS ONE OF THE WORLD’S LEADING SAILING EVENTS ANNUALLY.
• ANTIGUA DISTILLERY HAS LONG BEEN THE PREMIUM DISTILLER OF FINE RUMS IN THE LEEWARD ISLANDS. AS WE MOVE INTO THE NEW CENTURY WE ARE COMMITTED TO MAINTAINING THE HIGH STANDARDS PRODUCTION AND PACKAGING THAT HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED OVER RECENT DECADES.
• ENGLISH HARBOUR RUM IS CONSIDERED BY MANY EXPERTS TO BE ONE OF THE FINEST BLENDS OF BOTH DARK AND LIGHT RUM DISTILLED IN THE CARIBBEAN TODAY, BENEFITING FROM MULTIPLE AWARDS. IN 2006, FORBES MAGAZINE VOTED ENGLISH HARBOUR RUM ONE OF THE TEN MOST REMARKABLE RUMS.