Rum, In the Making: From Cane Field to Bottle

This is the story of how rum is shaped from cane field to bottle. What followstraces the choices that guide its character—how the cane is grown andharvested, how its sugars are prepared and fermented, how the spirit isdistilled, rested or aged, and how it is finally balanced before bottling. Sobefore the still and the barrel have their say, we begin where that characterfirst starts to form.