VIDEO: Why This Might Be the Perfect Caribbean Rum Distillery

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - November 16, 2015

Deep in the north of Martinique, in a rainforest, at the foot of a fearsome volcano, it is there.

Rhum JM, a distillery that produces some of the best rum in all of the West Indies.

There is a way people speak about this distillery, a kind of reverential tone, that they know there is something special happening here in the village of Macouba. And they are right.

Watch the video to learn more.

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