For our second mixology interview, head to Danico, in the superb Vivienne gallery. At the back of the Italian restaurant Daroco, this speakeasy-style bar (hidden bar) offers some of the best cocktails in Paris. Hospitality is a sacred value there and the welcome is always wonderful. On the elaborate menu, cocktails based on a multitude […]
Photo credit: Marion Berrin Rum and cocktail culture are and always have been inseparable. Since the first punches and the first grogs, we have taken advantage of the power and variety of rum aromas. Today, a new generation of bartenders has deepened their culture. By exploring the ancient […]
Rum has its vocabulary, its jargon, and it is not always easy to navigate. Even seasoned amateurs wonder about notions which can be vague, and therefore sometimes diverted from their true meaning. However, it is important to be able to understand and decipher the labels, as well as the speeches that are sometimes a little […]
You want to offer a rum, what a great idea! Here is a gift that works every time. Rum is synonymous with joy, taste, refinement, elegance, and sometimes madness, depending on the mood of the moment. It’s a very vast universe, and that’s precisely what makes us passionate. But we can imagine […]
When you're new to this world, tasting rum can seem like a complex ceremonial ritual, which must be carried out according to the rules of the art, otherwise you run the risk of tastelessness. But it's a simple, convivial pleasure, without any snobbery, which can be enjoyed to the full by following a few simple tips. First and foremost, [...]
The great annual gathering of spirits always brings its share of new releases, and distilleries try to keep their secrets to this day in order to surprise us. We went to the Cité de la Mode et du Design with the idea of discovering just a handful of new bottlings, and as usual nothing [...].
The rum that comes out of the alembic or distillation column can follow a number of different paths. White rum can be bottled as is, or almost as is, or aged for a few months, a few years, or for a very long time. In this article, we invite you to discover the secrets of aged rums. The ages of rums [...]
A brief history of distillation The early days of distillation are still a little hazy. While remains of vases dating back to the 2nd millennium BC have been found in Iraq and India, and appear to have been used to produce plant essences, the first written record of distillation is [...].
Whether in the field of agricultural rums or in that of molasses rums, fermentation is a key stage which will determine the final character of the rum. We will come back to this in more detail in a future article, but you should know that distillation is in reality the art of selecting nature […]
Agricultural rum and the terroir Since the origins of rum as we know it today, which date back to the turn of the 18th century, rum was produced solely from molasses, a by-product of sugar production. It was in Martinique and Guadeloupe that rum began to be produced from […]
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