Today, St. Vincent Distillers Ltd. boasts
a clean, modern facility comprised of an
expert team of distillers, blenders,
bottlers, technicians, and administrative
staff. Together, they produce a variety of
rums ranging from white to aged, and
blended products, which continually win
awards in international rum tasting
competitions.
Locally, the most popular product is
Sunset Very Strong Rum, which is 84.5%
alcohol by volume, and is often blended
with other ingredients to produce a
distinctive “Vincy” flavour. SLR is a
smooth, white rum, bottled at 40% alcohol
by volume. Captain Bligh XO and Sunset
Premium Rum are both aged rums with
their own unique,
smooth, palatable
flavours that all
"brown rum”
connoisseurs desire.
St. Vincent
Distillers is also proud
of its branded Sunset
Rum Punch, popular
throughout the
Caribbean.
During the early 1900s, sugar was the
main crop on St. Vincent. The Mt.
Bentinck Estate, located 21 miles from
Kingstown on the windward coast of St.
Vincent, built a distillery in the foothills
of La Soufriere Volcano to make use of the
readily available molasses from the sugar
factory next door.
The Mt. Bentinck Distillery, as it
became known, operated successfully for
nearly six decades until, in 1963, it was
sold to the Government of St. Vincent and
the name was changed to St. Vincent
Distillers Limited.
Unfortunately, with bananas replacing
sugar cane as the main source of the
island's economy, the sugar mill closed
operation the same year, forcing the
distillery to import molasses, the most
important product in the production of
rum.
In 1996, the Government – in a move
toward privatization – sold the business to
C. K. Greaves & Co. Ltd., one of the
island’s most successful businesses, which
continues to operate the distillery to this
day.
HISTORY
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