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Appleton Estate
Jamaican rum estate in the Nassau Valley, owned by Campari, which says it has made rum since 1749. It blends copper pot-still and column-still rums from molasses.
Status
Founding date and 'oldest continuously operating distillery' are the company's claims, not checked against records.
What the company says
Appleton Estate says it has made rum in Jamaica's Nassau Valley "since 1749" and calls itself Jamaica's oldest continuously operating distillery. It ferments locally sourced molasses with its own cultured yeast and estate spring water, blends copper pot-still and column-still distillates, and ages them in ex-bourbon American oak.
Joy Spence was appointed Master Blender in 1997; the company describes her as the first woman to hold that title in the spirits industry. Both claims come from the brand.
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- CountryJamaica4 entries in the atlas so far
- IngredientMolasses
- RegionJamaicaJamaica
- StyleJamaica Rum (geographical indication)Protected name
- StoryA history of rumBarbados
- IngredientSugarcaneSaccharum officinarum (and hybrids with S. spontaneum and other wild Saccharum)
- HistorySlavery Abolition Act (1833)August 1833 (in force 1 August 1834; apprenticeship ended 1838)
- History'Jamaica Rum' registered as a geographical indication (2016)1 December 2016
- HistoryMolasses Act (1733)May 1733 (in force 25 December 1733)
- StyleRum (EU legal category)Legal category