All Rum/Rhum

Where there is sugar cane, there will be rum. 

Rum/Rhum is an extremely diverse spirits category with many different styles and traditions, the only connecting factor being they are all made with sugar cane or by-products of sugar refining. Most rums are made from molasses, a by-product of the sugar refining process, these rums normally give flavours of caramel, toffee, treacle, cocoa and baking spice as they age. The other most popular method is by using fresh cane juice directly after harvest, these rums are usually more aromatic and savoury with cane juice, citrus peel, pepper, olive brine and herbal notes. 

As for the major countries making rum Jamaica is famous for intensity and high-ester (high in flavour compounds) character, Barbados is known for balance and blending skill, Guyana (Demerara) can be dense and dark, Trinidad & Tobago can sit in a cleaner, oak-led lane, the French Caribbean shines for cane-juice agricole structure and Australia is building its own modern rum identity as the category grows.