JAMAICA
Appleton Estate (Joy Spence Rum Experience)
Siloah, St. Elizabeth, Jamaica
Appleton Estate is an iconic Jamaican rum blended from different styles to express Jamaica’s unique terroir. This golden amber-hued spirit intrigues with its aromas and flavours of dried apricots, peach, molasses and oaky vanilla.
Tours: Public
Gift Shop: Yes
Tour Geek Factor: 4/10
Owner: Gruppo Campari
Hampden Estate
Trelawny, Jamaica. We are located just 30 minutes from the Falmouth cruise pier.
Hampden Estate Rum, from the historical (and one of the oldest) Jamaican distillery, after 265 years sells its aged rums for the first time.
Tours: Public
Gift Shop: Yes
Tour Geek Factor: 9/10
Owner: Independent
Worthy Park Estate
Deep in the heart of Lluidas Vale sits The Worthy Park Estate. Protected by the surrounding mountain ranges and encompassed by lush and fertile terrain.
Jamaica’s Single Estate Producer | EST. 1670
IWSC’s Rum Producer 2023 🥇
Lluidas Vale, whose elevations range from 1,500 feet (460 m) to 3,250 feet (990 m), is bordered by Ewarton and Swansea Coffee Mountain. A church is located at the heart of Lluidas Vale. The Lluidas Vales Cave is located 0.5 kilometres (0.31 mi) southwest of the parish and near the Lluidas Sinkhole. Lluidas Vales has an abundance of sugarcane fields and also has a wide range of limestone karst. In particular, the settlement is surrounded by kegelkarst.
Tours: Public
Gift Shop: Yes
Tour Geek Factor: 7.5/10 (But it goes way up if you get a sugar factory tour!)
Owner: Independent
Clarendon
Monymusk, Lionel Town, Clarendon, Jamaica
The Clarendon Distillery, home to Monymusk, was built in 1949, making it a very recent addition to rum production. The original building still houses the distillery’s two pot stills and the corresponding fermentation tanks but the complex has been expanded enormously over time. The older one has a capacity of 20,000 litres while the newer, indian manufactured still can carry 25,000 litres, making it possibly the biggest pot still in the Caribbean.
Tours: Private
Gift Shop: No
Tour Geek Factor: 10/10
Owner: National Rums of Jamaica
Long Pond
Long Pond distillery is situated in northern Jamaica, within Trelawny parish, and grew out of the consolidation of numerous estates in the late 19th century.
National Rums of Jamaica comprises the Long Pond Distillery, which has been in operation for over 250 years, the Clarendon Distillery, which has been in operation for over 100 years, and Innswood Distillers Limited.
Tours: Private
Gift Shop: No
Tour Geek Factor: 10/10
Owner: National Rums of Jamaica
New Yarmouth
New Yarmouth Estate
Gimme-Me-Bit
Jamaica
The New Yarmouth Distillery is one of Jamaica’s traditional Rum distilleries with roots dating back to the 18th century. Over the course of the 20th century, the property became part of the portfolio of J. Wray & Nephew, the well-known Jamaican spirits company, which took over the Appleton Estate Distillery back in 1916.
Today, New Yarmouth is best known as the production site of the legendary Wray & Nephew Overproof Rum. The Rum is distilled here in the traditional way in copper pot stills and in column stills – a process that ensures the powerful flavour and high ester content typical of Jamaican Rums.
Tours: Nope. No way.
Gift Shop: No
Tour Geek Factor: ∞ (No one gets in, so…)
Owner: Gruppo Campari