Drink Rum at Macoucherie Distillery, Dominica

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See how rum was made the old way without modern equipment. Dominica's Macoucherie Distillery (aka Shillingford Estates) sits in the Macoucherie valley on the west coast of the island. The rum distillery was established in the late nineteenth century by a French family, whose name remains unknown and cannot be found in the existing archives. Macoucherie Distillery was owned by the local family “the Royers” and was acquired by H.D. Shillingford in 1942, grandfather of the current Managing Director, Clifton “Dense” Shillingford. Macoucherie rums are the only rums on the island distilled from pure sugar cane juice, still carrying the features which characterized sugar cane crushing in the eighteen and nineteenth centuries.

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