French styled rum, commonly identified as rhum agricole (yes, rum with an H) is inescapable when seeking out rum options at your local bar, restaurant, or liquor store.  AOC Rhum Agricole, hailed from the French West Indies of the Caribbean, undresses a category of rum bursting with bold and funky flavor profiles that cannot be imitated anywhere else in the world.

Where regular rum is made from the distillation of plain old fermented molasses, rhum agricole is distilled from fresh pressed, free-running cane sugar juice. Also, the industry is tightly managed across the French territories, as it is run by an official organization called the AOC (Appelation d’Orgine Controlle) which mandates when to harvest the cane sugar, the distillation process and maintenance of the growing environment.

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