17 hours of travel from Portland, Oregon to Fort de France, Martinique have left me groggy and hungry. I’ve had nothing to eat except some horribly stale chips in the San Juan airport, and the 40 minute drive along the coast of Martinique to St. Pierre isn’t helping things. Luckily, when I arrived with my ...
RHUM AGRICOLE IS A FRENCH ISLAND TRADITION The majority of rum comes from distilling fermented molasses, a byproduct of sugar manufacturing. Rhum agricole, on the other hand, is a tightly controlled rum manufactured in the French territories of Martinique and Guadeloupe from freshpressed, free-running sugar cane juice. It is governed by an AOC (Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée). The ...
Not the wildest of reactions, but it's the one you want when you take that first sip of a summer cocktail after baking at the beach, playing a round of 18 or, let's face it, coming out of an air-conditioned car that you drove from your air-conditioned office to your air-conditioned home. (One can really ...
Clément Créole Shrubb has been a staple of French West Indian culture for centuries and is truly an experience of the senses, whether in a glass with ice or mixed with other spirits in a cocktail. Clément Créole Shrubb is simply amazing. With a recipe dating back several hundred years, Clement Creole Shrubb Liqueur d ...
On behalf of one of the most celebrated producers of Martinique Rhum Agricole, The Sugarcane Press is delighted to announce JET BLUE as the Clément 125th Anniversary cocktail. We are proud to have one of the brightest bar stars from Los Angeles, Lindsay Nader, submit the winning recipe. Lindsay tendered one her creation featured at of ...
Build in glass in order listed. Add ice. Stir approximately 20 times. Express orange peel over cocktail and enjoy!
The rum world is a place of multifaceted beauty, and one of the more captivating styles of the spirit is the category of rhum agricole, traditionally made in the French islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe...
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Spirits that are made from sugarcane are made in a vast range of styles under sometimes conflicting and incongruous techniques in several dozen countries around ...
Understanding the oft-overlooked spirit. In the United States, people buy more rum than bourbon, Scotch, gin or tequila. Statistics from the Distilled Spirits Council of the ...