- Home
- About Me
- Best Beaches
- Grenada Hotels
- Grenada Restaurants
- Grenada Attractions
- Grenada Facts
- Why Grenada?
- Gouyave
- Carriacou
- Grenada Pictures
- Getting There
- Getting Around
- Cruising Here
- Island Tours
- Grenada Sailing
- Grenada Cricket
- Your Grenada
- Grenada Search
- Grenada News
- Newsletter
- Grenada Blog
- Sitemap
- Contact Us
River Antoine Estate ... The home of Rivers Rum
Rivers Rum is arguably the strongest and finest white rum you will find anywhere in the caribbean. I cannot say it definitly is, becuase it depends on which Grenadian you ask.
They all will agree that Grenada produces the strongest white rum. But the debate rages on over whether Rivers Rum in the north, is superior to Clarkes Court Rum in the south. And that can make for a healthy rum shop argument.
On One of my island tour I decided to drop by to see the good folks at River Antoine Estate the makers Rivers Rum. For a few bucks we got a guided tour of the entire rum making operation.
The key thing that distinguishes Rivers Rum from the rest is that the rum is still made almost the same way the original owners made it over 200 years ago.
Central to that process is the Water Wheel. Water from River
Antoine is channeled, and used to turn the wheel, which generates the
power to press the juice out of the sugar cane, and kick off the rum
making.
Here is Ryian, with the water wheel pictured in the
background.
The entire process from the raw sugar cane to the final bottled product
is quite fasinating. And I can gaurantee that you won't look at your
Rum Punch, or Rum and Coke the same way after taking the tour.
Did you know? Or even consider ...
How do you go from this ugly
stuff?...
To this .
That one always impresses the heck out of me. And I'm so
gratefull ... I mean can you imagine what life in the rum shop
would be like, if we
had to drink that brown stuff?
Well the good folks at River Antoine Estate have been turning the nasty looking brown stuff, into crystal clear perfection for over 200 years.
And on the tour to see just how it's done. This is my second visit to River Antoine Estate. On each visit we got guides that were very knowledgable about the Rivers Rum making process (no surprise here). On this our last visit, our guide was Patsy ...
And of course my little travelling buddy Ryian, just had to have
another shot to add to her collection.
Here's Ryian and Patsy, with the cooling tanks pictured in the
background.
The best part of the tour of course is the rum tasting ...
Rivers Rum comes in two different sizes, and two different proofs. There is a 40% alc, 80% proof which is less strong, and suitable for travelling. And then there is bad boy, not for the faint of heart ... and the only gaurantee here is that it won't be below 75% alc or 152 proof.
If you like good natural white rum like I do. Then make a stop at River Antoine Estate, the home of Rivers Rum a Must Stop.
And if you make it this far north, be sure to also check out Lake Antoine it's only 5 minutes away. It is the source of the River Antoine, that feeds the channel, that turns the wheel, that crushes the cane, that makes Rivers Rum, which we all love so much.
Return from River Antoine Rivers Rum to Sunshine Tours in Grenada
