SOUTH AFRICAN craft spirits innovator, Sugarbird, has produced a four-year old, Jamaican-style rum, infused with protea nectar, in keeping with the brand’s reverence for the Cape Floral Kingdom and fynbos’s seemingly endless flavour palette.
The latest addition to the Sugarbird stable, which includes several internationally-awarded gins and a superior 14-year pure potstill brandy, is the Sugarbird Cape Fynbos Rum. It is triple distilled using blackstrap molasses.
“Since rum is produced from sugarcane, this spirit actually echoes our name – and as always, fynbos shines through.
“We believe we have produced a rum which reflects the natural characters of this complex spirit – dark and bold, with typical characteristics of its Jamaican heritage. Our rum is molasses-fermented, triple distilled in different potstills, after which it is aged in second and third fill American bourbon and sherry oak.”
Alternatively, Sugarbird’s rum mixes well with ginger ale, however, the current favourite serve for Sugarbird Rum, is to mix with fresh lime juice and ginger beer for a Sugarbird Dark & Stormy cocktail. Sugarbird Rum is available on Takealot, Mothercity Liquors, Smous Online and selected independent liquor stores at a recommended retail price of R349.95. For more information, contact Kirsten Reynecke: kirsten@kirstenhopwood.co.za or 082 748 8887.