Gold of Mauritius Dark Rum

Gold of Mauritius with a delicious, beautiful dark golden colour. The taste is intense and soft like velvet. The rum has a nice balance. In the aftertaste, tones of dish, nuts and dark chocolate are perceived. A very complex and elegant rum.

Gold of Mauritius is a really delicious sweet rum with notes from aging in oak casks, and lots of notes of roasted nuts. All in all, it's a really well-balanced rum that many rum fans will love to have in the glass.

"Gold of Mauritius" is made from a mixture of rums from Medine Distillery and Grays/New Grove distillery. Only molasses-based rum is used for the mixture.

Mauritius:

Mauritius is an island state located in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 900 km east of Madagascar.
The rum comes from the small island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The island is slightly further out from Africa than Madagascar, and has an area of approx. 1,900 km². (Lolland and Falster 1,780km²).

The island has been known to the Arabs since the 9th century, but it was the Portuguese who came as the first Europeans to the island in 1505. The Dutch colonized the island in 1638, and they named the island after Prince Morits of Nassau. The Dutch left the island a few decades later. In the 18th century, the island was under French control. The French introduced the first black slaves to produce sugar from sugar cane.

In 1810 Great Britain occupied the island in connection with the Napoleonic Wars. The island became British and the British retained control until independence in 1968.

There are several rum distilleries in Mauritius. Some produce the rum on the basis of fresh sugarcane juice, also called Rhum Agricole, and others use the waste product from cane sugar, which is called molasses-based rum.