Interviews & Insights
Temperature Fluctuation in Tropical Aging: A Caribbean Rum Expert Explains
In the Caribbean, maturation is not a quiet affair. Barrels expand beneath midday heat, contract in the relative cool of night, and breathe salt-tinged air drawn in from surrounding coastlines. For a master blender in Barbados or Jamaica, temperature fluctuation in tropical aging is not an incidental condition but a structural force. It shapes extraction, […]
February 25, 2026
