Renegade
Is it possible to produce a rum that can compete with the best single malts in the world? Renegade Rum uses only terroir as a building block and sugar cane as the source of the natural rum flavour.
The Renegade Rum Distillery is located in north-east Grenada. It is a modern marvel and an ecological pioneer, perfectly geared to distilling one region at a time with fresh sugar cane juice to produce a variety of unique sugar cane rum distillates, each unique and compelling in its own way.
The distillery explores these distillates either individually - with the precision of a landscape, as an étude - or combines them - the cuvée concept - to create natural rums of exceptional complexity.
Renegade Nursery
Renegade Nursery
Renegade's pioneering project to grow pure and historic varieties of sugar cane began on this farm, known as the Nursery. Nestled in the La Calome Valley, with its almost terraced valley floor, the Yellow Lady variety of sugarcane used in this rum thrives in the lush "Big Pumps" field, which is interspersed with volcanic rock and clay soil. Distilled and aged using the pot still method, the result is a wonderfully vibrant and refreshing rum of outstanding quality.
Renegade Westerhall
Renegade Westerhall
The southernmost of Renegade's plantations lies between the coastal road and the swampy mangrove forests of Westerhall Bay, opposite a now-derelict distillery. Here, the wet, water-storing soils, enriched by the legacy of coconut and cacao trees, provide a fertile and lush terroir. For this rum, the sugar-rich Clean Ester variety was harvested from the River View field of the Old River terroir.
Renegade Lake Antoine
Renegade Lake Antoine
Around Lake Antoine, fascinating terroirs stretch along the steep, sea-facing slopes of a volcanic crater lake - barren and dry on the upper crater rim, lush and rich on the crater floor. Exposed to the dry and salty trade winds, the sugar-rich 'Purple' variety grown for this rum on the 'Ball Pasture Field' of the 'Lower Crater Lake South' terroir thrives on the grainy Woburn loam.
Renegade Old Bacolet
Renegade Old Bacolet
Situated on the south coast of Grenada, protected from the full force of the Atlantic trade winds, the area known as "Old Bacolet" was one of the first to be cultivated by the French colonists. On this alluvial plain between two rivers, the special loam and clay soils and the high water table make it possible to grow sugar cane in abundance. Here on the "Silk Cotton Tree" terroir, the fast-growing "Lodger" variety thrives for this wonderful single-terroir rum, which is matured in an assemblage of selected French and American oak barrels.