This is Key West's first legal rum distillery since Prohibition.
Chef Paul Menta's award winning Key West rums are aged in Salt Cured Barrels using locally and naturally-sourced authentic food flavours – Key Lime, Coconut, Madagascar Vanilla crème brûlée – and Florida demerara sugar (never molasses) to produce a rum with flavour depths and aromatic heights worthy of the distinction: Chef Distilled.
Aged in French Oak Barrels that had Red wine and were Salt Cured. Spanish Marie was a Rum Runner who smuggled high proof rum from Cuba to Key West. It is said she would cut her glass of rum with some red wine (no water on the boat to cut the strong rum!)
Spanish Marie was a pirate in the Caribbean Sea who in folklore dumped her weighted down ‘flings’ into the gulfstream leading to her being known as the ‘BAD BITCH’.
The aging in French Oak Barrels provides an amazing taste from the red wine tannins with a rich smooth finish and a note of caramel.