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*Please note rum purchased in Barbados must be packed in checked luggage to carry home with you due to the security protocol preventing liquids over 100ml or 3.4 oz in carry-on luggage.
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*Please note rum purchased in Barbados must be packed in checked luggage to carry home with you due to the security protocol preventing liquids over 100ml or 3.4 oz in carry-on luggage.
St. Nicholas Abbey Rum is only available for purchase* at the plantation’s gift shop, where visitors can enjoy tastings as well as have their decanters custom engraved in the rum and sugar bond. The gift shop also offers beautiful locally made crafts and food items, including brown sugar, molasses and other homemade goods such as chutneys, jams and jellies made from key ingredients sourced at St. Nicholas Abbey and its surrounding environs.
We are working towards building a brand new Gift Shop which will be conveniently located near the entrance to the estate and will open along with the launch of the railway in November of this 2018.
Please note that our rum refill offer expired on December 31, 2017 and is therefore no longer available to new or existing customers.
St Nicholas Abbey Products are sold exclusively through our Gift Shop at the Abbey. We welcome you to visit and support the Abbey - entrance fee is Bds $46 (US $23) per person. more
If you want to purchase any of our products and do not wish to pay the entry fee, they can be ordered either by emailing melisa@stnicholasabbey.com or telephoning Melisa at (246) 432 6392. Local delivery is $35BBD to anywhere on the island or they can be collected from our office ONLY.
Our rums are hand-bottled in an elegant glass decanter individually etched with an image of the St. Nicholas Abbey great house and sealed with a mahogany cork topped with hand-embossed leather, symbolic of the island’s first mahogany trees, planted on Cherry Tree Hill over 250 years ago. The label is applied by hand and each decanter is engraved with both a number and date to ensure its authenticity.
Sir John, who successfully managed the Mount Gilboa Plantation and Distillery for his friend, John Sober, introduced the same rum distillation methods to St. Nicholas Abbey in the 1750s, which were much more sophisticated than those used by the first settlers. Barbados enjoyed a prosperous rum trade with the American colonies for some time, helping to boost the island's economy, and the plantation also profited from this new line of trade. here
Although the Slavery Abolition Act led to a decline in sugar production throughout most of the Caribbean, Barbados experienced an increase in production, strengthening its role in international trade. This growth was buoyed by several factors; most significantly the agreement plantation owners made with the newly freed labourers - in exchange for a small plot of land and the plantation’s support in harvesting and transporting their crops, the free labourers would work for the plantation during harvest time. [links]
Benjamin Berringer and John Yeamans, collectively owning over 360 acres of land in the island's highlands, enjoyed early success as planters. They burned the brushland to create arable fields; while some land would have been retained for provisional crops, the majority of land on the plantations would have been dedicated to sugar cane.
For several decades, Barbados enjoyed an economic boon; however natural disasters, political unrest, stringent English rule and an increased world supply of tropical products led to declining profits from 1661. It was during this time that John Yeamans and other Barbadians migrated to American Colony known as Carolina in search of greater and more secured prosperity.
Those who remained in Barbados struggled through years of fire, periods of drought and excessive rain, as well as a smallpox epidemic that drastically affected the island's slave population. The depression stretched into the 1700s; to survive, Barbadians participated in both legal and illegal activities to supplement their income. Through struggle and strife the islanders persisted; a survey taken between 1717 and 1721 listed 870 estates and 320 windmills used for sugar production. It is this survey that documents that St. Nicholas Abbey, then known as Dottin Plantation, had adopted windmill-driven production by this time.
Posted over 3 years ago by Alaska Joe from United States with 41 ratings more
Posted 4 years ago by Earl Elliott from Canada with 202 ratings
Floral aroma, first taste is fruit with sour tones. Body not very complex, but nice aftertaste with peach bitter average long aftertaste. [links]
Posted over 7 years ago by Michael from United States with 5 ratings more
Sunday 16th October 12 pm - 6 pm [links]
We recently recieved a lovely thank you on for the bottle of St. Nicholas Abbey Rum that we sent to commemorate the wedding of HRH Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge, and HRH Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge, on 29 April 2011. [links]
St. Nicholas Abbey engraved a bottle of St. Nicholas Abbey Rum to commemorate the wedding of HRH Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge, and HRH Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge, on 29 April 2011.
St. Nicholas Abbey's 10-year rum was recently reviewed by RnD Rum Reviews at the Caribbean Rum and Beer Festival in Barbados.
Our new White rum which was awarded the Bronze Medal at the 2012 International Wine and Spirits Competition in London, the highest medal awarded in its category, is now available to purchase at our plantation in Barbados. It can also be purchased at http://www.masterofmalt.com/distilleries/st-nicholas-abbey-rum-distillery/
Saturday 15th October 5 pm - 9 pm