Mount Gay Rum
Mount Gay Distillery kan mycket väl vara världens äldsta romdestilleri. Vid slutet av 1600-talet destillerades rom vid i stort sett alla sockerrörsplantager på Barbados. Mount Gay hette ursprungligen Mount Gilboa Plantation. Namnet Mount Gay fick destilleriet 1801 efter Sir John Gay Alleyne som var talesman för plantageägarna och en betydelsefull person i kampen mot slaveriet. Mot slutet av sitt liv hade han fått ansvaret för romtillverkningen på Mount Gilboa. Han upprättade också handelsförbindelser med Europa och gjorde betydande insatser för utbildningen på ön. Mount Gay gör rom enligt den brittiska skolan. Den är tämligen söt och elegant och är ofta traditionellt potstilldestillerad. I dag ägs Mount Gay av Rémy Cointreau och är det stora franska bolagets västindiska flaggskepp.
Till Barbados kom sjömännen som följde i Columbus kölvatten redan tidigt på 1600-talet. Den östligaste av de karibiska öarna var den första kust de siktade efter långa veckor och månader på det farliga och nyckfulla havet. På stränderna växte märkliga ”skäggprydda” träd som fick ge ön sitt namn, ”bearded Isle, eller Los barbados” på portugisiska. Så snart sockerrören, som Columbus hade med sig från Kanarieöarna på sin andra resa, fick fäste upptäcktes att blad- och stjälkresterna som blev över vid sockerutvinningen lätt började självjäsa i värmen – och steget från jäsning till destillering är inte långt.
Inget vet vem som först destillerade sockerrörsmäsk i Karibien. Barbados brukar föreslås som födelseplats, vilket styrks av de rika kontakterna med Skottland och England (Barbados är den mest anglofierade av öarna Karibien) och av det faktum att ordet rom för första gången dyker upp i engelska språket i mitten av 1600-talet. Men så tidigt som 1628 fanns en flaska ombord på regalskeppet Wasa som identifierades som rom vid bärgningen 1961. Det allra äldsta destilleriet på Barbados tros vara det lilla Mount Gilboa Plantation, som 1801 bytte namn till Mount Gay Distillery för att hedra Sir John Gay Alleyne som gav märket dess framgång.
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