Meeting With the Crew from Veritable

Recently, (February 6) we met with the crew from Veritable because we wanted them to see our operation at Taugwonk and also to share some of our wine and the rum we brought back from Hawaii. Jacob, Finn, Damien and Joel came.

We showed them around our facility and answered some of questions that they had about fermentation. It turns out that although fermentation begins in a similar way with making beer, Joel is in charge of that, in making wine, we let the carbon dioxide escape while in making beer, trapping the carbon dioxide is critical to the carbonation that is part of beer.
We then had them taste our 2019 Chenin Blanc. We also opened up a 2019 Late Harvest Chenin. We moved on to the Ko Hana rum that we brought back from Hawaii and tasted it with the Manoa Ko Hana chocolate.

The Ko Hana was very smooth and went perfectly with the chocolate. It was easy to take small sips of the rum and chase it with a bit of chocolate.
Fin explained to us that the word Agricole is a French term that means rum made from sugar cane juice and not from the byproduct of sugar production which was molasses. Fin said that Napoleon had a lot to do with the rise of Rum Agricoles.

References:
1. Pierini, Marco, "A History of French Rum 5. Napoleon, Sugar Beet And Rum, The Rum University, October 22, 2019.