Martinique Rhum Awards is an incredible event

Martinique is the overseas department of France and an amazing island located in Lesser Antilles between Dominican Republic and Saint Lucia. On the island, rum is made of agricole, or craft, made only from sugar cane juice. Without doubts on Martinique I have experienced an extraordinary adventure. READ MORE

Why is it worth visiting Wroclaw

Rum Love Festival will be at Czasoprzestrzeni – Zajezdni Dąbie już po raz piąty 21-22.06.2024.

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Who we are

The most aromatic festival affects Poland with a passion for rum.

Nearly 1,300 participants, 300 types of spirits and 35 exhibitors from around the world. Two days of workshops, concerts and an unforgettable atmosphere. This atmosphere was missing in Wroclaw for two years. Due to the pandemic, the Rum Love Festival had to be canceled. In 2023, the event returns with a big bang – a bang of fun. What will the organizers surprise all of rum Poland with this time?
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BlackBeard barber&barrel house

We pay homage to the classics in one of the buildings at Tęczowa Street in Wroclaw. There can be no other place for the craft than the one covered with a thick mantle of history. For the barber, there cannot be any other place like this with the atmosphere and space that is conducive to creativity and creating a future from the past.
BlackBeard is a new place with a classic soul. This is the place where a professional will take care of hair and beard, and you will relax with a glass of whiskey, rum or other drink. BlackBeard is not just a barber – it’s a cultural place on the map of Wroclaw, where the passion of creation is combined with fashion, classic and back to the past.
It is a great idea for a business meeting, combined with training, conference or a summary of business successes.
It is worth to meet with your colleagues on a different ground than work. We invite you to choose one of our offers or to contact directly, so we could help you create an offer tailored to your needs.

Aroma

1. Fruit family: family with the larger amount of aroma, also the most developing family among white and older rums. This family consists mostly of small aromatic molecules called esters, alcohols or aldehydes of low molecular weight, which are very volatile and are easily perceptible by the sense of smell. Evolution from white to aged rum allows us to detect 6 subfamilies:
2. 1* Citrus fruits (lemon, mandarin, orange, grapefruit…)
   2* Exotic fruits (pineapple, banana, mango, passion fruit…)
   3* Cooked fruits (marmalade, jam, fruit paste, jelly…)
   4* Fruit alcohols (brandy, kirsch…)
   5* Dry fruits (figs, plums…)
   6* Nuts (hazelnuts, almonds, coconuts…)
   2. Floral family: floral notes also come from very small molecules, mainly aldehydes divided into 4 subcategories:

   1* Orange flower (neroli, lemongrass, orange blossom…)
   2* Medicinal flowers (linden, hawthorn, verbena…)
   3* Honey (acacia, honey, sugarcane, reed flower…)
   4* Herbal family Herbal notes are the most frequently represented by dry herbs (tea, hay).

   3. Spice family: With spicy notes (pepper, nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla…) we deal with heavier molecules, which are more difficult to smell with the nose. Mostly we find them in old rums.
   4. Balsamico family: this family represents camphor, eucalyptus or resin notes. They are very large aromatic molecules with a very low profile of perception.
   5. Empyreumatic family: in this case, we come across heavy molecules with 3 subcategories:

    

   1* Roast (coffee, mocha, chocolate…)
   2* Roasted/burnt (toasted bread, burnt sugar, molasses, burnt wood…)
   3* Licorice 
   These families come from thousands of chemical molecules. Every stage of rum production is responsible for evolution some of those molecules and it gives final outcome by combining different raw materials and production techniques for our rums.

   This also allows us to define three aroma families, which represents which represent rum shortages caused by problems during production, poor fermentation or incorrect temperature during distillation.

   6. Chemical family: Referring to a chemical memo, when rum is oxidized during aging, it contains notes of solvent, ether or oxidized apple. We can also detect an undesirable metallic aftertaste, due to insufficient cleaning of the columns.
   7. Phenolic notes: (ink, phenols, paint …) derived from very high distillation in the column are most often seen as defects, but they can also be the desired result.
   8. Sulfite family: sulfite notes. These molecules are very heavy and must be extracted to a very high degree to remove them from the distillation column. We can find them in rum that has been stored in the barrel for too long. We can recognize these notes by their unpleasant smell, like boiled vegetables, garlic or rot.
   9. Fermentation family: these notes are created only as a result of fermentation problems and we can classify them into four subfamilies

   1* baked goods (bread…)
   2* lactose (milk, butter…)
   3* yeasts
   4* butyric (stale, overly ripe fruits…)