Rhum Rhum

An idea, perhaps more than an idea, a dream, an unspecified impulse that simmered under the embers and began to take shape when I first arrived in Marie-Galante at the end of the last century.

Thanks to Dominique Thierry, Gianni Vittorio Capovilla and my brother Paolo, this dream came true. Rhum Rhum is the best Rhum Agricòle in the world for the simple reason that it takes all the variables of production to excess, it is a study in technique, it is an experiment.

It is not comparable to any rhum that has ever been produced to be marketed. It stems from the intention to produce the best rum possible."

The story of Rhum Rhum is the story of a passion, Luca Gargano's for the Caribbean, born when, very young, he visited a world that was still uncontaminated and very rich in terms of rum. Over the past thirty years, after witnessing the gradual disappearance of sugar cane and the closure of so many distilleries, Luca has matured an ever-stronger desire, that of producing a great rhum as it once was, a 'rhum-rhum', in fact.

A dream favoured by two encounters: the one with the uncontaminated island of Marie Galante and therefore with Dominique Thierry, owner of the Bielle distillery, which still produces rum at 59° as in the Antilles of the 1970s; and the one with Gianni Capovilla, one of the best distillers in the world.