
Six Queensland Distilleries Put a State in One Rum
For the fourth Queensland Rum Day, six distilleries across 2,000 kilometres blended their rums into The Rum Consortium 2026: 5,280 bottles, 40 percent, no added sugar, $119.

For the fourth Queensland Rum Day, six distilleries across 2,000 kilometres blended their rums into The Rum Consortium 2026: 5,280 bottles, 40 percent, no added sugar, $119.

Richard Seale's Signature Creation is the oldest rum Foursquare has ever released: 566 bottles at 53 percent, finished three years in old Port pipes. SRP $1,700.

Fresh juice or molasses, hours or weeks of fermentation, pot or column. The production choices that decide what is in the bottle.

Distillery, still, cask, age: the details conventional labels omit. A small group of bottlers is dragging rum into the light.

Super-premium-plus value rose 5.5 percent globally. Value-tier volume fell from 52 to 42 percent of the US market. Both things are true.