The Wild Geese’s Premium Rum has won a silver medal at an event that showcases the achievement’s of the world’s most talented rum producers.
The product was given the distinction by the annual Global Rum Masters competition, alongside four other silver award-winning and six gold award-winning rums in the same category. The dark, up to seven-year-old category featured “a much wider complexity” of entries than some other categories, the judges claimed.
Premium Rum is described as “an intense, bright gold blend of rums… from Barbados, Jamaica and Guyana”. It is distributed globally by Protégé International.
Protégé chairman André Levy said: “The essence of The Wild Geese brand identity is the heritage, pride and emotional connection that resonates historically and today among the Irish diaspora the world over. The story of the Wild Geese is a story not of failure, separation and sadness, but of determination, unity and success. Capturing that in a glass is what we have striven to do, and the results are there for everyone to see – and taste. To be recognised again within the industry at the highest level for the quality of our rum is a tremendous feat.
“The skull on the label glows under black light and serves as a beacon of resilience. The skull is a representation of pirates, and many people don’t know this, but about 15% of pirates in the Caribbean were actually Irish.”
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