A festival in Europe had the most expensive rum in the world, but not necessarily for drinking. This bottle, dating back to the 1940s, is worth over $54,000 USD. It’s one of four unopened bottles of a blend of Wray and Nephew Rums. In fact, some of the rums used are over ninety years old at this point.
Wray and Nephew Rum
(Via BBC News.)
The Jamaican distillers who bottled this blend were forced to abandon their traditional distillation methods due to the 1930s Mai Tai craze draining their supplies. That makes this rum especially valuable, as it comes from that lost tradition.
Máximo Extra Añejo
(Courtesy of The Gate.)
Another bottle that might hold the claim as the world’s most expensive rum was recently launched from Havana Club. The Máximo Extra Añejo, the most expensive rum ever sold in Canada, is yet another blend of older rum reserves. Only nine bottles of this rum were made available.
The Wray and Nephew bottle was on display at RumFest, Europe’s first ever rum festival. The Máximo Extra Añejo is on sale in Toronto’s Summerhill LCBO for a mere $2000 CAD.
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