Business View Caribbean | October 2019

59 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN OCTOBER 2019 percent alcohol by volume, and is often blended with other ingredients to produce a distinctive flavour. SLR is a smooth, white rum, bottled at 40 percent alcohol by volume. Captain Bligh XO and Sparrow’s Premium Rum are both aged rums with unique, smooth, palatable flavors to satisfy all the “brown rum” aficionados. Phillippa Greaves, Marketing Manager of St. Vincent Distillers, acknowledges, “The distillers get all the credit here for the distilling and bottling of these fine elixirs, which are sought after by wine connoisseurs, internationally, as a result of the many world rum awards and accolades that our brands have received.” Between 2001 and 2010, the timing was right to modernize the plant. A complete renovation was undertaken with the replacement of old asbestos roofing; replacement of eight old mild steel vats with stainless steel vats; purchase of a new bottling and labelling machine (previously, labels were put on bottles by hand); purchase of a new large Cochrane boiler; two new water treatment ST . V INCENT DI ST I LLERS L IMI TED