Inspired by the diverse and vibrant rum culture of the Caribbean islands and a yearning for fine Australian spirits, distiller Paul Messenger, along with his wife Mandy and daughters Harriet, Edwina & Claudia, embarked on a journey to create a plantation distillery on their cattle & cane farm, nestled in the green caldera surrounding Mt Warning in Northern NSW. Their vision was to create a premium, paddock to bottle agricole rum with a unique Australian expression.

Their journey is now in it's eighth year, where they’ve had to develop new skills and adapt new methods of small-scale cultivation, harvesting and crushing not used in the area before. They’ve designed our distillery based on fermentation, distillation and maturation methods not typically used in commercial rum distilleries and the result is a rum that they are proud to say has the unique characteristics of this part of the world - their provenance.