St. Lucia Distillers

st lucia distillers group of companies emerged from a tradition of the on-site, house-special rum production that was a common feature of the west indian sugar plantation. sugar’s by-product, molasses was fermented and distilled to rum, the demand for which has been a constant through the fluctuations of west indian plantation economies. by the late 1950s, two distilleries remained, one at dennery, the site of the barnard family plantation, and the other geest-owned at roseau, the location of the now st lucia distillers group of companies. formed in 1972 when the two distilleries amalgamated producing a now-discontinued blend of rum whose name reflected the merger, denros bounty rum. the barnard family bought out the geest shares in 1992 and in 1997 sold shares to trinidad-based angostura ltd., giving the company a wider regional presence and the capital to pursue the product development philosophy which has since characterised st lucia distillers group of companies. in 2005 the barnar