Macorix House of Rum is now open at centrally located Ave. Francisco Alberto Caamaño 89 in Puerto Plata city. The museum is open Monday to Friday from 8am to 4pm.
The new cultural center should be on the checklist of tourists visiting Puerto Plata. Learn about how quality rum is made from sugar cane, including fermentation and distilling processes and how it is aged in oak barrels. Learn about how Macorix rum was first made in the 1920s.
The museum is open to the general public. Self-guided tours are easy – given the layout of the museum. Guided tours cost US$4 and include the tasting of the different Macorix rums manufactured by Vinícola del Norte. Guided tours to the museum can be arranged with Carola Ramos at Tel 809 683-4656, or contacting her through the Vinicola website at http://www.vinicola.com.do
The rums are sold at a store on the premises.
Macorix Rum was founded by the Carrión family in 1899 in southeastern San Pedro de Macorís, a city known as a town of poets, craftsmen, baseball players and sugar cane. The name of the rum comes from the Macorix indians that inhabited the island.
Vinícola del Norte is the third largest rum manufacturer in the country, after the brands Brugal and Barceló.
25 April 2017
