Cristobal Srokowski

  • How To Analyze And Understand Rum: “The 7 Questions About Rum”

    In one of my last masterclasses for waiters and bartenders I asked a simple question: “How do you categorize Rum?” Some of them responded, “White and Dark”, others “Agricole and Traditional”, but almost everyone used…

  • About Ageing Rum PART 3: “The Ageing Systems”

    Understanding Rum labels and selecting the right bottle is a daily struggle for final consumers every time they visit specialized shops or jump onto any online platform. This challenge is mainly caused by the difficulty…

  • About Ageing Rum PART 2: “The Mystique Of Wood”

    The beauty of the universe is its relativity and that’s why nature is not always precise. If you pick two apples from the same tree they will not have the same shape, they will have…

  • About Ageing Rum PART 1: “Why More Is Not Always Better”

    Ancient Greek philosophy already taught us about the balance in life and nature.  Human health needs exercise as much as it needs enough rest; cooking delicious dishes requires taste equilibrium; building fast cars means adding…

  • Rum: The Distillation Puzzle

    If Mr. Aeneas Coffey, the inventor of the first patented two column continuous still in 1830, would have known that almost two hundred years later there would be more than eighteen different models of stills…

  • Rum: Fermentation Craziness

    What defines a high quality perfume? You  would probably respond: “what defines a good perfume is the length of essence persistence on our skin”. That’s right! But what makes the perfume stay on your skin longer?…

  • Rum: The Sugarcane Journey

    In many of my masterclasses the consumers ask which is the best sugarcane. People love to do that! But the answer is not that simple. There is no such thing as the best sugarcane; only…

  • The Three Rum Revolutions And The Beginnings Of Rum

    Rum as a category is possibly the most difficult to understand. One of the reasons could be the fact that, at the moment, there is no existing international law other than Rum must be produced…