Bacardi Rum Tour

Bacardi Rum Tour

There are but a very few things in this world that both men and women, the old and the relatively young, the affluent and the lacking, share in common feelings of delight and enjoy, and one of these things include the appeal and self-indulgence that only spirits can bring.

One of the leading and most recognizable brands of spirits in the entire planet at this moment is none other than Bacardi which sells an approximate number of more than 200 million bottles of spirits every year. Known for its rums and other spirits of superior quality and taste, Bacardi's current headquarters and main production facility is situated most fittingly at an island in the Caribbean known as Puerto Rico. It is at the capital of this Caribbean paradise that one of Bacardi's major facilities is situated, and those curious as to the history of the company as well as the process of making spirits can appease their curiosity through the Bacardi Rum tours offered at the San Juan, Puerto Rico facilities.

As you would find out when you take the Bacardi Rum Tour offered in the Casa Bacardi San Juan, the Bacardi company is actually a family-owned spirits company. This is rather impressive since there are but a few companies, especially in the spirits business, that has achieved as much success as Bacardi has done over the decades of its existence. The Bacardi Rum Tour goes in depth in featuring the history of the company itself. And why wouldn't it? With as much glory and success that the company, first founded way back on the 4th of Febuary 1862 by Don Facundo Bacardi Masso, has reached at the moment, looking back at the past is an enjoyable and informative experience that Bacardi lovers are sure to delight in.

Parts of the San Juan Bacardi Rum Tour includes The New World, a replica of an old Spanish courtyard as such that would have existed at the time when Don Facundo Bacardi first experimented with making rums. Another area which is part of the well-known Bacardi Rum tour is a large meeting hall of some sorts where the surrounding walls and even the ceiling mimics the picturesque Santiago de Cuba Bay where a relatively large part of the Bacardi family history took place. Although resembling a natural outdoor scene from another country, this area is actually a theater usually used to show videos and documentaries regarding the history of the Bacardi company and family.

Spirits and rum enthusiasts are also sure to get a peak at the process of distilling, bottling and other production phases included in the making of rum. The Bacardi Rum Tour includes visiting distilleries, bottling facilities and even lounge areas both modern and replicas of colonial period ones. One can see the process of distilling rum used more than a century ago as well as drink rum in a cocktail bar not unlike those that the very first customers of the company drank in. The San Juan Bacardi Rum Tour is definitely an experience both enriching in taste and knowledge.