Yorktown Rum Takes Gold Medal In Los Angeles, California Competition - 91 Points

Our Yorktown Rum has just finished with a Gold Medal winning in an International competition.  The rum came up 91 points in the Los Angeles, California International Spirits competition for 2016 beating out some very big names and we once again beat out Bacardi where they had multiple entries.

  What is even more impressive is we beat out most entries where the rum was aged.  There were only 3 rums that were above us in this competition.  Congratulations to Dictador 20 Year Old Solera System Rum that came in with a very impressive 96 points, Dos Maderas 5+3 Rum that came in with 93 points and Blue Water Ultra that came in with 92 points.  We share 91 points with Cruzan Single Barrel Rum, Cruzan Aged Dark Rum, Kirk and Sweeney Rum. Pelican Harbor Light Rum.

  What we are able to show by all of this is that aging is not a serious factor in the quality of any rum nor is spicing one's rum.  We beat out many of those by using quality ingredients.  Check out the results here at this link below.

http://www.laspiritscomp.com/wos/spirits_competition/documents/Gold%20Medal%20Awards.pdf

Adding flavors to rum did not help anyone in the competition.  Dark rum was not better than a white rum.  Dictador 20 Year Old Solera System Rum is very expensive to produce.  Who wants to age a rum for 20 years?  Sure, it got the company 96 points which is fantastic and they were named best of the best, but at what cost?  (I have to admit, I would be more than happy to try a bottle).  So as you will notice, Cruzan, who we share 91 points with, both of their entries were aged rums.  Again, at what cost?  We did not age our rum at all.  We did not color it nor did we add any additional flavors.  We just used quality ingredients and ran the still the way it's supposed to be run using an historical recipe.

  But that is what we are about.  Bringing to you historical interpretations of what the first rum would have tasted like and ensuring we give you the highest quality product we can produce.  Now it shows.  We are working on some plans to still improve our rum.  We want to take that 96 points next time and we will do it without aging.  We set out sights to the Gold and we easily made it.  Now we are setting our sights on best of the best.  You can rest assured we will make that too.  And best of all, it's all made right here in the Good old USA. Hey, better yet, It's Virginia made in the heart of America's most historical birth place.  Thank you for your support.