Worthy Park Estate, Jamaica’s second-largest rum company, hosted a tour of its Lluidas Vale property on August 16, 2022, International Rum Day. The tour involved an excursion of sections of the estate, the distillery, bottling, packaging, and storage facilities.

The rum tour highlighted that the average annual sugar output of the factory is 24,000 tonnes. All rum produced in the distillery needs molasses and all of the molasses comes from Worthy Park’s very own sugar factory. The average annual molasses production is between 8,000 and 9,000 tonnes; with 2022 also being a record year as the company produced 9,637 tonnes. This molasses is then piped one kilometre away to the distillery.

At the end of the tour patrons were given the opportunity to taste five of Worthy Park’s products with a tour guide providing instructions on what to look, smell and taste for.

In 1962 there was an oversupply of Jamaican rum following World War II and, under agreement with the Spirits Pool Association of Jamaica, production ceased. With the completion of a state-of-the-art distillery in 2005, Worthy Park returned to the rum business. Being the newest distillery, it was built with efficiency in mind and designed to maintain the highest level of quality.