Rum

Tristão Vaz Teixeira

Velho 3 Years Old, 70cl

Madeira, Portugal

Tristão Vaz Teixeira

Madeira Agricultural Rum with Protected Geographical Indication – PGI.

The Tristão Vaz Teixeira Velho Rum is exclusively obtained through alcoholic fermentation of fresh sugar cane juice, followed by distillation and aged for 3 years in French oak casks.

A tribute to one of the discoverers of Madeira and the man responsible for its colonization. By a donation letter from Infante Dom Henrique, he received on May 8, 1440, the captaincy of Machico, becoming the first Captain of the Donatary of this captaincy.

Allergens information

Contains sulphites.

Engenhos do Norte

On the north coast of Madeira, in the village of Porto da Cruz, there are the Engenhos do Norte. This island was during the XV and XVI centuries the most famous sugar producer in the world, precisely in the period when this good was much more valuable than it is today, so much so that the Europeans of that time knew it by “White Gold” and they used it in cooking, in sweets and even as a decorative element and ostentation. The Porto da Cruz mill is one of the three old mills operating in Madeira. Built in 1927, as a result of the fusion of some of the fifty or so existing ones on the island, it still uses the machines of that time, being the only one in Europe to use steam as a driving force. Among other equipment of this time we highlight the wood burning boiler, built by Jones Burton & Comp. Lda, of Liverpool, another boiler fueled with firewood and mill waste, manufactured in the defunct Arsenal of St. James, which was a landmark of the industry in Madeira, several steam pumps and in full operation, several copper tubs that served to the manufacture of honey, a serpentine also used in copper used in the manufacture of rum and the French stills of the brand Barbet in column with 7.50 meters of height that still produce agricultural Rum of Madeira.

Address

Rua do Cais nº6, 9225 – Porto da Cruz