Originally from the Far East, sugar cane came to Venezuela - via the Dominican Republic, it is believed, where it had arrived from the Canary Islands. It was brought by the Spanish conquistadors who used it to sweeten their food and make their fermented guarapos (sugarcane liquor), predecessors of rum. By the end of the 16th century sugar cane was already being cultivated in the Valleys of Aragua, in the heart of Venezuela. Here in 1796, the Count of Tovar y Blanco founded Hacienda Santa Teresa. In 1885, Gustavo Julio Vollmer Ribas purchased Hacienda Santa Teresa where the original Ron de Venezuela has been produced since the 19th century ...

Clean; light aromas of vanilla with a touch of cocoa; moderate flavors of coconut and banana; taste a bit of toasted pumpkin seeds; moderate pleasant finish.

• Product Code: SD03ST
• Grower: Santa Teresa Distillery
  
• Style: Light and Crisp
  
• Country: Venezuela
  
• Appellation: Aragua
• Spirit Type : Rum
• Alchohol: 40% ABV
• Case Size: Single
• Bottle Size: 70cl

Rating on this rum is 87 (source: tastings.com)

Closure: STELVIN

Alternative wine closures are substitute closures used in the wine industry for sealing wine bottles in place of traditional cork closures. The emergence of these alternatives has grown in response to quality control efforts by winemakers to protect against "cork taint" caused by the presence of the chemical trichloroanisole (TCA).

Screw caps or "Stelvin caps" are closures made only from aluminium material that threads onto the bottleneck. They are the predominant closure used by New Zealand wineries.[8][9] This can be attributed in part to the New Zealand screw cap initiative which promotes the use of screw caps instead of cork. Screw caps form a tighter seal and can keep out oxygen for a longer time than cork. These benefits aid in maintaining the wine's overall quality and aging potential.

Vino-Seal, or Vino-Lok, is a plastic/glass closure released by Alcoa. Since its introduction into the European market in 2003, over 300 wineries have utilized Vino-Seal. Using a glass stopper with an inert o-ring, the Vino-Seal creates a hermetic seal that prevents oxidation and TCA contamination.

Zork is an alternative wine closure that seals like a screw cap and pops like a cork. The Zork closure consists of three parts; an outer cap providing a tamper evident clamp that locks onto the band of a standard cork mouth bottle, an inner metal foil which provides an oxygen barrier similar to a screw cap, and an inner plunger which creates the ‘pop’ on extraction and reseals after use.

The traditional crowned bottle cap has been used in the sparkling wine industry as a closure during the bottle fermentation process (méthode traditionnelle). Normally the cap is replaced with a cork before shipping, though recently some producers are releasing wines using the crown cap as their closure.

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