Arundel Panty Dropper cops Best Tasting Rum title in Grenada
According to CWWA, Panty Dropper beat several other entries to claim the top spot, “bringing a taste of the British Virgin Islands to our celebration of Caribbean flavours”.
Minister for Health and Social Development Honourable Vincent O. Wheatley (R9) and Seven Seas Water Corporation Managing Director Noni M. Georges received the award on behalf of Callwood Cane Rum.
‘Proud moment’
The recognition has also received applause from Premier Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7).
Callwood Rum Distillery stated on its Facebook page: “We are beyond proud to celebrate our very own Arundel Panty Dropper Rum for winning Best Tasting Rum at the 35th Annual CWWA Conference and Exhibition in Grenada!
“A proud moment for Callwood Rum Distillery and the beautiful British Virgin Islands!”
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16 Responses to “Arundel Panty Dropper cops Best Tasting Rum title in Grenada”
Explains a lot.
Their best tasting rum for sure so good to see how highly it is rated elsewhere.
Culture is the shared way of life through which a community understands itself, expresses its identity, passes on its values and maintains its relationship with its past, its environment and other people.
That is no longer farming and fishing being passed on in a meaningful way. It is now fast boats, bigger engines, links, big cars with tinted windows, wheelies on unlicensed scooters. Twerking in the streets virtually naked. It is destroying mangroves at every opportunity. It is the culture of SECRECY, protecting our criminals, promoting guns and protecting drug smugglers. Those are the things that are our shared way of life, how we and our policians express themselves by celebrating criminals on their "Freedom and Emancipation Trailers". Our identity is now expressed not through Christian values as the Christian Council proves every time that they no longer follow those values. But strip clubs and bars, prostitution, fast boats, fast cars, xenophobic and distasteful media (reflecting or are they leading); these how we express our culture and values to others. Our desires to legalise gambling, more gun ownership, smoking dens such as the one that bypasses the laws at the Pier Park. Our culture is reflected more clearly in the disregarded laws of the land and the complete lack of enforcement of even simple traffic rules like tint on windows, running red lights, having licenced cars. VI culture is now to throw all our garbage on the ground, litter our roads with wrecked cars, boats, washing machines, concrete and steel. Our culturally backward ways with droping our garbage, tossing plastic cups from our ferries, open burning dump sites, road side dumps sites speak volumes of who we are now. Our culture is not one of caring for our land or our environment or how we talk and communicate.
Culture is not cooking Johnnie Cakes anymore, weaving hats. They are history, they are gone, culture is when you value and carry these with you, value them and blend them into what you have become. We are probably lucky we have not, as twerking donkeys is not something I need to see.
What is culture in the VI today. Not what we pretend it to be at our poorly attended culture weeks or our disrespected and derelict historical sites.
Now tourists get Twerking Panty Droppers.
I would add that my response has nothing to do with prudity. As a painter and sculptor my lifetime's work has been focused on depicting the beauty of the nude, as against the repulsiveness of the lewd.
My series "Daughters of the Caribbean Sun" originated forty years ago in the Virgin Islands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVQP-63V_6w&t=14s
Instead of giving accolades to unknown rums, made by unknown peoples, from faraway lands, we have our very own, from Arundel Estate, in the 2nd district, making global news!
Awesome, awesome!