Region Profile - Caribbean
Overall, the Caribbean Region is known for:
Region Overview
The Caribbean is the historic birthplace of rum, with production booming in the 17th century from molasses, a byproduct of the region's sugar industry. Today, over 75 producers across 24 territories create diverse styles, ranging from light, Spanish-style rums in Puerto Rico and Cuba to heavy,, pot-stilled, or grassy rhum agricole in Jamaica and Martinique.
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Caribbean Composite Palate
Caribbean Composite Finish
Caribbean Whisky Producers
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What you smell and taste in a whisky is highly subjective.
Even the pros do not always agree on the tasting notes. Therefore, we have combined the tasting notes from several sources into a cross-section of the most likely Nose, Palate, and Finish to find the commonalities between two whiskies. We use the Aroma Wheel with its concentric circles of increasingly specific tastes and smells (general in the center; more specific the further out you go) to find Exact, Secondary, and General matches between two whiskies. We also take into account other factors such as ABV, region, and price (used as a rough proxy for quality). We then weight each factor based on what we believe to be the approximate importance it has in determining whether two whiskies are similar.
We're all different.
Again, we cannot stress enough that what you smell and taste in a whisky is likely going to be different than the person you're drinking it with. Whisky Mates is meant to be a guide to help you find what you like drinking, using the best methodologies available. In the end, rely on your own palate to tell you what you like and don't like.
