If it is top quality rum like Mount Gay XO , mixed with ice only
rum
I did some research and found that most rum is in fact imported from the West Indies
Triangular Trade
Triangular trade
sugar and rum
Native, sugar, molasses, rum
The New England colonists exported rum to the French West Indies.
tia maria
Rum is a distilled alcohol made from sugar cane juice in the West Indies.
triangular trade
Although debate continues as to where rum was first produced, by the late seventeenth century the liquor was being distilled in the American colonies using molasses from the West Indies
Ships would take rum to Africa and trade for slaves; take the slaves to the West Indies and trade them for molasses; and take the molasses to a distillery and have it processed into rum. The word is "triangular."