NOVA SCOTIA RUM SETS SAIL ON A 15-MONTH AGING VOYAGE

A Nova Scotia distillery will send four barrels of rum this week on an around- the- world trip on a tall ship, promising it will taste better for the journey. The rum from Lunenburg’s Ironworks Distillery will spend the next 15 months in the cargo hold of the threemasted tall ship Picton Castle. The Lunenburg-based ship is known for its adventurous sail training voyages, and “this will be their seventh and last complete around-the-world circle,” Ironworks co- owner Lynne MacKay said. They decided to mark the final trip with rum that will be bottled upon return in May 2019 as Round the World Rum. “The movement of the spirit in the oak actually makes it a more complex and interesting spirit when it arrives back on land,” MacKay said.