Some of the most interesting rum right now is coming from outside the Caribbean. Fiji's South Pacific Distillery makes a pot-still rum with a tropical funk that independent bottlers can't get enough of: Holmes Cay, Transcontinental Rum Line, Velier, Bedford Park, and Planteray all release Fiji casks, and Bati and Ratu are the island's own labels. The Philippines bring Don Papa, Tanduay, and Kasama; India brings Old Monk and Amrut's Two Indies; Thailand brings Naga; Japan brings Kiyomi and Okinawa's kokuto rum; and Australia brings Beenleigh, aged in the Queensland heat and bottled by Holmes Cay and Dead Reckoning. South Africa's MHOBA, with its heavy pot-still estate rum, and the Batavia arrack of Indonesia round it out. Chips Liquor hunts these down because they taste like nowhere else. Browse our full Asia-Pacific rum collection with fast nationwide shipping delivered straight to your door.
