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The transparency is total — every release lists distillation and bottling year, still type, cask type, raw material, marque, and ABV, all with no additives and no chill filtration, bottled at cask strength. The map is genuinely wide: pot still Jamaican from New Yarmouth and St. Catherine Parish, agricole from Saint James in Sainte-Marie, Martinique, an Amburana-then-American-oak Brazilian from Epris, plus releases from Paraguay, Ghana, and beyond. 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