Nation

The activity known as Rum Nation was born in the late 1990s from the Rossi family's experience in the wine and spirits trade. Fabio Rossi launched the rum line in 1999, buying and selecting vintage barrels and developing a collection of single origin, blends and rare single cask releases. Over time the project evolved as a branch of Rossi & Rossi, combining European bottling and finishing activities with a selection of distillates sourced from various producing countries.

Select characteristic rums by origin, enhance their qualities through carefully calibrated finishing and offer bottles that reflect the style of their countries of origin. Favours approaches based on double maturation (tropical / Europe), the use of selected casks for finishes and the promotion of limited editions and single cask releases.

Headquarters and finishing activities in Italy (European operations) with acquisition of distillates from the Caribbean, Central and South America.

Nation is generally not the producer in the strict sense but an independent bottler/selector: it purchases distillates from various distilleries, carries out maturation locally in tropical climates and subsequent finishing in Europe; it uses solera or blending for some releases and applies finishes in sherry/PX or other casks according to the concept of each bottle.

Varied: Nation relies on distillates from multiple distilleries; among the types used are both column stills and pot stills, depending on the rum's origin.

Two-stage maturation (initial ageing in tropical climate in the countries of origin, followed by finishing in Europe/Italy or the United Kingdom); occasional use of solera and finishes in selected casks.