Grand Prizewinner Will Win a 7-Day Trip to Barbados Including a Deluxe Pass to the Annual Barbados Rum Experience
Corona del Mar, CA (June 30, 2025) – Probitas, the award-winning multi-island white blended rum which has set a new gold standard for use in cocktails, has announced the six regional finalists of its “Home & Away” drink recipe contest. The competition challenged bartenders to create a unique Daiquiri-inspired cocktail, blending “Home” (local) and “Away” (distant) flavors into one unforgettable cocktail – just like Probitas Rum, a fusion of rums from Barbados and Jamaica. The winner receives a seven-day trip to Barbados, including a Deluxe Pass to the annual Barbados Rum Experience.
Participants submitted a daiquiri-inspired cocktail recipe which included Probitas White Blended Rum (or a non-alcohol alternative) and combined the contrasting themes and flavors derived from home (that is, a familiar place such as where participants live, grew up or consider a “home place”) and away (that is, somewhere new and different). Entries were judged on the following: persuasiveness and effectiveness of capturing the Competition theme; quality of instructions for preparation of cocktail; originality and creativity; and “balance” of flavors in the cocktail.
Six regional winners advance to the competition finals at a private event during “Tales of the Cocktail” in New Orleans on Monday, July 21, where they will mix up their signature cocktail in front of an esteemed panel of rum professionals. They include:
- Michael Nathan (CA)
- Establishments: Viridian/Dalida
- Cocktail: “Far from the Tree”
- Nathan Thurnau (MO)
- Establishment: Good Company Taps & Spirits
- Cocktail: “High Plains Ronin”
- Cesar Gustavo Perez II (IL)
- Establishment: The Victor Bar
- Cocktail: “Valley of Stones”
- Tomas Cantu (TX)
- Establishment: The Roosevelt Room
- Cocktail: “Ikigai Daiquiri”
- Jerry Lopez (FL)
- Establishment: The Neighbors
- Cocktail: “Apples & Alps”
- Gustav Hossain-Endl (NY)
- Establishment: Shore Leave
- Cocktail: “H&E Frozen Daiquiri”
For the official Probitas “Home & Away” recipe contest rules, please visit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SrdbriH9qov9tz37X6k8CP8HABuiCkru/edit?tab=t.0
About Probitas White Blended Rum
Probitas comes from two of the most iconic distilleries in two of the most respected islands in the Caribbean for rum making – Foursquare Rum Distillery in Barbados and Hampden Estate in Jamaica. This is the first time that a White Blended Rum has been made entirely in the Caribbean, from multiple islands and producers, with components selected by the rum makers themselves.
Probitas is a blend of three distinct rums, blended by Master Distiller and Master Blender Richard Seale of Foursquare Rum Distillery in Barbados and marks the first time there has been a joint venture between Caribbean distilleries to produce a blended rum. The components include Unaged Pot Still Rum from Hampden Estate in Jamaica selected by Mr. Vivian Wisdom (Hampden’s Master Distiller at the time of blending), along with Unaged Coffey Still Rum and Two-year Aged Pot Still Rum from Foursquare Rum Distillery in Barbados, selected by Richard Seale.
Probitas White Blended Rum is distilled, matured, blended, and bottled in the Caribbean. No sugar, flavor, color, nor neutral/multi column spirit added. The expression was bottled at 47% ABV (94 proof) and is available throughout the U.S. and online for the suggested retail price of $29.99. For more information, please visit https://altamarbrands.com/brands/probitas-rum/ and Probitas on Instagram.
About Barbados Rum Experience
For more information, please visit https://barbadosrumexperience.com/
About Altamar Brands LLC
Founded in 2005 by W. L. Lyons Brown, III, Altamar Brands is a small, entrepreneurial outfit founded to develop and import esoteric, artisanal spirits brands that offer unique and distinctive production stories in their respective categories. They include High n’ Wicked Whiskeys, Foursquare Exceptional Cask Selections Rums, Probitas Rum, R.L. Seale’s 12-Year-Aged Barbados Rum, Elvelo Tequila, Kubler Absinthe, Right Gin and Lágrimas del Valle Tequila. For more information, please visit https://altamarbrands.com/
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