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Port Mourant
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Port Mourant was one of the many sugar estates in Guyana and was founded in 1732. As with the others, it had its own still as part of its factory operations in order to produce rum using the molasses by-product of its sugar production. Said still is historically significant as it is currently still in use and is one of the only remaining wooden pot stills in the world.
The Port Mourant sugar factory was closed in 1953 with its distilling operations ceasing as well. The estate, located to the east of the Berbice river, was later merged with Albion and is today run by The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo).
While not marketed as brand in the traditional sense, the Port Mourant name is trademarked by Demerara Distillers Ltd (DDL). In its day, rum produced on the estate was sold in casks bearing the marque PM. Even after its closure, PM style rum continued to be made using the distillery's double wooden pot still which was moved to Albion, then Uitvlugt and again to Diamond in 2000.
The earliest official bottling of Port Mourant was released in 2006 through the series of DDL bottlings distributed by Velier SpA. Several more followed in the period to 2014 when the collaboration came to an end. In 2010, a PM marque rum was included in the Connoisseur Range from DDL's flagship El Dorado brand, through which the company now sells a number of Port Mourant labelled rums in its Single Still, Rare Collection and Blended in the Barrel series.
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PM Double wooden pot still
1732-1953