Richland Rum launches in South Africa
Award-winning American ‘farm to glass’ craft rum launches in South Africa America's only single-estate, single-barrel rum is now available in South Africa through Covert Distributions. Richland Rum,...
Best Sipping Rums of 2018: The Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide
Rum is an amazing sipper.Put any of these rums up against the best brandies or whiskeys and you’ll see that well-aged rum deserves an opportunity to please…
Buy This: Three syrups perfect for fall breakfasts, baking and cooking
Generations of Southerners have grown and pressed sugar cane, reducing the juice down to syrup and pouring the result on their biscuits and waffles. Karin and Erik…
FORGET THE FROZEN DAIQUIRIS: 7 AGED RUMS TO SIP AND SAVOR
Rum is finally becoming respectable. Not that the best of it hasn’t always been worthy of respect, of course. But for long as the most decrepit boozehound can remember,…
Martha Stewart Living- In Good Spirits
Though it’s made from organic Georgia sugarcane, Richland Rum has global roots. Karin and Erik Vonk, both Dutch descendants, take cues from a method pioneered in the…
These breweries are in the middle of nowhere Georgia, but totally worth the drive
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 Roll down the windows and enjoy Georgia’s warm breeze on your way to these breweries and a distillery in the middle-of-nowhere.After driving on bumpy…
Huffington Post – Survive Thanksgiving In Style
With that in mind, here’s a handy, Thanksgiving-themed compendium of spirits to help you and your loved ones survive the day. They’re all American, with a focus…
Richland Rum Ages Well in Georgia
Originally from Holland, Erik and Karin Vonk dreamt of producing their own rum the authentic way. Georgia provided everything they needed from the land to grow sugarcane…
Revitalization News
With his wife, Karin, Erik traded in their home-built 20-gallon still for a 200-gallon pot-bellied copper still from Portugal. They released the first bottle of Richland-branded rum in 2012….
Atlanta Magazine
Richland Rum, America’s only single-estate, single barrel rum, helped revitalize downtown Richland, Georgia. Now owners Erik and Karin Vonk plan to do the same in Brunswick. Read…