Bangkok--3 Aug--Vivaldipr
Kittipat Chaiyakul, Marketing Director for Remy Cointreau (1st from left); Laurent Soulat, Regional Marketing Manager, Southeast Asia Middle East India, Remy Cointreau (2nd from left); and Evan Seah, Business Development Director, Remy Cointreau Asia Pacific (1st from right) on behalf of Remy Cointreau Group, a major operator in the world of premium spirits has launched a new rum, “Mount Gay Rum Extra Old” - one of the oldest commercially available rums of its type in the world, at the 9th Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek 2012 with special celebrity guests, Mathew Dean and Lydia Sarunrat Visutthithada. Mount Gay Rum Extra Old is set to become one of the best choices for premium rum drinker in Thailand.
Mount Gay Rum is sold in 66 countries worldwide. As evidence of its profound and privileged relationship with the sea, with sailors and with ships, every year Mount Gay Rum proudly sponsors over 120 regattas around the globe, including Phuket Raceweek, Asia’s fastest growing regatta, and the world-renowned Mount Gay Rum Red Cap; a symbolic representation of the top echelon of the sport. With an intimate relationship lasting over 120 years, Mount Gay Rum is recognised as the only rum of the sports sailing and the yachting community worldwide.
“Mount Gay Rum Extra Old” is a result of a patient aging process coupled with the blending expertise of Master Blender, Allen Smith. This brilliantly luminescent amber rum with a luxurious, complex bouquet; 15 years in the making have resulted in a class-leading Barbados rum of gently balanced notes of banana, mocha, oak and vanilla — created on the theme of “Simply Taste and you’ll Believe.”
Remy Cointreau International, a subsidiary of Remy Cointreau Group is a major operator in the world of premium spirits. Its portfolio of high added value brands includes Remy Martin Cognac, Cointreau, Piper Heidsieck and Charles Heidsieck Champagne, St. Remy Brandy, Mount Gay Rum, Metexa Greek Rum, Passoa, and world’s most luxurious cognac, Louis XIII.