Bordeaux Grand Cru Rum

Copeland Distillery

£42

70cl | 42% ABV Limited edition release, inspired by James Hamilton Jr who first brought Bordeaux wine to Ireland in 1633, via Killyleagh Castle in County Down. A marriage of light rum distilled in Donaghadee and dark rum from Barbados, aged in Bordeaux Grand Cru red wine casks. How It s Done The limited edition Grand Cru Bordeaux Rum is a blend of three-to-five year old dark rum from Barbados and double distilled rum produced in the Copeland Distillery. After a 336 hour fermentation, the spirit passes through our copper pot stills; Betty a 600l wash still and Hessie, our 500l spirit still, bef

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Where this comes from

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UK company
Registered at Companies House as COPELAND SPIRITS LTD, number NI635249. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "Located just a stone's throw from the historic Donaghadee Harbour - known in the 17th century as 'The Merchants' Quay' - our 6,500 sqft distillery revitalised the former Picture House Cinema & Ards Bottling Company." Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Where it is made
The maker doesn't say, so neither do we.
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