Denizen Merchant’s Reserve is a blend of small batch Caribbean rums including Plummer style Jamaican pot still rums and a rare component of Rhum Grande Arôme from Martinique. The aged components are aged up to 8-Years in ex Bourbon barrels yielding unparalleled smoothness to rival the world’s best sipping rums. Merchant’s Reserve is the first historically accurate blend of rums used in Trader Vic’s Mai Tai to be sold commercially. The Rhum Grande Arôme component is produced at the Le Galion distillery in Martinique. This is the only high-ester molasses-based distillate produced in Martinique. According to rum cocktail historians, Trader Vic Bergeron used this molasse-based blend from Martinique in the 3rd iteration of his 1944 Mai Tai recipe.