{"type":"root","children":[{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"type":"text","value":"Old Road Rum sits on Wingfield Estate at Old Road Town, the point of the first English land grant in the West Indies, established 1625. Sugar, then rum, ran from this ground until the early twentieth century, when the distillery fell out of use. The Widdowson family bought the estate in 1970. Beginning in 2010, Jack Widdowson and his collaborators began uncovering the original distillery footprint, working out from a single red brick. They found an intact aqueduct, chimney, boiling house, lime kiln, and the foundations of the still itself, plus inscriptions dated 1681 signed by Christopher Jefferson, the owner at that time and an ancestor of America's third president Thomas Jefferson. The 1681 date made Wingfield the oldest surviving rum distillery footprint in the Caribbean on record."}]},{"type":"paragraph","children":[{"type":"text","value":"The Old Road Rum Company was founded by Jack Widdowson and Ben Taylor to bring commercial rum production back to St Kitts. The current 12 Year is distilled in partnership with Foursquare in Barbados, aged twelve tropical years in ex-bourbon American oak, then blended and hand-bottled at Wingfield. A working St Kitts distillery is the next phase of the project. The flagship 12 Year was named Rum of the Year at the 2025 International Bartender Spirits Awards and The World's Best Rum by Forbes in June 2025. Alfie's Bar, the on-site tasting room, is built into the original 1681 stonework and named for the last head distiller who worked the original still."}]}]}