My Green Card

I think Mark Twain said it best in Following the Equator, 1897; “you gather the idea that Mauritius was made first, and then heaven, and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.” I haven’t read it (or any Twain for that matter, though that’ll change if it’s all about Mauritius. Which it surely must be…), that is the blurb printed on the front of every Green Island rum bottle that you’ll find here in Mauritius. Green Island is The Rum here in Mauritius and although (by local standards) it is just your average table rum, it far exceeds ANYTHING I’ve had in Australia.

After taking a bottle home and treating myself to a whiff, I knew immediately that this was not rum that needed to be doused with Coke to render it even remotely palatable. I thought I’d try it first with some fruit juice – wow! Instant amazing party punch! I’d only bought a small 350ml bottle, and it disappeared very quickly, so quick I haven’t been able to try it with anything else, but we’re all in agreement: the rum is good. It’s refreshing to have a rum so smooth and delicious you can enjoy it with fruit juice and it’s not weird!