River Antoine Estate

River Antoine Estate is one of Grenada's great rum stops, not because it is slick but because it is gloriously old-fashioned. The distillery dates from the late eighteenth century and still uses a waterwheel to crush cane, with production methods that feel closer to agricultural craft than industrial spirits.

Tours usually walk you through the mill, boiling house, fermentation vats, and stills before a tasting of Rivers rum, which is famously strong. It is a short drive north of Grenville and combines well with Lake Antoine. Drink cautiously if you are driving; this is not polite little tasting-room rum.

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The estate's water-powered crushing mill is not a decorative relic. Sugarcane is still fed through the wheel-driven machinery before fermentation and distillation, making the tour feel less like a museum visit and more like walking into a stubbornly surviving eighteenth-century workplace.