Rum cake associated with Christmas in Trinidad and Tobago. In Puerto Rico, rum cake is called "Bizcocho de Ron", and is a sponge cake, so as to absorb the rum. If fruit is added to it, it is fresh or dried. Raisins and sultanas may be soaked in rum for one day or one night. Bizcochos de Ron are given as gifts during the holiday season, but they are not considered an insulting gift, the way fruitcakes in the U.S. sometimes are. In the United States, rum cakes have been popular since at least the 1970s. While many island travelers go out
Selvarey Rum Selvarey Rum SelvaRey Rum is a US-based rum brand whose rums are distilled in Pesé, Panama by Master Blender Francisco "Don Pancho" Fernandez in four antique copper column stills. Pronounced Sel-Va-Rey, the brand name "translates loosely from Spanish to 'king of the jungle' (Selva-Rey)" and "is a nod to Fernandez carving his distillery and sugarcane fields out of the Panamanian wilderness, with the label's gorilla signifying jungle regality." SelvaRey is currently distributed in California, Nevada, Hawaii, New York, New Jersey, Washington D.C., South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Arizona, and Florida Chairman’s Trophy, Flavored Rum for SelvaRey Cacao