Rum baba the idea of soaking a dried Gugelhupf (a cake roughly similar to the baba and common in Alsace-Lorraine when he arrived there) or a baba with alcoholic spirit. Another version is that when Stanislaus brought back a baba from one of his voyages it had dried up. Nicolas Stohrer, one of his pâtissiers (or possibly just apprentice pâtissiers at the time), solved the problem by adding Malaga wine, saffron, dried and fresh raisin and crême pâtissière. The writer Courchamps stated in 1839 that the descendants of Stanislaus served the baba with a saucière containing sweet Malaga wine mixed with one
Selvarey Rum at the Ultimate Spirits Challenge. 2014. RumXP Gold Award for SelvaRey Cacao at the Miami Rum Festival 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