Kirk and Sweeney

The Kirk & Sweeney brand is named after a famous wooden schooner that smuggled rum from the Caribbean to the north-eastern United States – mainly to Long Island and New York – during the Prohibition era. The ship was famous for anchoring outside the three-mile zone patrolled by the Coast Guard, which allowed traders to safely pick up their cargo, and was later reportedly captured off the coast of New York with a huge amount of rum. The brand thus embodies the spirit of adventure, daring stories and the historical elegance of the smuggling era.

Kirk & Sweeney rum is produced in the Dominican Republic, more precisely in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, at the renowned J. Armando Bermúdez distillery - one of the oldest and largest distilleries in the country.

Production is subject to strict criteria for the ‘Dominican Rum’ designation: high-quality raw materials, mainly sugar cane and molasses, are processed. This is followed by traditional distillation, gradual ageing in oak barrels (both American and French) and precise blending (the so-called average age process), which is supervised by the master blender.

The Kirk & Sweeney brand was launched in 2012 by 35 Maple Street, part of The Other Guys (later renamed 3 Badge Beverage Corporation) based in Sonoma, California. In 2015, the company underwent rebranding, giving the brand a new dynamic home. The brand continues the family tradition of Sebastiani, whose wine history dates back five generations, and thus carries the architecture of tradition, family identity and affordable luxury.