The senior guys at Australia's Colonial Sugar Refining Company knew what they were doing. They wanted to distil the finest rum possible and no expense was to be spared. But they kept it all for themselves and their inner circle of key clients.

In the 1970s word eventually got out and the company was finally forced to release one of the world's best rums to an eager public.

Today, Inner Circle, which has been judged Best Rum at the prestigious International Wine & Spirit Competition in London for the past four years, is still carefully crafted in small batches using the traditional process of pot distillation perfected by CSR over 100 years ago. We reckon if it ain't broke, don't fix it.