The Caribbean’s Best New Rooftop Bar Sits Above a 150-Year-Old Beachfront Rum Distillery 

There was a rum distillery here a century and a half ago. Today, it’s a sugarcane memory, steps from the beach on the eastern coast of Martinique. But there’s still rum here, in more ways than one.  The Hardy family has been making rum in some form for more than five generations, and while the still is just an artifact, the cane field out back is still lush and swaying, and the shop is filled with a range of white and well-aged expressions of very fine Martinique rhum agricole.  It’s a testament to the power of family, of passion, of the enduring story of Martinique’ most famous export,