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Great work Matt. Thanks for the comparison. There is still a gap in GI you did not address or I didn't not catch, and that is distillation location.

If, for example, a company buys bulk rum from Brazil and ages it Colombia, can the rum be called from Colombia? (I chose random places).

I ask, because I seem to find many rums stating a GI based on where it was aged, not where it was distilled.

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Thanks for the kind words!

Regarding distillation, I deliberately chose to focus only on post-distillation steps. If I tried to do everything in a GI, the comparison would be 5 times longer - at least!

You might say that it would be a very large chapter in a rum book. Which in fact, I have previously done. The Rum Regulations chapter of Modern Caribbean rum has detailed synopses of nearly a dozen GIs.

In any event, every GI that I've seen requires the fermentation and distillation to be in the country claimed by the GI. That is, "Jamaica Rum" *must* be fermented/distilled in Jamaica, regardless of other provisions.

There are some Spanish Heritage countries that buy rums from elsewhere and age themselves. But I don't see them claiming protection under their own country's GI.

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