St Helena White Lion rum commemorates the island's celebrated 'sunken treasure' shipwreck, Dutch vessel Witte Leeuw, sunk in James Bay in 1613 after a brief but spectacular naval action with the Portuguese. Returning from Java, she was carrying peppercorns, nutmeg, cloves, diamonds and precious Chinese Ming porcelain. Armed with 30 bronze cannons, one of which is in the Museum by the famous Jacobs Ladder cliff staircase [pictured] which inspires our unique bottle design, and close to the St Helena Distillery itself. Other artefacts recovered by divers in 1976 are in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum.

White Lion Spiced Rum is an authentic homage to the favoured liquor of the Seventeenth Century sailors who first combined pure white rum and the exotic spices of the Orient with which they had become uniquely familiar. Today it is produced in exclusive quantities and blended at the world's most isolated working distillery by the Jamestown foreshore.