Miami Rum Renaissance Festival

About this happenin

Several hundred rums are poured at the Miami Rum Renaissance Festival in Coral Gables, where Friday seminars lead into a Saturday Grand Tasting at the Coral Gables Woman's Club. The seminars, at the Courtyard by Marriott, put people who build rum brands in front of a room to talk history and production, with rum to taste and food at the breaks. On Saturday several dozen rum companies pour unlimited samples, and a tasting glass comes with the ticket. VIP tickets get in at 12:30 and general admission at 2. The tasting runs until 5, and tickets bought online ahead cost less than the door. A separate Private Collection bar pours rare and limited bottlings from collectors' private libraries, on tasting tickets that benefit a local non-profit. Parking around the building is free but limited, and the Freebee electric ride service is free too. The tasting fills the two halls of a coral rock clubhouse, the city's first Depression-era WPA project, on the National Register of Historic Places since 1990.

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Where

Coral Gables Woman's Club · 1001 East Ponce de Leon Blvd, Coral Gables, FL 33134