Goslings Old Rum Family Reserve
In 1806, with a ship full of spirits bound for America, Englishman James Gosling ran out of wind and time. With his charter expired, James’s ship, the Mercury, put him at the nearest landfall: the island of Bermuda. Knowing a good thing when he saw one, he decided to make the best of an uncertain situation. James opened a shop on the King’s Parade, St. George’s, in December 1806 and the Gosling Family has been in Bermuda ever since. Today, Gosling Brothers is Bermuda’s oldest business and
