Grenada’s Renegade Rum Distillery, known for its “Farm to Bottle” approach, is officially for sale. 

The facility began commercial production in 2022 and was founded by Mark Reynier, the entrepreneur behind the rescue and sale of Bruichladdich to Rémy Cointreau in 2012, and founder of Waterford Distillery in Ireland.

The idea behind Renegade was to move rum away from its molasses-based, industrial roots and build a spirit that celebrated soil, local farms and microclimates. 

EY Parthenon Caribbean is leading the sale of the distillery, as managing partner Maria Daniel said: “Across the spirits industry, sustainability happens at the margins; lighter packaging, cleaner inputs. The core imbalance stays the same. Value sits downstream, while farmers capture only a fraction of it. Renegade was built to close that gap. Farm to bottle isn’t a marketing line, it’s a structural model. Our cane is locally sourced and processed on site, byproducts returned to the soil, an all-female, entirely neighbourhood production team. It’s a fully integrated platform that keeps value at source.” 

Every bottle of Renegade carries a ‘Cane Code’, tracing the rum back to the specific farm, plot and harvest date behind it. 

Production is also built for self survival, with agricultural residue converted into energy, steam fed back into operations, and distillation byproducts returned to the soil.

The sale comprises a “rare beast in what feels like a time of either multimillion bottle production or artisanal family set ups; a finished distillery, a real terroir and traceability story, and a sustainability model few in the category, let alone industry, can match”, the group added.