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Don Q is a Puerto Rican rum, distilled, manufactured, bottled, and distributed by Destilería Serrallés from its corporate facility in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Don Q is the top-selling rum in Puerto Rico, where over 70% of the rum consumed in the United States is produced.〔(''DonQ awarded 5 stars.'' ) Puerto Rico Daily Sun. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 15 September 2011. Retrieved 19 October 2011.〕 The rum is named after Don Quijote,〔(''Porta Caribe: Ponce and around.'' ) Stephen Keeling. "The Rough Guide to Puerto Rico." Rough Guides Limited. 2008. Page 218. Retrieved 10 July 2012.〕〔(''Museo/Exposición/Galería de arte Don Q.'' ) Retrieved 2 October 2011.〕 the protagonist in Miguel Cervantes' classic Spanish novel.〔(Ministry of Rum )〕 The rum is sold internationally, competing against Bacardi for market share. Available in the United States since June 2009,〔(''Serralles USA Opens Its Headquarters in Dallas, TX.'' ) Business Wire. Retrieved 18 December 2012.〕 Don Q continues to outsell Bacardi in Puerto Rico.〔(''Rum - Don Q Gold: Destileria Serrallés.'' ) Chris Carlsson. Spirits Review. Retrieved 18 December 2012.〕〔(''Booze Reviews Don Q Rums: Crystal, Gold, Añejo.'' ) Booze Review. March 2010. Retrieved 18 December 2012.〕〔(''Rum Journal: Tasting Don Q Gran Añejo Puerto Rican Rum.'' ) Caribbean Journal. 22 September 2012. Retrieved 18 December 2012.〕 ==History== The Serrallés family migrated from Catalonia to Puerto Rico in the mid-1830s, and established a sugar cane plantation in the outskirts of Ponce. They were successful in harvesting and refining cane sugar and exporting it to the United States, the United Kingdom and France. The plantation became very prosperous, and virtually became a company town, with its own rail line, workers' housing, transportation fleet, commissary, and private—later public—airport (Ponce's Mercedita Airport). Most of these operations were eventually annexed to the municipality of Ponce, in whose lands the plantation is based.〔(Destileria Serralles History )〕 In 1865, the family opened a rum manufacturer at the plantation, ''"Hacienda Mercedita"''. On that year, Juan Serrallés, who would go down as one of the most successful liquor salesmen in Puerto Rican history, imported a still from France, which enabled him to produce his first casks of rum.〔(''Rum: The Epic Story of the Drink That Conquered the World.'' By Charles A. Coulombe. )〕 The Serrallés operation produced various local rum brands, most of which were short-lived. Inspired by the success of other rum producers in the island, the family decided to launch a refined brand with the intention of exporting it elsewhere. The Don Q brand was launched in 1932, and became popular with locals who considered rival Bacardi either harsher in taste or a foreign brand (when Bacardí opened its distilling operations in Puerto Rico in the early 1930s it was considered a Cuban brand since its headquarters were based in Cuba; since the 1960s Cuban revolution, Bacardi has had its headquarters in Bermuda). By the 1960s, Don Q was available on most of Puerto Rico's important supermarket chains, such as Pueblo and others. It also became available at Amigo.〔(Don Q at Pueblo Supermarkets )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Don Q」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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