Kenny Chesney
Mar 31, 2013
Blue Chair/Columbia Nashville artist Kenny Chesney has launched his own brand of rum. Chesney's Blue Chair Bay Rum will be launched this May.
Everybody's always expected this from me," said Chesney. "There have been people who've approached us, stories that have gone around over the years. But rum is what I drink, and I always told myself: if I was going to do this, I wanted to create something I could be really proud of! Not just take a check and a piece of a company, but make the rum I truly wanted to drink."
Kenny Chesney traveled to Barbados with master blender Mike Booth at one of the Caribbean's oldest rum distilleries to get the exact taste that they wanted.
"Anyone who knows me knows I've drunk a lot of rum in a lot of places," continued Chesney.. "And the more you drink, the more you know what you wish you could have. I finally decided there was no reason not to... I'd met some incredible business people who think outside the box like I always have; they also believe in realizing impossible dreams. All I had to do was decide once we started tasting what that flavor that truly felt like the end of the day in the islands was..."
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By Jim Asker