Ron Santa Teresa

By the end of the 16th century, sugar cane was already being grown in the valleys of what is now Aragua state, in northern Venezuela. In 1796, Count Martín Tovar Ponte, a signer of the Venezuelan Act of Independence, named the estate in honor of the patroness “Santa Thereza”. After the property suffered damage caused by the royalist forces during the War of Independence, a young man of German descent, Gustav Julius Vollmer Ribas, grandson of the general José Félix Ribas, purchased the estate. Taking advantage of the proximity of the Great Venezuela Railway, he scaled up rum production in the 1890s.

Starting from 1989, the estate began offering guided tours of the property to explain the rum-making process and showcase its facilities. Among the attractions are "The Rum Route", which includes the "Tovar House", the "Rum Museum", the "Private Cellar", the "Solitary Hatchery", the La Guadalupe sector, the coffee roaster, the cane fields, the "Aragua Cross", the distillery, the bottling plant and the former train station of El Consejo.