Rum Aldea, history and pride of the Canarian people

 

86 years ago, in 1936, Manuel Quevedo Alemán founded the Aldea Rum factory in the Village of San Nicolás de Tolentino, one of the leading companies on the island after almost a century of existence. After returning from Funchal in 1934, Manuel began to develop the Aldea Rum project, opening the doors of his distillery just two years later. 

 

Born in Arucas, he began to become familiar with the sugar industry from a very young age. Later he emigrated to South America where he lived in various places and continued to be linked to the sugar business. 

 

 

At the beginning of the 1919th century, he returned to the archipelago and worked with his family in the Bañaderos sugar factory, a company that he would later direct. The effects of the First World War took a toll on the factory's production, causing Manuel to decide to sell it in XNUMX to the Portuguese businessman Enrique Figueroa Dasilva, who would move the company to the city of Funchal, in Madeira and would continue to rely on Manuel's experience. for the proper development of the factory's activity.

 

Manuel spends more than a decade in Madeira, where he continues to expand with Figueroa his already extensive experience in relation to the sugar and rum industry; However, in 1934, after Figueroa's bankruptcy, he began to develop his most successful project: the Aldea Rum factory.

 

 

The opening of the factory coincides with a renewed sugar cane cycle in the Canary Islands, something that drives the novel project; but without a doubt the differentiating factor of Manuel Quevedo with his competition for incorporating a pioneering technique in distillation, which he begins to produce directly through cane juice. This new method used freshly ground cane juice, commonly known as guarapo, which ensured a much purer and more natural flavor in the product after the distillation process.

 

The families and workers of Ron Aldea have known how to adapt to the changes and difficulties they have encountered over the years, since a move to the island of La Palma in the mid-XNUMXth century at the hands of Carmelo Quevedo (son de Manuel) to a plane accident that, fortunately, did not cut short the future of the Canarian company. 

 

 

Almost a century later since the opening of its first factory, Ron Aldea has managed to maintain its essence and personality, positioning itself as one of the most prominent and characteristic companies in the archipelago, which has helped it receive the 2022 Canary Islands Family Business Award, a recognition that highlights the more than 80 years of history and effort on the part of the family that makes up Ron Aldea.