Gringo Tours is proud to present our newest and most exclusive tour. Join us on this limited edition small group tour of El Salvador’s first Rum distillery. The Ron Cihuatán distillery is located just 45 minutes from Suchitoto and San Salvador and in 2018 opened its doors to Gringo Tours allowing us to share this rum tasting and production adventure with travelers from around the world. Because we will be visiting a working distillery (solera ageing, blending and bottling areas), the tour is only offered once or twice a month and on demand and depending on the actual production schedule making it necessary to schedule visits well in advance.

This tour is not open to the public and is coordinated by Gringo Tours owner Robert Broz and the Team at Ron Cihuatán. In the economic re-opening in late 2020 several other tour companies and guides were given access and now offer tours of the Cihuatán distillery, but with Gringo Tours our clients are given access to tasting some of the high end rums only found for sale at the Airport and distillery where they can be purchased at substantially lower price. Tasting of the high end rums are not provided with our competitors making Gringo Tours your best option for the Cihuatán Rum Tour.

The rum tasting tour is given by the head of production in the solera storage warehouses where sampling of the raw distilled alcohols as well as samples from different solera barrels will help fully understand the complexity of fine solera rum blending. When available the master Rum maker, Gabriela Ayala will join the tour explaining how she developed each of the Cihuatán Rums.

The tour finishes in the bottling area where tasting of both bottles of rum included with our tour is provides as well as the chance to taste some of Cihuatán’s best rums. Tourists will also be able to purchase any of the rums available and at a better price than anywhere else!

The tour does not include the actual distillery where the alcohol is made, as it is an industrial plant within the La Cabaña sugar refinery. Our guide will tell you all you want to know about the sugar cane production and processing as we drive from the city or Suchitoto. 

To schedule tours of the Cihuatán distillery we need a minimum of five workdays, this to coordinate with the distillery and insure the quality tour that both Cihuatán and Gringo Tours always tries to provide to our clients from around the world. For security reasons at the Cabañas processing plant we are also required to a list of our clients’ full names as well as provide digital copies of their passports or IDs as well as vehicle descriptions and license plate numbers.   

Since August 2018, we have been offering these new and exclusive tours which we hope to continuing making available to our clients in the future and as the demand increases. All of our past clients have said that this is the best rum tour they have ever experienced! If interested, please let us know as soon as you have your available dates so that we can make arrangements for you or your group to enjoy this unique and wonderful experience. The tour of Ron Cihuatán’s production area (solera ageing and blending and bottling) will include tasting of different Salvadoran rums exclusive to Ron Cihuatán, each with its own distinct flavors and character. As we are enjoying the sample tastings, we will learn about the solera technique of ageing and blending before visiting the blending and bottling plant where we will have a taste of the final, ready to bottle Ron Cihuatán. The tour of the Cihuatán distillery will include your choice of one bottle of Cihuatán Indigo 8 year or Cihuatán Cinabrio 12-year rum, each with its own unique taste and both distilled and aged exclusively in El Salvador. If you want to purchase more of these or the other more exclusives bottles that can be arranged as well.