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You can smell the distillery before you reach it. A strange smell of sweetcorn is gradually replaced with a scent of apples before you reach the molasses storage unit which reeks of dark treacle. The molasses taste like a bitter liquid liquorice but eventually result in super strength alcohol. The rum itself doesn’t take its flavour from the particular nuances of red Australian soil, but from American white oak which is coopered into giant barrels to house the maturing rum. The tastings revealed that Bundaberg is nothing special as far as rum goes, but that the limited edition Royale Liqueur containing chocolate, licquorice, rum and various other ingredients is well worth the $40 a bottle.