Bacardi – Mixing Console, RRP £1,700 at
MinimaUK.com It’s a limited edition, collector’s item for discerning rum drinkers and vinyl fans. The fully integrated design features a vinyl turntable and has been custom made from the using run-soaked rum barrels from the Bacardi distillery in Puerto Rico.
Working in collaboration with famed furniture designer
Hugh Miller, the BACARDÍ Mixing Console delivers museum-quality craftsmanship and boasts numerous party-ready elements including:
• Built-in Fluance RT80 Vinyl Turntable
• Custom 50-watt Bluetooth speakers, housed in decadent brass mesh fronting
• Record store shelf to house the best festive dance tracks this season
• Decadent walnut cocktail bar top set with its own hand made oak cocktail-stirrers, crafted from the rum barrels
• A bottle of premium BACARDÍ Gran Reserva Diez
Galvanized by the brand’s exuberant Caribbean heritage, where local music and rhythm drive its energetic heartbeat, the BACARDÍ Mixing Console takes individual rum-soaked staves from the barrels of its premium range to create the turntable’s refined base and bar top. Each stave has been delicately stripped and cut to bespoke measurements to encase the vinyl turntable, influenced by the brand’s Sound of Rum music track, to determine the placement of the oak from the turntable itself. Adjoined to the console, the bar cart includes a bespoke walnut drinks tray with custom indentations that perfectly house glassware, shakers and a selection of bottles from BACARDÍ’s premium range, which sparked the ideation for the cart, perfect for luxury gifting to elevate festive celebrations from home.
