An­gos­tu­ra has re­leased a lim­it­ed-edi­tion artis­tic pack­ag­ing for its pre­mi­um rum, An­gos­tu­ra Founders Re­serve 1824.

An­gos­tu­ra Founders Re­serve 1824 is named af­ter the year An­gos­tu­ra aro­mat­ic bit­ters were in­vent­ed by Dr Jo­hann G.B. Siegert.

The pack­ag­ing fea­tures four de­signs cre­at­ed by Trinidad and To­ba­go artists Sarah Knights, Nicholas Hug­gins, Shawn Chong-Ash­ing and Bian­ca Peake.

Act­ing chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer, Ian Forbes, said the lim­it­ed-edi­tion pack­ag­ing com­bines the brand’s her­itage with con­tem­po­rary artis­tic ex­pres­sion, adding that each de­sign is in­tend­ed to ap­peal to rum drinkers and art col­lec­tors.

Each artist con­tributed a dis­tinct theme. Knights fo­cused on fem­i­nine iden­ti­ty and lo­cal fash­ion cul­ture. Hug­gins drew on na­tion­al mo­tifs and colour to re­flect Trinidad and To­ba­go’s cul­ture. Chong-Ash­ing’s de­sign ref­er­ences dance through the ages, fea­tur­ing a belé dancer and a mas­quer­ad­er. Peake’s wa­ter­colour art­work ex­plores na­tion­al iden­ti­ty through a vi­su­al in­ter­pre­ta­tion of Trin­bag­on­ian life.