Matagorda, "where Texas history began." In 1822, the ship Only Son landed at the mouth of the Colorado River to disembark the first of Stephen Austin's Texas settlers. Early on those pioneers worked their fields with sugar cane. Given the availability of all that raw material, its hard to imagine Matagorda County without rum. Today that same pioneer spirit drives us to create a premium rum sourced from Texas ingredients. Veteran owned distillery coming soon.