Our Heritage
Mauritius - the idyllic, tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean -produces some of the world’s best sugar and distills exquisite rum.
Sugarcanes first arrived with Dutch colonisation in 1638. So rum was made in the Indian Ocean long before it was taken to the Caribbean.
At that time, sugarcane was grown exclusively to make sugar and the molasses were distilled into a spirit called arak or rum. For hundreds of years, only molasses were used for white rums.
Today, sugarcane is still integral to the Mauritian landscape and rum production is more common, including some world class matured rum. At the centre of our own sugar cane fields, sits the Medine distillery, in operation since 1926.
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