French word used for "rum".
Liquor obtained after the fermentation and distillation of sugar cane juice.
Different kinds of rum it distinguishes in Martinique :
- The rum is produced by direct fermentation of fresh cane juice (the cane juice)
- Rum "cœur de chauffe" which is a rum from the first stillage
- Industrial rum produced by fermentation from molasses (sugar refining residue) and
- The rum is a dark rum aged in oak barrels.
Learn all about the rum, go to a rum distillery on the island.