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