J.M Distillery

The red-clad distillery, set in a lush valley, has been redesigned to modernise the production facilities and create a new experience for all visitors!

The visit is free, and gives you the chance to discover all the ins and outs of rum production, from cutting to distillation, via the ageing process. You'll be totally immersed in the rum-making process:

- The cane garden where J.M. rums are made.
- The distillery, from crushing to fermentation tanks (in operation from February to June).
- The impressive ageing cellar, one of the most majestic on the island.
- On certain days, the barrels are burnt to give the rums their colour and aroma.
- The tropical garden.
- The olfactory workshop to prepare you for tasting the different rums.
You can buy J.M rums and its excellent Shrubb (a blend that combines the strength of J.M rum, the sweetness of cane sugar and the warmth of spices and bitter orange).Many of these rums have won awards at the Concours Général Agricole in Paris.

The secrets of a great rum:
The J.M distillery uses only sugar cane grown on the estate's volcanic soils. Its aged rums are matured in American casks. Every year, the cellar master empties all the barrels to obtain a perfectly homogenous aged rum and to fill each barrel. This painstaking and meticulous operation ensures the quality of each barrel and allows the rum from the vintage being aged to be topped up. J.M.'s speciality also lies in the final degree of its aged rums, which changes from one vintage to the next. The 10 and 15 year old rums are not reduced to obtain a precise degree before bottling.

One of our favourite distilleries, as much for the site as for its rums...
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