MAURITIUS RUM
“What can I say, since arriving in Mauritius I have become a Rum fan. In fact, I've become somewhat of a rum collector!
We have visited date both the Chamarel and Labourdonnies Rhumeries and taken part in their tours and tasting a number of times as we take friends and family when they visit which tells you how much we recommend the event. Saying that it's our ambition to visit them all."
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"cheers"
Karen
CHAMAREL RHUMERIE
One of the distillery’s strong points is that it was designed to provide a holistic tourism experience to guests. Mauritian architect Maurice Giraud has created a building that blends harmoniously with the spectacular surroundings. Wood, natural stone, and water provide a sense of communion with nature, turning the distillery into one of the most beautiful factories in the world. Another strong point of the distillery is that it was created to produce the finest rum.
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Experienced guides will take you behind the scenes to provide a thorough explanation of the rum-making process while you visit the distillery.
call: +230 483 4980
email: info@rhumeriedechamarel.com
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LABOURDONNAIS
Located 20 minutes from Port Louis, Château de Labourdonnais was built between 1856 and 1859. Surrounded by beautiful orchards, this grand mansion was restored between 2006 and 2010 and converted into a museum that invites you to discover the nineteenth-century Mauritian lifestyle as well as its history. During your visit you will see, a grocery shop where a wide variety of fruits are sold to local buyers, supermarkets, and the transformation factory of Chateau de Labourdonnais, which results in finished products like jams, juices, and fruit candies/pastes.
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Next, you will visit the gardens and the orchards surrounding the Château in an environment where the beauty of nature reigns flawlessly on the estate. The grand driveway lined with centenarian trees, the lush gardens, but also the endemic plants, fruit trees, and the giant tortoises’ park will tempt you on a timeless journey.
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Today, the estate has further diversified from fruits and vegetable cultivation offering products and services such as leisure and events activities, real estate services, the distillation of rum, vanilla plantation, and much more.
call: +230 266 3007
PINK PIGEON
Native only to Mauritius, the pink pigeon is now one of the rarest birds in the world and used to be widely distributed throughout the island. Today, pink pigeons are found only in four sub-populations located in remote, forested, or mountainous regions of southwestern Mauritius.
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Pink Pigeon rum is produced in Mauritius at the Médine estate, which includes a rum distillery and a sugar factory, both separated by a few metres. The sugar factory supplies the distillery with sugar-rich molasses.
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Pink Pigeon is a rum flavoured with vanilla, wild orchid petals, and orange zest. The Bourbon vanilla used comes exclusively from the neighbouring islands of Madagascar and Reunion, while the oranges and orchids are from Mauritius.
SAINT AUBIN
Located the south of the island of Mauritius, a few kilometres north of Souillac, the estate of St. Aubin has been cultivating sugar cane since 1819. The distillery located on the estate itself was named after its former owner Mr. Pierre de Saint Aubin. It is known for creating the first sugarcane-based rum on the island.
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The Groupe Saint Aubin is a historical agro-industrial Mauritian group based in the south of Mauritius. It is a family-run business created in 1819. The company started in the sugar industry and has further diversified throughout the years. It purchased the Bois Chéri Tea plantation in 1958 and worked on making the Bois Chéri Tea the most famous tea in Mauritius.
Groupe Saint Aubin is also the pioneer of fresh sugar cane juice rum in Mauritius with its famous Saint Aubin 1819 Rum. Groupe Saint Aubin began its diversification into the tourism sector in 2003 with the launching of La Route du Thé, du Rhum et de la Vanille, a unique and authentic experience, taking the traveler on a journey that excites all the senses through the discovery of the worlds of tea, sugar, rum, vanilla, and essential oils. Nowadays, the group is well diversified with famous brands in rum and tea, three restaurants, and different tourism activities.
call: +230 626 1730
email: info@saintaubingroup.com
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GREEN ISLAND
Most of the night skies wonders are visible only at certain periods of the year, as there is a long list and I am by no means an expert I will link the best astronomy tools below.
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Having said this there are a number of constellation which can bee seen all year round in Mauritius as they never drop below the horizon. These are called circumpolar constellations.
Some circumpolar constellations to name:
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Carina
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Centaurus
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Crux
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As mentioned previous for a much more detailed idea of what can be seen in Mauritius at this moment in time check out The Sky Live. Other excellent resources include the Field of View (FOV) Calculator, this allows competent astrologers to test different telescopes and cameras, The Star Chart, showing you the stars in your specific location and the Cloud Forecast allowing you to see how clear the sky will be.
call: +230 483 4980
email: info@rhumeriedechamarel.com
NEW GROVE
The award-winning New Grove Rums are testimonials to Mauritius’s long-standing history in the art of rum making. They showcase the rich heritage and excellence of the island’s rum-making tradition.
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In 1852, Dr Pierre Charles François Harel developed the concept of local distillation of rum in Mauritius, using only the finest local ingredients from his vast Pamplemousses Garden Estate to create a liquor of outstanding quality and pure refinement.
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150 years later, New Grove rum still conveys this strong heritage and retains these delicate flavours from the past. Crafted in the middle of the green sugar fields, and produced in limited quantity, this exclusive rum is reserved for the real connoisseurs who can truly appreciate its subtle refinement.
call: +230 209 3000
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