30 hrs of travel and the first stop in Moorea was a distillery visit (Rotui Juice Factory and Manutea rum distillery)
Visit it itself was nice, but strangely they did have any open rhum bottles to taste in the shop/visitor centre - tastings were only the bottled cocktails and rhum arrange. That part was a bit disappointing(so nothing to review sadly). Self explanatory tour of the distillery, sharing some pictures from the visit.
Thanks for the gorgeous pictures! I am curious about the yield you will take home… enjoy your trip! 
Nice post! I went Tahiti for my honeymoon and had only just started drinking rum wish I had known then what I know now! Only downside is the flights are a killer! Enjoy!
Fantastic. What is the price for a 5 liter bottle? Too lazy for searching at google 
That’ll set you back by just 70 €
Yeah, nice price, sounds ok
Persistence pays. Visited them again, today’s tasting selection did have a rhum blanc. And met someone who told the one 2 days ago did have the rhum vieux as well
Hey, thanks for sharing Doesn’t seem like a small batch distillery, is it?
Fairly small @Tim. The juice production is at a larger scale than rhum. Wish I could meet someone who could tell me the exact output. Right now Google will have to do.
Distillery #2: Domaine Pari Pari
Small distillery that is located on Taha’a island - they produce rhum agricole and also extract coconut oil.
Was lucky to see the cane being crushed at the distillery (in the middle of harvest season). Cane is sourced from the island. Varietal I was told is called O Tahiti.
20% of the juice is distilled on the island and the rest is sent to Moorea to Rotui Juice factory to produce Manutea rhum. The rhum they distill is aged at the distillery.
Wild yeast fermentation for a week and then pot still distillation.
Rhum Blanc is 62, 55 and 40 % ABV. The aged ones they are building up the portfolio. The bourbon barrel one was aged for 1-2Y (jogging my memory here, this was after the tasting).
They had quite some other rhums in the cabinet which looked way too interesting, but I couldn’t taste nor buy them 
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Tasting profile for the rhum blanc: Brine and truffles on the nose, perhaps a bit of citrus as well. Strong honey and sugarcane on the body, and a lingering peppery finish
Tasting profile of the aged agricole: Beautiful vanilla and oak notes on the nose. Even with limited aging the cask integrates very well with the base spirit. Perhaps didn’t even feel the need for it to be aged anymore, preserved the best of both worlds in my opinion.
Distillery #3: Rhumerie Mana’o/Distillerie Va’eva’e
The main Mana’o distillery is on Papeete island. Part of Braserrie du Pacifique. Hoping to visit that when we’re in Papeete. This one is sort of a partnership between Mana’o and Va’eva’e. It’s more a store for Mana’o and a very small distillery for Va’eva’e.
Cane is sourced from different parts of the islands and crushed here. Many different cane varietals are blended (O Tahiti, Blue cane, Hawaiian cane, cane from other countries close by in the pictures as well).
Cane juice is fermented using industrial yeast and then the fermented juice is transferred to BdP for distillation. They do have a small alambique still for experimenting, a slightly bigger one for distilling Va’eva’e gin and some Va’eva’e rhum. Their bigger still (still very small by industrial standards) is not operational at the moment. They do have plans to operationalize it.
Tried some fresh sugarcane juice here as well - it was really amazing. In terms of rhums tried 3:
Mana’o Paille I was told is aged in ex-armagnac casks (not verified). Had a nice herbaceous finish. They age the barrels in Rangiroa island (more space and a warehouse).
The Rhum Blanc was a nice one as well, but found the one at Pari Pari (62% ABV) more to my liking.
Found another one that I carried, it’s a Rhum Blanc aged in Teracotta pots. They didn’t have an open bottle, so didn’t try it yet, but keen to open the bottle!
