Guadeloupe Rhum Distillery Map

A quick post to share a map I created. We’re headed to Guadeloupe in a few days for a rum festival and plan to visit as many rhum distilleries as possible while on the island. We’re also taking a day to ferry over to Marie Galante, which is administratively part of Guadeloupe, to visit — you guessed it, more rhum distilleries.

To help me plan our itinerary, I created a quick map in Google and added more readable labels. Just for the heck of it, I shared it on my Rum Wonk Facebook page and was surprised how many people were checking it out and resharing it. Given the level of interest, I took more time and redid the map more carefully.

While Guadeloupe’s cane juice rhum distilleries are justifiably famous, it turns out that Guadeloupe also makes molasses rhum. In fact, as much (or more) molasses rhum than cane juice rhum! Surprised? Check out Chapter 16 (French Overseas Departments) of Modern Caribbean Rum. An abbreviated version of that chapter appears here on Rum Wonk: French Rum - Below the Waterline.

The two molasses rhum distilleries are:

• Société Industrielle de Sucrerie de Bonne Mère (aka SIS Bonne Mère)

• Sucreries et Rhumeries de Marie-Galante (aka SRMG)

Both are co-owned by COFEPP, the parent company of La Martiniquaise and Bardinet. The company also owns Saint-James and Depaz in Martinique and Bellevue in Marie Galante.

The map is below. Domaine de Séverin does not appear on the map because it ceased distilling in 2019.

To see a larger version of the map, click it. (Works best in a desktop browser.)

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