Nestled between the mountain that rises up the middle of Basse Terre and the Caribbean Sea, the Bologne distillery originally used water power to crush the sugar cane to make sugar and alcohol. Today a steam engine powered by burning bagasse crushes tons of cane each day during the first six or seven months of the year.
After fermentation, copper Savalle stills distill the fermented juice into the rhum agricole which is then rested and bottled or aged in French oak barrels.