N1 · category
Rum
- Family
- Single-distillate spirit
- Raw materials
- Sugar cane
- Place of origin
- Caribbean
Sugar-cane spirit — from fresh juice (rhum agricole) or from molasses (traditional rum). A family born of the meeting between a tropical plant and European distilling.
Its colour, and what colour owes to craft
Amber from the cask, adjustable — maturation in wood, caramel allowed to even it out. See the six regimes of colouring
The thing to remember
The distinction between agricole and traditional rum structures the whole reading of French rums.
Terroirs and geographical indications
The recognised production areas attached to this category in the Atlas.
- Rhum de la Guadeloupe Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Rhum de la Guyane Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Rhum de la Martinique Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Rhum de la Réunion Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Rhum de sucrerie de la Baie du Galion Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Rhum des Antilles françaises Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
- Rhum des départements français d'outre-mer Geographical indication registered in the European Union · France
Sources and validation
- Sources of the corpus
- Names and statuses: eAmbrosia, the official register of geographical indications of the European Union. Geometries: INAO, Délimitation des aires géographiques des SIQO (27/07/2026), Licence Ouverte v2.0, reprojected to WGS84.
- Corpus updated on
- 1 August 2026
- Validation
- Seed entry Corpus under construction. Each entry is checked and sourced before validation by the future scholarly board. Protection status and mode of location are carried by each entry: an area delimited by a product specification and a reference-town point do not carry the same weight.