Papa Rouyo's story begins with Charles Albert Ruscade, known just as Papa Rouyo. Born in 1900, a lifelong sharecropper in the Le Moule region of eastern Grande-Terre, he waged a legal battle to buy the land he had worked for sixty years, which was ultimately won in 1997 by his daughter and grandchildren, the Galli family.
Since 2018, Papa Rouyo's grandchildren and a community of 'maîtres-canniers' from Le Moule have begun to collaborate to enhance the exceptional local sugar cane, in order to produce something local that is both traditional and different.
Papa Rouyo insists a lot on the traceability of his rums, from the barrel to the bottle. On the 16 hectares of land, different varieties are grown in a completely traditional way, including Canne Jaune, Canne Rouge and Canne Matos. The distillation takes place with a discontinuous method in two steps, which allows the heads and tails to be cut and the cœur de chauffe to be preserved.
One of Charles Albert Ruscade's core values was family, which is why the two pot stills were called Agathe - his wife's name - and Danielle - one of his daughters.
Distillates have different alcoholpercentages. So, we have defined a parameter allowing you to better understand and compare different prices. This parameter is calculated by dividing the bottle price by the alcohol content. The alcohol content (or strength) is the amount of pure alcohol (ethanol) contained in the distillate.
This parameter indicates the price of a single 4cl dosage of distillate. It is calculated by dividing the price of the bottle by its quantity (expressed in cl), then multiplying by the centilitres of the recommended single dose, as average in cocktail recipes.
