High quality pure sugar cane rum has never been produced in French Polynesia before. This absence of availability is the inspiration for the project to re-establish the production of sugar cane and high quality rum.

It took nearly 6 years to research and identify different ancestral varieties of sugar cane and to resume the cultivation of cane on previously untapped earth.

At the same time, the company Avatea, based in Paea, Tahiti, offered the project an essential tool, a discontinuous pot still and priceless know-how in the form of their twenty-year experience in the distillation of spirits.

Mana’o Tahiti is the fruit of many years’ labour. The name in the Tahitian language means “to think”, “to remember” and is a resounding tribute to this exceptional cane sugar.