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In Medine there is the sugar factory which exists for years ago but more interesting is the distillery which produces rum for Mauritius and for export. Medine is located in the western side of Mauritius Island near Bambou a small village too. Mauritius Island is a magnificent island where you will discover how slaves has been imported to the island to work in the fields and how the land has been colonised from the British and French who fought for the island. The economy of the county lives locally mainly from the production and exportation of sugar. Rum is also very present in the island; it is produced from sugar exactly from bagasses. Rum has a high percentage in it. In Medine distillery there is a large number of casks a sthe one seen on the picture above which are there to keep the rum and let it mature. On the cask above you can see the number of the cask, the date, the quantity and the degree of alcohol.
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