Planting of la Montagne Pelée

On the outskirts of Saint Pierre , you'll find the Depaz Distillery , a famous rum factory and large sugar cane plantation on the slope of the Mount Pelée volcano on the St. Pierre Bay . One of the secrets of this excellent and award-winning rum is precisely this plantation, as the volcanic soil makes these lands are very fertile the abundance of water and warm weather gives the cane sugar a special character.