Heritage House · 3
- Distillerie de Savanna Saint-André / Réunion
Savanna has distilled Réunion cane since 1870 and has worked at the Bois Rouge sugar complex since 1992, drawing directly on the mill beside it. Its range runs from cocktail-grade traditional rums to high-ester grand arôme bottlings and limited single casks, sold from the boutique where site tours end. store page → · open in the atlas → - Distillerie Rivière du Mât Saint-Benoît / Réunion
Rivière du Mât has distilled Réunion sugarcane at Saint-Benoît, on the island's wet east coast, since 1886, producing traditional white rums and aged vieux expressions. One of only three rum distilleries still operating on the island — and the largest by volume — it runs public tours and tastings from the working site. store page → · open in the atlas → - Maison Isautier Saint-Pierre / Réunion
Founded in 1845 and run by the same family ever since, Isautier is a Réunion rum house, best loved today for its rhums arrangés — vanilla, banane flambée, spiced citrus — steeped in the island's own harvest. The Saint-Pierre maison anchors nearly two centuries of Creole distilling. store page → · open in the atlas →
Hidden Gem · 15
- Arrange Blard Reunion Island
This family workshop infuses traditional Reunion rhum arrange with local fruits and spices. Tours and tastings walk visitors through the process. store page → · open in the atlas → - Ceramic Terre et Mer La Montagne, Saint-Denis
In the heights of La Montagne, this atelier-boutique hand-throws and glazes ceramics inspired by the island's land and sea. Alongside its own pieces it runs pottery workshops for visitors keen to shape a souvenir. store page → · open in the atlas → - Coopémiel de Bourbon Réunion
Réunion's only beekeeping cooperative, founded in 1967, gathers some thirty apiarists and up to fifty tonnes of honey a year. The jars run from creamy lychee to spiced baie-rose and dark forest honey — varietals that exist nowhere off this island. store page → · open in the atlas → - Distillerie Savanna Saint-Andre
This Saint-Andre distillery works Reunion sugarcane into traditional, agricultural and aged rums. It ranks among the island's better-known rum producers. store page → · open in the atlas → - Domaine du Café Grillé Pierrefonds, Saint-Pierre / Réunion
Domaine du Café Grillé walks visitors through Réunion's crop history inside a 4-hectare botanical garden at Pierrefonds. Coffee, the island's first major 18th-century crop, is roasted daily at its on-site bar, La Savane. store page → · open in the atlas → - Fournaiz Réunion / Online
A proudly Réunionese label whose tees, sweats and caps carry embroidered island signatures — the paille-en-queue bird, the Piton de la Fournaise, beloved town names. An organic-cotton line keeps the wardrobe as clean as the sentiment. store page → · open in the atlas → - La Maison du Curcuma Plaine des Grègues, Saint-Joseph / Réunion / Online
Four generations of one family have farmed the Plaine des Grègues for safran péi, Réunion's golden curcuma, milled alongside spices, vinegars, essential oils and jams from the same slopes. Guided tastings on site; an online shop carries the warmth home. store page → · open in the atlas → - La Maison du Laurina Grand Coude, Saint-Joseph / Réunion / Online
The Lepinay family has grown certified-organic Bourbon Pointu for nearly 20 years at Grand Coude, above Saint-Joseph on Réunion. Their plot sits closest to Piton de la Fournaise of any coffee producer on the island. store page → · open in the atlas → - La Saga du Rhum Saint-Pierre
Linked to the Isautier distillery, this Saint-Pierre rum museum pairs its exhibits with a boutique. Shelves hold flavoured rums, punches, sugars, spices and crystallised tropical fruits. store page → · open in the atlas → - La Vanilleraie Sainte-Suzanne / Réunion / Online
Inside the historic Domaine du Grand Hazier at Sainte-Suzanne, La Vanilleraie grows and cures Bourbon vanilla good enough to take gold at the Paris Agricultural Show. The shade-house tour ends in a boutique of pods, powders and vanilla sweets cured on the spot. store page → · open in the atlas → - Le Labyrinthe En-Champ-Thé Grand Coude, Saint-Joseph / Réunion
At 1,100 metres in Grand Coude, Saint-Joseph, this family estate has grown organic tea and geranium rosat since 2005, reviving Réunion's tea heritage. Its hedge maze is planted through the tea rows — Réunion's only tea-plantation labyrinth. store page → · open in the atlas → - Maison de la Broderie de Cilaos Cilaos
In the mountain village of Cilaos, this conservatory keeps alive the intricate jours de Cilaos embroidery that began here in the early 20th century. Visitors watch the brodeuses at work and buy handmade linens and openwork pieces. store page → · open in the atlas → - Plantation Vanille Roulof Saint-André / Réunion
The Roulof family has hand-pollinated vanilla at Saint-André for over a century across four generations, and Maurice Roulof still leads the twice-daily visits himself. The workshop shows the pod's two-year journey from flower to fragrance, sold on the spot as pods and powder. store page → · open in the atlas → - Rhum Mamzel Saint-Gilles-les-Bains
Founded on Reunion in 1996, this family house makes award-winning infused rums along with Bourbon vanilla and rum preparation kits. Its shop is in Saint-Gilles-les-Bains. store page → · open in the atlas → - Royal Bourbon Industries Réunion / Online
A cornerstone of Réunion's food shelf, Royal Bourbon turns the island's fruits and vegetables into the staples of Creole cooking — spice blends, chilli pastes, dried legumes, jams and juices under names like Albius and Cérès. The online shop stocks the cupboard wherever you cook. store page → · open in the atlas →
Worth a Detour · 1
- Le Chai de Cilaos Cirque de Cilaos / Réunion
Perched inside the volcanic Cirque de Cilaos on Réunion Island, this is the highest and southernmost vineyard in France, producing dry and sweet whites, rosé, grape juice and the local Goutali; book ahead for a guided cellar tour. store page → · open in the atlas →
The Register · 3
- Coopérative Provanille Bras-Panon
Created in 1968 and grouping around a hundred growers, this Bras-Panon cooperative is a cornerstone of Réunion's Bourbon vanilla, selling graded pods alongside extracts, sugars, cosmetics and woven vacoa crafts. Guided tours show how the pods are cured after growing on the island's volcanic slopes. store page → · open in the atlas → - Plantation Vanilla Bourbon Sainte-Rose / La Réunion / Online
Family plantation growing Bourbon vanilla in Réunion's wild eastern forest — pods matured for months in wooden trunks, sold direct. store page → · open in the atlas → - Provanille Bras-Panon / La Réunion / Online
Réunion's vanilla growers' cooperative in Bras-Panon — IGP Bourbon vanilla pods, extracts, and powder direct from the côte du vent. store page → · open in the atlas →