Manutea has clinched the Spirits Selection by Concours Mondial de Bruxelles’ Grand Gold Medal and the “Revelation” designation for its white rum Manutea Tahiti 50°, awarded at the edition held this year in Portugal. Two other spirits from the brand were also honored. With 31 distinctions since 2018, including 11 gold medals, the Moorea-based distillery brands itself as “the most decorated in the fenua.” This Friday, rum-sector players will gather in Pirae for the second Tahiti Rhum Festival.
Manutea distillery has just captured the Grand Gold Medal at the Spirits Selection by Concours Mondial de Bruxelles for its white rum Manutea Tahiti 50°, the competition’s highest prize. It is accompanied by the “Revelation” designation in the agricultural rum and pure cane juice category. Distilled and bottled in Moorea from cane grown in Taha’a, this white rum is the house’s flagship product. It had already taken gold at the same contest in 2023.
The edition this year was held in Madeira, Portugal, from October 16 to 18. More than 2,300 spirits from 70 countries were blind-tasted by 106 international experts. Other products from the brand were rewarded there: the VO Single Cask Banyuls aged rum went home with a gold medal, and the Hotu Botanical Dry gin earned silver. The single malt whisky Aimeho received, for its part, the “CMB Merit” designation, a quality label distinct from medals.
The most-decorated distillery on the fenua
With these new distinctions, Manutea claims 31 prizes since 2018, including 11 gold medals. This makes it “the most decorated distillery on the fenua,” according to its commercial manager Manua Langrenay. The brand had already shone in February at the Paris General Agricultural Competition, where its white rum earned a silver medal, following the gold in 2025. And in June, the Syndicat des producteurs de rhum agricole de Polynésie, of which Manutea is a founding member along with Mana’o, Pari Pari and Tamure Rhum, had also won the Grand Prize “Durabilité et Impact” at the Mondial du rhum in Paris.
The rum sector’s players will gather this Friday, November 13, at the Royal Tahitien in Pirae, for the second Tahiti Rhum Festival, organized by the Syndicat de défense de l’indication géographique rhum de Polynésie française. Manutea will host a masterclass on the influence of the cask on rum. To register, visit the event page.
