North Mills Distillery
Steam-powered rum distillery in a basalt mill, crushing fresh island cane with vintage machinery.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to the North Mills Distillery in Porto da Cruz, Madeira, is about the people who keep a steam-driven rum mill fed: the smallholders who cut cane by hand on slopes no harvester can climb, and the short spring campaign their year revolves around. It also takes you through the nineteen twenties merger that created the mill. Stand where you can see the red-brick chimney above the basalt walls.
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