Our Guaranteed Vanillas - Part 2 - From refining to distribution

Séchage à l'air libre des gousses fraichement échaudées - Vanille LAVANY Bourbon à Madagascar

AFFINAGE

Echaudage des Vanilles LAVANY Bourbon de Madagascar

Green Vanilla Burning

Etuvage des Vanilles après échaudage

Vanilla scalding

Séchage à l'air libre naturel et au soleil des Vanilles LAVANY Bourbon de Madagascar

Natural drying in the open air under the trade winds of the Indian Ocean and under the tropical sun

Six-step refining will allow us to transform green pods intoVanillasLAVANYRefined into four categories:
black GOURMET, brown or TK, red and cut.
These Vanillas are also marketed under the nameBourbon Vanilla from Madagascar.

  • scaldingWithin 48 hours of harvest, the green spice is plunged once into hot water at controlled temperature for a few Instants. This operation clearly stops the plant life of the pod.

  • wateringAfter draining, pods wrapped in blankets called "gony "Are put in wooden oven. For about 48 hours, Vanilla cooled to room temperature. The pod begins to take its chocolate brown color so characteristic.

  • drying in the open air- the pods spread naturally dry in the sun and in the Indian Ocean. To avoid fermentation, they are regularly and frequently hand-disaggregated. The pods become more and more brown as they dissect, sometimes covering themselves with shiny frost.

    A large skilled labour force is needed to properly perform this long operation, as drying takes several weeks and is totally dependent on sunlight. At night, the Vanilla is stored away from moisture.

    During this totally traditional, unmechanized process, the harvest reduces by 75%, and as we practice it the natural dehydration of theVanillaLAVANYIs the essential and most delicate step of all treatment of the podIt is the only guarantee of its olfactory, aromatic, taste qualities and its ability to preserve itself for several years.

  • measured- we are able to prepare the Vanilla according to the specific requirements of the professionals: humidity, length, concentration.

Malles bois pour le stockage des Vanilles LAVANY Bourbon de Madagascar

Wood malls for the storage of Vanillas

Calibrage des Vanilles LAVANY Bourbon de Madagascar

Measurement of Vanilla pods

Our know-howAncestral vanilla tree guarantees the consistent quality of our pods throughout the yearWe master the four professions of the Vanille sector: Planter, Refiner, Exporter and Distributor.

  • wooden trunking- pods are stored for several months in sulphurized paper. The perfume appears late, it refines during this period. The trunks continue to lose water. They are checked weekly, and the pods are removed.

  • calibration- flexible to point, perfectly developed aroma, pods ofVanillaLAVANYAre sorted, measured, calibrated according to their quality. They are tied in their middle in boots of the same length with a single strand of raftia.

  • packaging- after a final quality control, the perfectly formed boots are traditionally wrapped in sulphurised paper, lined in cardboard boxes, for storage and transport.

  • Analysis- for each crop, before placing on the market, we control various parameters by analysis with approved laboratories:VanillinAnd microbiology control.

The full cycleOf productionVanillaLAVANYFrom manual pollination of the flower to air shipment is at least fifteen months.

DISTRIBUTION

Calibrage des Vanilles affinées

Calibration of refined Vanillas

Vanilles LAVANY Bourbon de Madagascar sur mesure

Vanillas LAVANY custom prepared

Caisses cartons de Vanilles Lavany prêtes à être exportées

Cardboard boxes of 25 kg of VanillasLAVANYReady for export

Air Madagascar, le transporteur des Vanilles LAVANY Bourbon de Madagascar

Air Madagascar VanillasLAVANY

Malagasy Vanilla must contribute fully to Madagascar's economic development.
The Malagasy government, associated with professionals in the Vanille sectordecides on the authorised date of commencement of exportationThe last harvest in order to guarantee the quality of the preparationMalagasy Vanilla; february 2024 for the 2023 harvest.

VanillaLAVANYMarkets onlyVanillas Planifolia AndrewsFromour plantations in Madagascar.

We do not sell any otherVanilla Planifolia AndrewsGrown in other parts of the world ...

This is why we guarantee the traceability of Vanillas LAVANY Bourbon from Madagascar only

" From planter to consumer without intermediary" 

  • export- ready Vanillas are exportedaccording to Malagasy regulationsIn cardboard standard by plane and stored in our premises in ALBI - France.
     
  • distribution- before each delivery, the pods ofVanillaLAVANYAreone by oneAnd are packed according to the needs of the Customers, in vacuum in transparent food-grade bags per 250 grams or under blistering with 2 or 10 glass tube pods with hermetic closure for retail sale.

logo Vanille LAVANY Bourbon de Madagascar

All facilities managed by theRANJA familyIn Madagascar and by Vanilla LAVANY in France have been certified for three yearsAB - Organic farmingBy logo ECOCERT Certification des Vanilles LAVANY Bourbon à Madagascar

THE FOLLOW-UP ... ON PART 1 - FROM CULTURE TO RECOLT