Ti Arrangés de Ced‘ Ti Ananas Victoria Les Rhums de Ced 2017

This Ti Ananas comes from Les Rhums de Ced, a specialist in the French-island arrange tradition of steeping fruit in rum. The base is a Guadeloupe cane juice spirit, here infused with Victoria pineapple, a small and intensely aromatic variety, in a 2017 release.

An arrange is built to be soft, round and fruit led rather than dry, so this reads as a sweet, pineapple forward pour. At a gentle 32 percent it is easy and dessert leaning, the kind of bottle served chilled as a digestif or over ice. Honest framing matters: this is a flavoured rum rather than a neat agricole, leaning toward the sweeter, more sippable end of the island repertoire.