The Wild Parrot Journey Label Collection 1st (Hidden Spirits)

The Wild Parrot Journey Label Collection 1st is a Guatemalan rum selected through Hidden Spirits, an independent bottling that offers a more characterful, estery take on a country usually associated with the soft Zacapa style. This is a livelier, more aromatic side of Guatemalan rum.

Distilled from molasses, it shows an unusually fruity, ester driven nose of pineapple, tropical fruit and honey with a flash of nail polish, then a palate that turns more medicinal and alcoholic with burnt sugar, closing on caramel, orange peel and pepper. The entry feels syrupy before a peppery bite cuts through. Its sugar status is undisclosed, but the bright fruit and funk make this read as a distinctive, slightly polarising single cask rather than a smooth crowd pleaser, one for drinkers who enjoy a more expressive, tropical edge to their rum.