The Wild Parrot Travellers Sansibar 2007

Bottled by The Wild Parrot under its Sansibar linked selection, this is a single cask of Travellers rum from Belize, distilled in 2007 on a column still and aged eleven years before bottling at a full 65.1%. Travellers is Belize's main distillery, and column distilled molasses rum from the country tends toward a smooth, dessert leaning sweetness, which this cask delivers in concentrated form.

The nose is generous and confected, marzipan, coconut and butterscotch wrapped around milk chocolate, while the palate brings vanilla, more coconut, oak and a gentle anise lift. Matured in ex bourbon at tropical strength, it carries real weight without losing its sweet, nutty charm, though the high proof means a few drops of water help it open. An unsweetened single cask in the modern collectors' idiom, this is a rich, characterful Belize for drinkers who enjoy coconut and chocolate driven cask strength rum.