Ti Arrangés de Ced‘ GRAAL Ananas Framboise Les Rhums de Ced

Les Rhums de Ced build their Ti Arrangés range around macerated fruit, and this GRAAL bottling steeps pineapple and raspberry in a column still rum base. Blended from multiple origins and bottled at 45.4%, it belongs to the rhum arrangé tradition, where fresh fruit is infused into the spirit, so it is a fruit forward and openly sweet style rather than a dry cask aged rum.

Pineapple runs the show here, dominant on the nose, across the palate and through a finish that turns overripe and candied, with raspberry alongside and a grassy, agricole tinged note underneath hinting at a cane juice component. The fruit is intense and the sweetness pronounced, though the 45.4% strength gives it more backbone than many softer arrangés and keeps the alcohol present on the gums. It is a sociable, fruit heavy sipper, enjoyable for what it is so long as a candied pineapple sweetness is what is wanted.