Parhelia Rum x3: Indonesia, Barbados (WIRD), Guadeloupe (Reimonenq)

So I got a DM from a friend who wanted to pass my info along to a new independent bottler based in DC, who had some rums to sell. And I figured they might send me, y'know, the usual mix of Foursquare and Worthy Park and Belize and maybe Panama. But no: it turns out the folks from Parhelia rummaged around quite a bit more and found casks from WIRD's Gregg's Farm still, and Reimonenq in Guadeloupe, and Indonesia. That's pretty impressive for literally the first cask picks they've ever put out, so let's taste them:

Parhelia Spirits Indonesia Rum, Cask No. 2 (unknown producer; pot distilled from molasses 12/15, aged in teak vat for 9 months and Ex-English malt whisky for 8+ years, bottled 2/2025, 58 half-bottles; 52.1% ABV), 90/100
Parhelia Spirits Guadeloupe Rum, Cask No. 3 (Reimonenq, Sainte-Rose, Basse-Terre; short column-distilled cane juice, distilled 12/15, aged 2/27/16 to 2/27/25 in ex-bourbon, 9 years old, 186 bottles; 52.3% ABV), 87+/100
Parhelia Spirits Pot Still Barbados Rum, Cask No. 1 (West Indies Rum Distillery; distilled from molasses 7/2016 maybe on the Gregg's Farm still, aged in first-fill bourbon 8/2017 to 2/2025, 7 years old, 220 bottles; 65.4% ABV), 87/100

The Indonesia is absolute magic, full stop. Soupy and savory and tomatoey, yet with all of that buoyed by the magic of oak. Tremendous stuff, it gives you a sense of what Rivers might be if you stuffed it in a barrel in Amsterdam for a decade. There's less than thirty liters of it out there and all of you who have it need to share for the rest of us. 😁 The other two are also really good and quite unique all in their own right, even if they aren't quite at the same level. The Guadeloupe has serious white wine energy, marrying intense minerality and citrusy stuff with a cleaning product (but nice) kind of element that XXX/Six fans (see    • Weird Column Rum Roundup: XXX/3 AFD v. TCR...   ) might really dig. And then the WRID is a classic low ester pot still Bajan rum profile, with a spicy kick and an industrial (glue and rubber) thing to give it its own unique character.

Extra special thanks to my Different Spirits on Patreon (  / differentspirits  , who got this video first -

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