Aged 10 years · 70cl
Rey 10
A decade in American oak — vanilla, butterscotch and warm spice.
£34.95
Available
DISTILLED & AGED IN PANAMA
RUM FROM THE GODS. Aged 10 to 25+ years.
True age statements from the land between two oceans.
Skip to the rumsFour ages · One origin
The Aged Collection
Rey 10, 12, 18 and 25. Every year on the label is a year spent in oak under the Panama sun.
Aged 12 years · 70cl
Rey 12
Twelve years under the Panama sun — vanilla and wild honey.
£39.95
Available
Aged 18 years · 70cl
Rey 18
Eighteen years of cask and climate — deep, resonant and layered.
£79.95
Available
Why Rey del Istmo
Every year on the label is earned.
True age-statement rum from Panama’s oldest distillery, aged under the tropical sun by a family house with more than a century in Panama’s cane country.
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True age statements
10, 12, 18 and 25 years — every year on the label is a year spent in cask.
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Panama’s oldest distillery
Distilled at Hacienda San Isidro in Pesé, where the Varela family has made cane spirit since 1936.
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Aged under the tropical sun
Panama’s heat draws the spirit deep into oak, building colour, spice and character.
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A family house since 1908
Ingenio San Isidro was established in 1908, in the young Republic of Panama.
Varela Hermanos · Pesé, Herrera
Where tradition took root.
In the heart of Pesé, Herrera, Hacienda San Isidro has carried the Varela family story for more than a century. Here, Don José Varela Blanco established Ingenio San Isidro in 1908. In 1936, the family began distilling sugar-cane spirit. Today the estate is home to Panama's oldest distillery — and it is here that Rey del Istmo is distilled.
A house of Panamanian cane
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1908
The first mill
Ingenio San Isidro was established in the young Republic of Panama.
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1936
A spirit begins
The family began distilling alcohol from sugar cane.
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Pesé
Hacienda San Isidro
The Varela family home, rooted in Herrera's cane country.
From cane to glass
Follow the spirit across the Isthmus.
From the cane fields of Herrera to the cask and the glass — four chapters in the making of Rey del Istmo.
The Isthmus
A narrow land. A vast influence.
Between two oceans, Panama brings heat, rain and land into a singular meeting place.
Panama · Between two oceans
The distillery
Cane becomes spirit.
At Hacienda San Isidro, in the heart of Herrera’s cane country, the Varela family has distilled sugar-cane spirit since 1936.
Pesé · Herrera · Since 1936
Our heritage
Cask · Climate · Time
Time does not simply pass. It leaves a signature.
Under the Panama sun, tropical warmth draws the spirit deep into oak. Colour, sweetness and spice arrive in their own time — and leave a finish that stays.
Patience, measured in years
The ladder
Every age. One origin.
Four true age statements from a single Panamanian house. Choose your measure of time.
10 · 12 · 18 · 25 years
Shop the rumsRey 10 · The first crown
Golden, layered, quietly complex.
A decade in cask reveals a generous first chapter — poured neat, over ice, or in a rum Old Fashioned.
Shop Rey 10- Nose
- Vanilla, wild honey and toasted oak
- Palate
- Butterscotch, dried fruit and gentle spice
- Finish
- Long, velvety and quietly warming
A gift measured in years
Give them time.
Presented with quiet ceremony. A considered gift for milestones, collectors and those who understand that the rarest luxury is time.
A gift from the gods
The treasures of our past shape the rums of our future.
King of the Isthmus. Aged rum from the land between two oceans.