Rum Zacapa is produced in Guatemala where the Botran-Requejo family came to live. This family fond of this elixir made from sugar cane only distillates two brands of Rum : Botran and Zacapa.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Botran and Requejo families living in the Spanish province of Burgos married their children who had 5 sons. They went to live in Quetzaltenango, a town in Guatemala situated 2,333 above sea level. In 1939, the Industria Licorera Quetzalteca was founded in this beautiful mountain scenery where the climate is cool and pleasant.

The family keeps its recipes of rum distillation secret. Their top of the range Zacapa rum is made with pure honey and cane sugar. Another of their excellent rums is originally clothed with a hand-plaited palm leaf . The use of such a palm cloth goes back to 1,400 B.C, during the preclassical Mayan era when only the king was entitled to use it. This easily recongnisable labelling represents one of the finest Guatemalan craftmanship and shows that even if new technologies are used to distillate, Zacapa is deeply bound to its country, its cultures and its traditions.