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0A0E8E51-13F7-4911-B608-08DBD1125907Martinique Saint James
Saint James Single Cask 1997 70cl bottle
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Rum Agricole · 15 years 6mo · 42.7%

Saint James Single Cask 1997

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How does Saint James Single Cask 1997 taste?

Aggregated from 33 community reviews.

Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat

Full aroma profile Aroma families · nose & palate · top aromas
Flavor profile
Sweet & dessert
Wood
Dried fruit
Roasted & dark
Fruit
Funk & ester
Vegetal & floral

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What does the community say?

8.3/10 Very good

33 community reviews
5 selected write-ups on this page, all of them in the RumX app

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Distribution of all 33 ratings
9–10 0%
8–9 73%
7–8 21%
6–7 3%
5–6 3%
4–5 0%
0–4 0%

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Review by Carlitooo

Most helpful positive review

Carlitooo
Jan 2021177 reviews
9.0/10

Very fruity for the high age and enormously complex for 42% vol.

Review by Richard Krupa

Most helpful mixed review

Richard Krupa
Richard Krupa
Oct 2023883 reviewsCzech
7.8/10

level better bottle than Trois Riviéres 1997. I smell sweet wood, vanilla and again the ubiquitous flowers. I really like this.

Review by Paul Segui

Paul Segui
Aug 202024 reviews
8.1/10

On sent +++ la canne très frais et rafraîchissant mais assez costaud À regoûter Regoûte, pas eu un coup de foudre, bien boisé aussi et pur agricole, arômes de réglisse quand on laere bien, superbe longueur en bouche par contre mais j'y mettrais pas 130e

Community shelf

83 bottles logged by 78 collectors.

A collector's bottle.

8% opened, 2 emptied.

76 sealed 5 open 2 emptied

What did the community pay for Saint James Single Cask 1997?

Community paid 120–199 €.

Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 172 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ ›

83 purchased · 32 tasted · 11 wishlist · as of

Details about Saint James Single Cask 1997

A Rhum Agricole AOC from Martinique, distilled by Saint James, at 42.7%.

DistillerySaint James
CountryMartinique
CategoryRhum Agricole AOC
Raw materialSugar cane juice
DistillationColumn Still
ABV42.7%
Age15 years 6mo
Vintage1997
Sugar0 g/L
Volume70cl
Cask #027-10-97
Single cask

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Saint James

Distillery

Saint James 

Avg Rating 8.1/10 over 250 Rums

Saint-James is Martinique's biggest distillery and one of the oldest names in bottled rum, founded in 1765 and still selling a square bottle it trademarked in 1882. It holds the largest stock of aged rhum in the French Antilles, runs what may be the world's best distillation museum, and its old vintages and J. Bally bottlings are among the most loved Martinique rums on RumX.

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