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La Confrérie du Rhum Saint James Brut de fût 2003
Loved by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰, Harald & 77 more
For experienced palates: a dry, powerful old agricole packed with red and dried fruits, tobacco, dark chocolate and assertive oak. RumX members love its complexity, massive length and unsweetened, authentic character.
Aggregated from 90 community reviews.
- High complexity
- Huge finish
- Unsweetened agricole
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Stern Magazine Details about La Confrérie du Rhum Saint James Brut de fût 2003
A Rhum Agricole AOC from Martinique, bottled by La Confrérie du Rhum, at 59%.
How does La Confrérie du Rhum Saint James Brut de fût 2003 taste?
Aggregated from 90 community reviews.
Intense, dry and deeply woody agricole For experienced palates: a dry, powerful old agricole packed with red and dried fruits, tobacco, dark chocolate and assertive oak. RumX members love its complexity, massive length and unsweetened, authentic character.
Agricole fans and bourbon/armagnac drinkers who enjoy dry, oak-driven spirits with tobacco, leather and dried-fruit depth at cask strength.
Those new to rum, anyone sensitive to 59% ABV, or drinkers who prefer sweet, soft, low-wood profiles over dry, tannic, slightly bitter agricoles.
How is La Confrérie du Rhum Saint James Brut de fût 2003 rated?
RumX's 0–10 scale is strict , 8.7 lands squarely in the "Very good" band. 95% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 0% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
This is probably the best St. James in my mind and I do have a backup bottle on the shelf. The nose is very well balanced with spices, fruit and tobacco. In the back i can find oak and a bit of leather. The palate is complex and really intense. Dried fruit and lots of spices with roasted coffee and a hint of leather. There is a slight but good bitterness. The finish is extremely long, slightly bitter and pepper spicy with some raisins.
Review by Harald
Color: mahogany Aroma: Sweet and heavy, raisins, prunes, mon cherie. Malaga ice Taste: Sweet in the mouth Oily on the swallow, prune discharge Spicy Tobacco, leather Finish: long, spicy, raisins Noble wood
Review by Thomas Wille
Class Agricole from the house of Saint James 👏🏻🥃
Review by Dr.Django
The St. James I had in my glass were often typically woody, "green" agricoles. Just like this one. A very dry representative, with dark dried fruits. Leather, tobacco and wood. Fantastic!
Review by Émile Shevek
Spicy and woody nose with some red fruit, chocolate and tobacco. On the palate spicy notes, especially cinnamon, some pepper and a touch of vanilla, then wood and premature red fruits typical of the distillery. On the finish, which remains quite long and lingering, also come toasty hints, others slightly sour, dark chocolate and after a few minutes some aftertaste of mold and leather. Exquisite, it has a Christmassy feel to it, too bad only for the cinnamon, which I don't like in general as a spice, otherwise it would have gotten a higher rating. Thank you Oliver for the opportunity!
Review by Rene Pfeiffer
Toller 14 jähriger Agricole. Da hätte ich gerne mehr wie das 2cl Sample.
Review by Johannes
Borderline woody, but great complexity!
Review by Rowald Sweet Empire
So I did the Velier vintages of St. James in a row a while back. Decided to open this as a desert. With an ABV if 59 instead if 47% it was a lot heavier...but still delicious. So lots of red fruits in the nose: Cherry. Black currant. Strawberry. Frenck oak with that typical hint of acidity. This breathes thick flavours. In the mouth: very big on the red fruits. A cognac/armagnac feel but also fresh. Port. Lot's of flavours. Very good. Seriously layered. Woody yet fresh. This is agricole quality. Definitely worth the 120+ euros it goes for.
Review by Joachim Guger
A dream the nose! Tropical fruit, dark, tobacco, spices, coffee, chocolate. Lots of wood, perfectly balanced on the upper edge. Empyreumatic the French would say.Powerful and balanced in the mouth. Coffee and dried banana on the finish.Great Agricole. Perfect play with barrel aging. Nice that we now really have a wide selection of Agricoles.
Review by Thunderbird
An Agricole , which still has corners and edges. It is very intense and complex and there is much to discover! Very exciting and delicious! Top!
Review by igor_loves_rum
Very interesting...very harmonious smell...tastes different than expected...I like the finish very much. Good rum
Review by Maxence
Dry profile with some tobacco, wood, dark chocolate, dried fruits and hints of fresh citrus. Once more a nice agricole rum !
Review by Lawich Lowaine
A nugget from the brotherhood ❤️
Review by Oliver
Really heavy and woody Agricole.a nose to fall in love with.
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Community purchases
177 bottles logged by 125 collectors.
A drinker & collector.
22% opened, 18 emptied and repurchased.
What does La Confrérie du Rhum Saint James Brut de fût 2003 cost?
Community paid €85–€140.
Current best price: €269.90 – above the typical community range.
What members actually paid for their bottles. A typical range, not the current shop price. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
177 purchased · 92 tasted · 41 wishlist · as of
About the Saint James distillery
The Saint James distillery is located in Martinique. Rums from Saint James have been reviewed 4,661 times with an average of 8.1/10.
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