J. Bally Brut de Fût 2009
Loved by Chrischi78, Dr.Django & 29 more
For curious explorers into agricole, this 15‑year Bally Brut de Fût leans woody, bitter‑citrus and tea‑like rather than fruity and sweet. RumX members praise its complex cherry, spice and tannic profile, great nose and serious sipping character.
- Complex nose
- Characterful bitterness
- Dry, long finish
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How does J. Bally Brut de Fût 2009 taste?
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Serious, woody, bitter‑citrus agricole sipper For curious explorers into agricole, this 15‑year Bally Brut de Fût leans woody, bitter‑citrus and tea‑like rather than fruity and sweet. RumX members praise its complex cherry, spice and tannic profile, great nose and serious sipping character.
Fans of mature, dry agricoles who enjoy bitter orange, black tea, cherry and strong tannins, and want a lower‑ABV brut de fût that still feels dense and complex.
Beginners, sweetness‑seekers, or anyone sensitive to bitterness, tannic wood and herbal/tea notes in their rum.
How is J. Bally Brut de Fût 2009 rated?
RumX's 0–10 scale is strict — 8.3 lands squarely in the "Very good" band. 100% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 0% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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Review by Chrischi78
Smooth Agricole with a relatively low ABV. The typical Agricole notes of herbs and hay, but also sour cherry and a little cocoa. Not a top Agricole but a good friend for a relaxed evening!
Review by SaibotZtar
Spicy on the nose.... Cherry, allspice and wood ... Floral notes ... Does not seem coherent. On the palate sour cherry fresh wood, black tea... lots of please notes. Not really mine ..... Medium finish and somewhat dry. Not bad but nothing you really need.
Review by Dr.Django
This rhum was bottled 10 years after the legendary 1999 Bally. It will not become a legend, but it is delicious. A Bally easy sipper that will nevertheless demand a great deal of wood and bitter aroma tolerance from its tasters. I'm really looking forward to the ratings. Agricole inexperienced tasters may be in for a nasty surprise here.
Review by LukaŽiga
8,4:On the nose, soap is a note bumping in our nosetrils, herbaceous and flowery sugarcane with a tea, yellow fruits and slightly roasted wood with chocolate, nuts and spicy with cinnamon. On aeration, more fruits reveal themselves like cherry, raisins and citrus, more roasted wood notes like butterscotch, leather, as cane brings hay. 8,2:On the palate, the attack is tasty with herbaceous, grassy and flowery sugarcane, tannins and soap, slightly bitter, resinous wood, spicy with nutmeg, pepper, cinnamon and vanilla, faint fruits with citrus. After resting the rum, a wave of green, yellow fruits and currants pop out, earthy cane honey with black tea. 8,2:The finish is long and tannic, dry, herbaceous, grassy and earthy sugarcane with black tea, the fruits are yellow, citrus with some orange, bergamot and also banana, raspberry, as the wood is spicy and slightly roasted..
Review by Eric Frechin
Rhum agricole is about average, with wood and spices dominating a little, but there's some fruitiness on the nose, with dried fruit becoming more bitter on the palate, like black cherry and orange zest. A little more alcohol in this brut de fût would perhaps have given it a little more length.
Review by Giorgio Garotti
Un brut de fut a gradazione abbastanza bassa rispetto agli altri imbottigliamenti dove risaltano in tutta la degustazione sentori di legno umido di bosco, una parte speziata che mi ricorda i profumi del forno in inverno e una parte fruttata piacevole! Non di sicuro il profilo che preferisco ma un buon imbottigliamento dove a sorprendere è il finale lunghissimo e dove sprigiona i gusti migliori di questo rum!
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
An insanely great and intense nose, just as I imagine a long tropically matured Agricole! Cinnamon, cherry, bitter orange peel, allspice, sandalwood, something and leather polish. Intense notes of bitter orange and bergamot, spicy fresh allspice, Earl Grey tea and accompanied by intense tannins. Pleasantly woody. The cask strength of "only" 49.2% is definitely understandable here. Every drop is incredibly dense, elegant, concentrated and intense. A really good and unusual bottling with typical Bally markers. Surprisingly fair price. You have to be prepared for the bitter though. Definitely depends on your mood on the day! 😃
Review by Vincent D
Tasted at RhumFest Paris 2025. I found it wiser than its predecessors from 2004 and 2007. Big presence of bitterness and citrus. Lower alcohol content, but not disturbing for me. Pretty cool.
Review by Johannes
Definitiv ein hohes Niveau, ein sehr guter Agricole! Mir ist er etwas zu unrund, einerseits viel Holz im Abgang, andererseits auch florale Noten, dazwischen schöne rote Früchte.
Review by Jonathan Massard
👃 Fruits confits (pruneaux, raisins, oranges et cerises amères), épices du bois (girofle, cannelle, vanille légère). Caramel léger. Légèrement herbacé avec un peu de feuilles de thé. La canne à sucre est présente mais relativement en retrait. Le boisé a supplanté le distillat. 😋 Les cerises et agrumes sont amers. Beaucoup d'épices du bois (cannelle, girofle, poivre). Côté tannique, bois mouillé. Herbacé aussi, thé léger. Pas mal d'amertume des fruits et sensation d'un alcool trop présent qui pourtant ne dynamise pas suffisamment les arômes en bouche. ⛳ Plutôt courte par rapport au degré alcoolique et à ce genre de profil agricole. Bois, thé et épices en dominante, fruité oscillant entre le confit et l'amer. A redéguster pour confirmer la note.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
27.09.2025 Day one of the Whisky Live 2025, which this year looks better organized/arranged inside. Yet another pretty nice Brut de Fut from Bally. I have a few of these and they're really nice and carry more power than the standard range. Nice warm/spicy palate with well integrated wood and ABV.
Review by Nils123
Super fruchtig, gerade die Kombination zwischen Kirsche, Tee und feinen Gewürzen macht ihn so interessant. Mit Wasser kommen noch Leder und Orange hinzu. Eine tolle Komplexität, gefällt mir ausgesprochen gut.
Review by Righrum
I tried this rum twice, One at rhum fest and the other One at home with a clean samples. First impact was mediocre but now drinking it clean it's definitely Better. On the bitter side of this kind of rum
Review by Julien Ries
Holala qu'est-ce que ça sent bon ! Ça fait bien longtemps que je n'avais pas passé autant de temps à décortiquer les effluves d'un rhum de la Martinique. Beaucoup de boisé (normal pour un Bally), des épices en veux-tu en voilà, de la vanille, de la réglisse, des grains de café, du chocolat au lait, des fruits à coque, des pruneaux et des abricots séchés, du meuble ciré... C'est tellement complexe et harmonieux ! Du grand art ! La bouche est d'une grande douceur malgré les watts bien présents, et là encore cette complexité ! Encore du boisé raffiné, du tabac, de la fève de cacao torréfié, des fruits jaunes confits, des amandes grillées. Tout est ample, gouleyant, équilibré. La finale est longue, chaleureuse, sur le bois et les épices. On est sur un très grand rhum pour un prix d'achat très très raisonnable.
Review by Maxime Clr 🇫🇷
A nose of sandalwood, spices, leather, almond, slightly buttery and soapy. Little or no fruit (perhaps a little bitter orange). On the palate, typical Bally woodiness comes first. Bitter cherry, tea and leather follow. For a brut de fut, this falls back a little quickly on the palate... the finish is short. A pleasant release, but nothing exceptional. Rather low ABV.
Community purchases
52 bottles logged by 52,000+ RumX members. The ratio of closed / opened / emptied, indicates whether this rum is meant to be drunk or is a collector's item.
Also on the wishlist of 18 members.
About the J. Bally distillery
The J. Bally distillery is located in Martinique. Rums from J. Bally have been reviewed 1,345 times with an average of 8.2/10.
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