Famille Ricci Navy Blend by RumX 2025
Loved by Johannes, Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰 & 75 more
For experienced palates: a dry, high‑proof navy blend of Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana and Caroni. RumX members praise its complex mix of roasted wood, mint, red and tropical fruits with a long, warming finish.
- Complex navy profile
- Dry, long finish
- Evolving in glass
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Bold, complex navy blend for explorers For experienced palates: a dry, high‑proof navy blend of Jamaica, Trinidad, Guyana and Caroni. RumX members praise its complex mix of roasted wood, mint, red and tropical fruits with a long, warming finish.
Fans of dry, high‑proof navy blends who enjoy roasted wood, minty Trinidad notes and Jamaican esters, and like taking time with a glass to let it open up.
Beginners or those sensitive to 57% ABV, anyone preferring sweet, soft rums, or drinkers who dislike tannic, astringent, woody finishes.
How is Famille Ricci Navy Blend by RumX 2025 rated?
RumX's 0–10 scale is strict — 8.6 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 Johannes
Wow, extremely good blend! Hampden dominates slightly, but you can still taste Guyana and Trinidad. Really good!
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#5700 27.09.2025 Launch of the future RumX Release. Nose Fresh, wood, light roasted, light anise, light floral, faint tar, faint banana, faint mint. Palate Wood, roasted, medium spicy, faint mint, faint cherry, light licorice, faint tar, warm, light astringent. Finish Very long and warn, medium spicy, wood, light tannins, light dried fruit Empty glass Light wood, light caramel, light dried fruit, faint sour, faint mint.
Review by cigares
A rum tasted at bar 1802 during the RumX party at WLP25 and at the first RumX meeting. A nose with a very broad aromatic palette, but each component appears a little timid, drowned in the mass. Edit: re-tasted and the Jamaican and Guyanese notes take over. The first taste is soft, then the aromas rise a little. Here too, a very broad aromatic palette where the fruity, floral and spicy notes of the TDL dominate. Edit: TDL is rather dominated by Jamaica and Guyana. The finish is balanced and elegant. A great success, even if the quest for balance was, for my taste, to the detriment of personality. Edit: the finish is less balanced but has more personality. I prefer it. I don't feel the Caroni in the blend. Edit: the Caroni is perceptible at the very end. It doesn't seem to be the same rum, Oliver explains that it was well oxygenated before the final bottling.
Review by DomM
Very well balanced and exceptionally enjoyable. Needs some time in the glas to open up and show its full potential.
Review by LukaŽiga
8,7:On the nose, copper, roasted wood and allspice, evolve pastry, tropical fruits like banana, minty, flowery molasses, bump into our nosetrils. On long aeration, it's potential grows and balances, as tons of various confectionery arises, salted caramel, roasted nuts, some anise, delightful red fruits and rubber, tar. 8,7:On the palate, the attack shows the complexity of this rum with tons of roasted wood notes like butterscotch, roasted nuts, various confectionery, sweet and salty, spices, pure oak, as tropical fruits like banana and pineapple, cherries, minty molasses, even dark with licorice, industrial marks with rubber and tar, quite strong copper, even esters. 8,6:The finish is long, tannic, the roasted wood shows darker facet with cocoa, still spicy, the molasses is fresh and minty, the fruits dried and tropical.
Review by Rodolphe
Super ricci / rumX evening at 1802, a huge thank you to all 3. A tasting to be taken in hindsight, because after a day at the live venue, a Korean restaurant and a daiqiri high ester, it needs to be tasted more calmly. A good blend, very well produced. Each provenance makes a statement.
Review by TheJackDrop
Une sacré claque ! Un vrai profil heavy. Un nez très ouvert qui oscille entre Jamaïque et Trinidad, de la menthe et bcp de fruits notamment la banane. Mais en bouche bien plus lourd torréfié et épicé. Pas de doute avec ça les marins devaient bien se marrer tous les jours. À regoûter au calme car après un Whisky Live et bcp trop de Daiquiri au Bar 1802, le palais était en feu. Mais c’est tellement imposant que certaines notes étaient évidentes. Le Caroni n’est pas là pour la déco.
Review by Chrischi78
The Navy Blend from Famille Ricci and RumX is balanced and harmonious, but remains somewhat restrained. Spices, wood and nuts meet subtle exotic notes without any one flavor dominating. Easy to drink, I really like it
Review by Dr.Django
Die Namen der Rums im Blend versprechen so einiges! Sehr leckerer Navy Rum, bei dem der Jamaica Anteil für mich heute am meisten hervorragt. Intensiv, serviert er seine Aromen doch eher mit der feinen Klinge. Der Abgang ist leider etwas kurz.
Review by Julien Ries
L’exotisme ravit le matelot et on sent le parfum capiteux des fruits exotiques (papaye, mangue, fruits exotiques) dans l’haleine légèrement estérisé de la courtisane, mêlé à la sueur des hommes d’équipage qui n’ont pas eu le temps de se laver après avoir goudronné les fils de carets des manœuvres dormantes. Ce goudron Caroni nappe les narines comme si l’Exxon Valdez vous rotait à la gueule. Un camphre mentholé vient en fond un peu comme un vieux loup de mer au fond du bar qui se ferait poser un cataplasme à la guibole, pour masquer l’odeur d’une infection qui demandera une jambe de bois. D’ailleurs, la jambe a fini d’être taillée dans un mât et on y applique les finitions. Le salin des embruns accompagne le vernis à bois. Tout ça est musqué, on sent que c’est un rhum gourmand et harmonieux comme une gourgandine bien charpentée qui va encaisser la solde du moussaillon pour le déniaiser. L’attaque est franche comme une rixe au tesson de bouteille entre deux ivrognes qui se sont fait voler leurs tot mugs, ces petites tasses en étain pour leur ration de rhum quotidienne. La bouche est aussi explosive d’un coup de mousquet, sur les fruits exotiques et la réglisse, aussi acide que le contenu d’un crachoir pour du tabac à chiquer. Une amertume assez marquée mais passagère est vite relayée par ce goût de garage huileux. Un mécano aux mains calleuses et noires de cambouis vient de vous mettre un pain pour avoir fait des yeux doux à la fille de joie qu’il convoitait. Vous vous réveillez en remettant votre bâchi sur la tête, époussetant votre pompon.
Review by Timo Groeger
Nice blend, but somehow lacks that certain something for a top rating. At least I find it better than after the boozy night at the community meeting :) Otherwise, all the components are recognizable here: mint, wood, tropical fruits, esters, but also some dark chocolate. Only the typical Caroni is somehow missing.
Review by Alex1981
Shy nose, hints of mint and dark/ red fruits Mouth dominated by TDL, a bit dirty funk, Jamaica is there, New Yarmouth taking center stage after a while, nice esters, wood, wild on the tongue, wood spices, dark fruits, integration of the components could be better, finish medium long, dry, tannins, hints of tar Good rum, but for a Navy rum missing the dark, leather, cigar notes of Guyana Disclaimer: might be influenced by a day of drinking at WL25 😇
Review by Thunderbird
I've now had this bottling in my glass for the 3rd time... and I have to say... it's good, but unfortunately it falls short compared to the Spirit of the Day and Trinidad of Soul... it lacks a bit of complexity, the fruit content is quite low
Review by TheRhumhoe
Le Navy Blend de Famille Ricci et RumX est tout en équilibre et retenue. Le nez est timide de prime abord et à besoin de temps pour que les arômes se libèrent. On ressent les épices, le bois et les noix dans un premier temps, ce n’est qu’après un certains temps qu’une forme d’exotisme se dévoile entre la banane, le goudron, le menthol et le caramel. L’équilibre fait que les arômes se neutralisent. Les arômes tentent une percée en bouche mais à force de chercher l’équilibre, rien ne se différencie du lot. Le profil de New Yarmouth semble prendre le dessus avec son côté classique (non péjoratif, surtout pour associer les notes épicées, caramélisées, boisées, toastées et les fruits secs) mais l’ensemble manque de personnalité pour se différencier du reste. Un peu de goudron et de menthol s’ajoutent dans le lot mais sans faire mouche. L’alcool reste bien intégré. La finale est courte, mince et nous laisse sur notre faim. On retrouve le profil classique sur les épices, le boisé et le caramel. Quelques notes fruitées viennent par-ci et là sur ce profil tannique et sec. Un bon rhum à boire, qui mériterait sans doute un peu d’oxydation pour s’exprimer pleinement.
Review by Skyfly
A very complex blend in which all three islands are recognizable from nose to finish. I cannot detect any real dominance. Great Guyana notes with wood and dried fruits meet light esters and tropical fruits from Jamaica. The TDL brings some nice mint with it, but the Caroni is only perceptible in accents. Conclusion: A good blend, but not a top-class navy blend
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116 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 76 members.
About the Caroni distillery
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