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Rhum J.M Fumée Volcanique
"Smoky, salty and funky" is how one taster nails it — this young J.M leans on heavily charred casks for burnt-sugar, peaty, whisky-like notes over a grassy agricole base. Several people call it a rum-meets-peated-whisky crossover. Others find it a bit young and chaotic, and a few barely catch the smoke at all. At 49% it reads dry and spicy.
The community says- Charred smoky character
- Different from usual agricole
- But: Young, lacks depth
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How does Rhum J.M Fumée Volcanique taste?
Aggregated from 125 community reviews.
Smoky, whisky-like young agricole crossover Most taste a smoky, whisky-leaning agricole from burnt barrels — good value and genuinely different. The catch: only a year old, so some find it thin, harsh, or short on depth.
Peated-whisky drinkers curious about agricole
Purists wanting a classic, aged Martinique agricole
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What does the community say?
78% rate it between 6 and 8. 19 selected write-ups from 125 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Stefan Persson
Most helpful positive review
Tasted this rum together with the other two releases in the Atelier series out in my summer house in the Stockholm archipelago. This one is the one year old Fumée Volcanique and it’s really living up to its name just as the other two. The nose is soft, salty and very smoky with aromas of butter, caramel, lime and honey. At the palate it’s intense, smooth, spicy and very smoky with flavors of honey and anise. The finish is rather long.
Review by The Magic Concierge
Most helpful critical review
Tasty but too strong for me
Review by Timo Groeger
Kneipe The Rumah Rotterdam April 2026. Und noch einen Rhum J.M hinterher, ist sehr holzig und rauchig auf jeden Fall, der Barkeeper meinte er wäre peated. Kann man jetzt nicht so deutlich erkennen, ist aber möglich.
Review by TheRhumhoe
A wood-aged rum for cocktails. The barrels in which this cuvée rests have been tampered with, immediately bringing out the empyreumatic notes on the nose. The smokiness, even burnt, of the barrels comes through, as do marshmallow, caramel and toasted almonds. Spices combine with empyreumatic notes to mark a relatively youthful profile. Tropical fruits, including coconut, take pride of place in this promisingly aromatic nose. On the palate, smoky, spicy notes dominate without moderation. Burnt sweetness, vanilla, nuts and a touch of alcohol (Armagnac) make up the bulk of the profile. Fruit is much more in the background. A more concentrated, simplistic profile on the palate. The rather brief finish blends woody, spicy and empyreumatic notes with more grassy and agricultural ones. A certain bitterness emanates on the finish. If the nose announced something innovative, the rest of the profile remains more summary and limited by the low degree and rather succinct aging. A more mature cuvée with this type of profile might be interesting. Nevertheless, this remains a good rum, particularly for bars and cocktails, to which it will add character.
Review by Vincent D
A l'odeur, du fruit d'abord, du bois ensuite. Un peu pareil côté palais : beaucoup d'alcool, du bois et des fruits mais je cherche encore le côté fumé. Il gagne en finesse a l'aération et se révèle beaucoup plus agréable après quelques minutes à température ambiante.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#4432 Whisky & Rom Festival 2023 28.10.2023 Notes. Very different J.M profile with some fruit and a smoky note. Dry with some peat notes after resting for a while. Price to quality is very good.
Review by RumTaTa
Crossover aus Rum Agricole und mildem rauchigen Whisky.
Review by primus
Man Man Man hat der Power. Sehr würzig in der Nase, witzigerweise habe ich hier viel Melassearoma erfahren. Im Geschmack ein Kampf der Titanen Würze, Holz und agricole Frische. Recht langer Abgang, aus der reihe der längste. Geschmacklich für mich aber etwas chaotisch - dementsprechend aber sehr treu dem Namen!
Review by lujgjoker
Amber color with rich and quite complex olfactory picture.Aroma of sugarcane,caramel,citrus and quite spicy.On the sip it has persistent aromas and quite long finish.Honestly, I was not very enthusiastic about it.
Review by Djehey
Worth the price.
Review by LukaŽiga
8,1:On the nose, rum reveals notes of smoke/volcanique scents and roasting that remain quite subtle and allow the agricultural rum to stand out. The ripe cane is present as well as dried fruits, raisins. The whole is simply laid down on a well roasted woody note. A pretty jam of various yellow fruits, citrus, starts to stick to our nostrils, before the apricot takes the lead. 8,1,:On the palate palate, it is fresh and fluid on the attack, with a nice ray of sunshine from the cane juice, mineral, syrupy with yellowfruits.Then, the spices with vanilla, pepper and wood with a touch of resin, quickly take over the palate, stinging it with fiery clouds that then rise up in smoke. You can actually taste a vulcano! The pepper takes advantage of this to spread its flavours in all dimensions, until it intoxicates us with its intensity. 8:The finish is quite light, dry, spicy, but long, compared to the lively mid-palate, raspberry is the leading fruit. This rum is a great example of real smoky rums, not just by name, it is not ment just for cocktails, but also for enjoying it neat-sipping..
Review by Xianut Trezz
Le rhum JM fumée volcanique n’est pas un rhum hors d’age ou de prix et pour autant je m’y plonge avec plaisir… le plaisir d’un rhum pur jus de canne au goût tellement végétal et naturel… mais c’est évidement la fumée volcanique qui affine son caractère… c’est boisé… d’un bois noirci… l’espace d’un instant je me suis projeté dans la maison de campagne de mes grands parents. Maison aux parquets de bois et aux meubles massifs… un rhum qui vous fait voyager… un rhum qui fait naitre des images… un rhum bon… c’est ce que j’attends d’un rhum ! Ca et l’envie d’y retourner ! C est parti !!! Ciao !
Review by Solidfunk
Agricole grass aroma is bigger here than the Garden Fruits and Creole spices. Light golden. Caramel, vanilla. A slight aroma of vegetable. Sweet and spicy. I don't get that smoke vibe I get from Terroir Volcanique, which was something special. 7.3
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
could have a little more bang and seems a bit watery oddly enough despite 49% but aromatically it is very exciting and nicely complex 🔥
Review by Александр Иванов
Ok, next Martinique Agricole. Nose: light intensity. But very interesting. Menthol, eucalyptus, mint. Little bit of smoke, banana, apricots, flowers, herbals, licorice, black tea. Really good. Taste: harshly, full bodied spirit. Smoke, roots, tea, iodine, rubber, apricots, apples, black pepper & ginger. Little less mint & eucalyptus. Young, but not bad. Finish: medium, dry. Spicy, earthy, little metallic & herbs. So, it's quite interesting rum, for this price, but not a dream. You can buy it, if you want some experiment. Aroma - strong side of this one.
Review by Rowald Sweet Empire
Very classic delicate Agricole in the nose. Subtle oak. Olive. Chamomille. Lemon. All good so far. The taste does not surprise me either. All those flavours come back fair and square. Very dry. Very drinkable. And a very well priced quality agricole. Nothing "fumee/smoky" btw. Must be a reference to the volcanic soil only. Retaste: light and fresh and minerally. Still good.
Review by M@xiM
Аромат: очень яркий аромат тростника с копчёным нотами, аромат лимонада, перечные дымные ноты, очень яркие травяные ноты которые очень напоминают текилу. Вкус: сладкий, травяной копчённый вкус, полностью продолжающий нос. Среднее травяной послевкусие с горечью. Да, такого рома я ещё не пил. Обожённые бочки определённого дают аромат и вкус. А с учётом того что это ром один из 3х в коктельной линейке, то это очень интересно. Вот такой наверное должен быть Мексиканский ром, т.к. вслепую я бы точно сказал что это выжержанная в бочке текила. Только сладость с горечью на послевкусии выдаёт основу сахарного тростника. Но именно как ром мне такое не зашло совсем. Aroma: very bright reed aroma with smoked notes, lemonade aroma, peppery smoky notes, very bright herbal notes that are very reminiscent of tequila. Taste: sweet, herbal smoked taste, completely extending the nose. Medium herbal aftertaste with bitterness. Yes, I haven't drunk such rum yet. Burnt barrels of a certain give aroma and taste. And considering that this rum is one of the 3 in the cocktail line, it is very interesting. That's probably what Mexican rum should be, because blindly I would definitely say that it is aged in a barrel of tequila. Only sweetness with bitterness on the aftertaste gives out the basis of sugar cane. But it was as a rum that I did not go at all.
Review by Michael Turner
Milder Agricole mit einer zurückhaltenden Rauchigkeit, die ich eher als Würze bezeichnen würde. Alles sehr ausgewogen, die 49 % kann ich nicht ausmachen. Guter Trinkrum, dem Tiefe und Nachklang fehlt.
Review by Johan Larsson
Like an agricole took a year off in Scotöand. Very easy to drink and not a lot of classic Agricole. But nice.
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Details about Rhum J.M Fumée Volcanique
A Rhum Agricole from Martinique, distilled by Rhum J.M, at 49%.
Community purchases
200 bottles logged by 193 collectors.
A drinker & collector.
28% opened, 15 emptied and repurchased.
What does Rhum J.M Fumée Volcanique cost?
Community paid 21–46 €.
Current best price: 30.50 € – within 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+ →
+5 purchases in the last 3 months.
Added to collections, last 12 months — dark bars are the last 3.
200 purchased · 132 tasted · 40 wishlist · as of
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