Les Ephémères - N°1

Precious wood, campher, red fruits, waxy, fresh cane. So classy, so balanced, so Saint James 😍

For me, the best Agricole I have ever drunk (apart from a 51 Clemént). 😍

Un nez dense et net, du boisé (un bois parfumé), des fruits secs et du camphre. La bouche est généreuse avec du rôti, du bois parfumé et de l’abricot. La finale est longue et très équilibrée, une merveille. Un rhum complexe, profond et équilibré. Whoua ! Le rhum agricole au meilleur de sa forme. Merci Rodolphe pour le sample.

Une bombe, tout simplement. Un rapport qualité prix génial, très au dessus de l’éphémère 7.

Just got two bottles of this limited release which is the first of a series of four if I have understood it correctly. From opening the bottle the flavours just come at you and there was no doubt this was a good one. The nose is well balanced with wood and fruits from the start followed by spices and a wonderful roasted note. The palate is complex and also very well balanced, warm and woody with dried fruit, spices and spices and again this wonderful roasted note. The finish is long and woody with dried fruit and spices. Now this has me hooked on the next two releases supposed to be released in September 2022 (No. 2) and the final two (No. 3 and No. 4) in 2023.

This is the first rum in Cellar Master Marc Sassier's series, which celebrates the distillery's best vintages. After distillation, the rum was aged in November 2001 in 190-liter American oak casks, where it matured for 19 years in Sainte-Marie's cellars and was bottled on 13/04/2021. The taste is slightly sharp, woody and herbaceous. The aftertaste is resin and lots of burning wood with tannins. Long and very bitter.

The quintessential spirit of Saint James. This is a very well-balanced rum, juggling notes of aged precious woods, spices, chocolate, tobacco, as well as floral and pastry notes to create a complete aromatic palette. A beautiful complexity that carries through to the palate, with roasted, woody and spicy flavors, dried fruit and red berry notes, and a vegetal freshness. The whole is very harmonious, round and aromatic. The very long finish continues with the vegetal freshness previously felt, notably eucalyptus, floral and vegetal notes that brilliantly accompany the rest of the profile, fruity but drier, woody and spicy. A rum of unprecedented quality for an indecently low price.

Complimenti a saint James che qui tira fuori un grande rum! Alcol perfettamente integrato, la canna da zucchero si fonde benissimo con i sentori di legno tostati.. Una delle migliori bottiglie della distilleria uscite ultimamente! Favoloso!

If the rhum is in the glass, it also immediately exudes its aroma. The rhum has a great color in the glass, which radiates warmth and conviviality. Beautiful how the rhum unfolds its full aroma with time and time should be given to him. Very fine bubbly in the glass. The nose is fruity, nutty, woody, you can smell vanilla, sugar cane, baking mix and some nail polish. The taste is dominated by spiciness, fruit, spice, grass, nutmeg, clove and wood. On the palate, the rhum is rather woody, earthy, grassy, spicy, nutty and rather dry on the way. A great bottling, harmonious, elegant all components support the taste and not least the overall impression.

Very nice selection st James un grand agricole....

Very horny nose - really great Agricole essence! On the palate, despite its long, tropical aging, still drinkable and not too woody. Quite dry. Great mouthfeel. Absolutely recommended for all lovers of Agricole at cask strength. And that too at an unbeatable (issue) price.

For me, this is by far the best of the St. James Epheremes series. As with the others, dried fruits, wood, spices,... dominate here. Mint is also very present here. The whole rum is very dry, but that fits here. A really cool ageicole!

Very good, wonderfully balanced, yet intense and complex Agricole!

decidedly delicious nose, with nougat, dried date and apricot, wood barrel and something that reminds me of butter croissant, framed by an unobtrusive floral freshness. The palate is very spicy, with caramel and sandalwood. This harmonizes very well with the already somewhat higher ABV for St. James standards. For 115 EUR here is a fantastic Agricole! Grab it!

Cross-tasting of the 4 Ephemeres Saint James: The 2001 is by far the best. Great balanced Agricole, which is the oldest in the group at 20y, but after the 2007, which is the youngest, tastes the least woody and bitter. 2007: nice, rather fruity, 8.3. 2006: bitter and woody in comparison, 7.9. 2005: balanced (8.5), but not as fine as the 2001 (8.9).