La Confrérie du Rhum Saint James Brut de fût

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!

Dry profile with some tobacco, wood, dark chocolate, dried fruits and hints of fresh citrus. Once more a nice agricole rum !

Borderline woody, but great complexity!

A nugget from the brotherhood ❤️

Really heavy and woody Agricole.a nose to fall in love with.

More on the spicy/roasty side. Delicious, but almost too woody in the finish for my taste. Mild, despite the rather high alcohol content for an Agricole. Points deducted because of the excessive wood influence, otherwise it would be more like 8.5-8.6.

Very concentrated and intense after mocha, vanilla, leather, tobacco and grassy sugar cane, very bitter, tannic and very woody, yet still with a slight fruitiness of raisin and banana. Alcohol could be a little better integrated and it is overall too woody and bitter for me, but it is beautifully complex and intense!

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.

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.

nice, round St. James, on the nose many spicy notes towards clove and allspice, in the background a certain (green) freshness.

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.

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!

In the nose really one of the best rums I've ever had. But in the taste then a tick too musty in the finish. An ideal rum for people who want to slowly approach Agricoles.

Interesting expression from Saint James.. lots of spices (vanilla, pepper, cardamom), with a nice balance of fruit (grapes, red fruits and dried figs) and wood from the barrel. Given the above, I find this rum a little bit to “muted” for my taste

The alcohol comes in my opinion in the palate a little strong, otherwise very tasty, spicy and complex. Even if I am not yet a big fan of Agricole, so I like this rum very much, v.a. because the grassy notes do not dominate too strongly.