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Swell de Spirits

French curator chasing high-ester funk from Savanna, Hampden and Trinidad

  • Cask-strength high-ester focus
  • Savanna and Hampden specialists
  • Transparent marks and distilleries
Loved by Eric Frechin, Vincent D, Florent Apl & over 2,300 more

Swell de Spirits is a French independent bottler with a clear taste for the loud end of rum — high-ester Jamaicans, Réunion’s Savanna, and lesser-mapped stills like Le Galion and a Mexican high-ester distillery. The house style leans wild rather than polite: tropical fruit, olives, brine, solvent and smoke, usually bottled at cask strength so nothing gets sanded down.

The community rates the range highly, with a median of 8.5/10 across 2,945 reviews. Reviewers trust the sourcing and repeatedly point to fair pricing on scarce casks — the New Yarmouth 1994 “Flashback” gets called out as one of the earliest, more affordable bottlings of that vintage. When something misses, it’s usually a blend or a lighter TDL that reads flatter than expected.

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As of July 2026

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8.5/10
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2,945
bottles catalogued
75
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17

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Woody Tropical fruit Vanilla Ester

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Woody Tropical fruit Ester Fruity
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9.0–10.0 Excellent Stash as many as you can afford. Tell no one.
8.0–8.9 Very good Bank a backup. Tell everyone you meet.
7.0–7.9 Good Buy one and recommend it to your friends.
6.0–6.9 Pleasant Solid, super glad I drank it.
5.0–5.9 Average Totally acceptable.
4.0–4.9 Drinkable Not vocally complaining.
3.0–3.9 Poor Wish I was drinking something else.
2.0–2.9 Very poor Nothing nice to say.
1.0–1.9 Unpleasant No, that's not for me.
0.1–0.9 Inedible Pour it out.