Aroma visualization from community tastings
J. Bally Brut de Fût 2009
Several tasters call this the more sober, "herber" side of Bally — wet forest wood leads, then sour cherry, bitter orange peel, cinnamon and black tea, with leather underneath. At a gentler 49.2% the wood governs everything, and you have to like bitterness to get on with it. Long, spicy finish that most owners rate highly. Agricole newcomers may find the oak and bitter edge a wall.
The community says- Sour cherry & spice
- Long warm finish
- But: Wood dominates
View price history
10 more payment methodsShopping safely on RumX Returns & cancellation
- Secure payment. You pay via RumX with PayPal, Klarna or card. Your payment data is encrypted and we never store your full card details.
- Clear seller. Sold and shipped directly by the partner shop. And you're never on your own: RumX handles support and communication with the shop, so you always get excellent service, whichever shop you order from.
- Honest shop ratings. The stars show your service experience with the shop, not the rum score. They come from RumX users, and critical ones stay visible.
- Returns & cancellation. Your purchase contract is with the shop, so returns and cancellations run through them under their own policy and your statutory rights. If anything goes wrong, RumX helps you sort it out.
The look inside the bottle
How does J. Bally Brut de Fût 2009 taste?
Aggregated from 58 community reviews.
Woody, bitter-orange agricole for oak lovers A very well-liked bottling: the wood-and-spice, bitter-orange character wins over most tasters, though a few wish it ran a touch longer and less oak-dominated.
Bally fans who love wood and bitterness
Agricole newcomers put off by bitter oak
How the community classifies this rum. Each category takes you to similar rums.
Which glass for which rum? The community guide →
28 of 58 left detailed tasting impressions · Click an aroma to explore similar rums
Recommendation
Your next rum
One difference each to this rum.
More intense
J. Bally Brut de Fût (Kirsch Whisky) 2009
8.5/10150 €
Fruitier
Wu Dram Clan Rhum J.M Brut de Fût 2015
8.8/10280 €First choice: 15 of 20 tasters who tried both prefer it.
How is J. Bally Brut de Fût 2009 rated?
RumX’s 0–10 scale is strict: 8.3 sits in the “Very good” band. 100% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 0% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
Community voices
What does the community say?
90% rate it 8 or higher. 21 selected write-ups from 58 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Dr.Django
Most helpful positive review
This rhum was bottled 10 years after the legendary 1999 Bally. It will not become a legend, but it is delicious. A Bally easy sipper that will nevertheless demand a great deal of wood and bitter aroma tolerance from its tasters. I'm really looking forward to the ratings. Agricole inexperienced tasters may be in for a nasty surprise here.
Review by SaibotZtar
Most helpful mixed review
Spicy on the nose.... Cherry, allspice and wood ... Floral notes ... Does not seem coherent. On the palate sour cherry fresh wood, black tea... lots of please notes. Not really mine ..... Medium finish and somewhat dry. Not bad but nothing you really need.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#5745 27.09.2025 Day one of the Whisky Live 2025, which this year looks better organized/arranged inside. Yet another pretty nice Brut de Fut from Bally. I have a few of these and they're really nice and carry more power than the standard range. Nice warm/spicy palate with well integrated wood and ABV.
Review by Chrischi78
Smooth Agricole with a relatively low ABV. The typical Agricole notes of herbs and hay, but also sour cherry and a little cocoa. Not a top Agricole but a good friend for a relaxed evening!
Review by LukaŽiga
8,4:On the nose, soap is a note bumping in our nosetrils, herbaceous and flowery sugarcane with a tea, yellow fruits and slightly roasted wood with chocolate, nuts and spicy with cinnamon. On aeration, more fruits reveal themselves like cherry, raisins and citrus, more roasted wood notes like butterscotch, leather, as cane brings hay. 8,2:On the palate, the attack is tasty with herbaceous, grassy and flowery sugarcane, tannins and soap, slightly bitter, resinous wood, spicy with nutmeg, pepper, cinnamon and vanilla, faint fruits with citrus. After resting the rum, a wave of green, yellow fruits and currants pop out, earthy cane honey with black tea. 8,2:The finish is long and tannic, dry, herbaceous, grassy and earthy sugarcane with black tea, the fruits are yellow, citrus with some orange, bergamot and also banana, raspberry, as the wood is spicy and slightly roasted. Edit:13.12.2025
Review by Giorgio Garotti
Un brut de fut a gradazione abbastanza bassa rispetto agli altri imbottigliamenti dove risaltano in tutta la degustazione sentori di legno umido di bosco, una parte speziata che mi ricorda i profumi del forno in inverno e una parte fruttata piacevole! Non di sicuro il profilo che preferisco ma un buon imbottigliamento dove a sorprendere è il finale lunghissimo e dove sprigiona i gusti migliori di questo rum!
Review by Eric Frechin
Rhum agricole is about average, with wood and spices dominating a little, but there's some fruitiness on the nose, with dried fruit becoming more bitter on the palate, like black cherry and orange zest. A little more alcohol in this brut de fût would perhaps have given it a little more length.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
An insanely great and intense nose, just as I imagine a long tropically matured Agricole! Cinnamon, cherry, bitter orange peel, allspice, sandalwood, something and leather polish. Intense notes of bitter orange and bergamot, spicy fresh allspice, Earl Grey tea and accompanied by intense tannins. Pleasantly woody. The cask strength of "only" 49.2% is definitely understandable here. Every drop is incredibly dense, elegant, concentrated and intense. A really good and unusual bottling with typical Bally markers. Surprisingly fair price. You have to be prepared for the bitter though. Definitely depends on your mood on the day! 😃
Review by Vincent D
Tasted at RhumFest Paris 2025. I found it wiser than its predecessors from 2004 and 2007. Big presence of bitterness and citrus. Lower alcohol content, but not disturbing for me. Pretty cool.
Review by Nils123
Super fruchtig, gerade die Kombination zwischen Kirsche, Tee und feinen Gewürzen macht ihn so interessant. Mit Wasser kommen noch Leder und Orange hinzu. Eine tolle Komplexität, gefällt mir ausgesprochen gut.
Review by Johannes
Definitiv ein hohes Niveau, ein sehr guter Agricole! Mir ist er etwas zu unrund, einerseits viel Holz im Abgang, andererseits auch florale Noten, dazwischen schöne rote Früchte.
Review by Julien Ries
Holala qu'est-ce que ça sent bon ! Ça fait bien longtemps que je n'avais pas passé autant de temps à décortiquer les effluves d'un rhum de la Martinique. Beaucoup de boisé (normal pour un Bally), des épices en veux-tu en voilà, de la vanille, de la réglisse, des grains de café, du chocolat au lait, des fruits à coque, des pruneaux et des abricots séchés, du meuble ciré... C'est tellement complexe et harmonieux ! Du grand art ! La bouche est d'une grande douceur malgré les watts bien présents, et là encore cette complexité ! Encore du boisé raffiné, du tabac, de la fève de cacao torréfié, des fruits jaunes confits, des amandes grillées. Tout est ample, gouleyant, équilibré. La finale est longue, chaleureuse, sur le bois et les épices. On est sur un très grand rhum pour un prix d'achat très très raisonnable.
Review by Righrum
I tried this rum twice, One at rhum fest and the other One at home with a clean samples. First impact was mediocre but now drinking it clean it's definitely Better. On the bitter side of this kind of rum
Review by Émile Shevek
Al naso è timido, ma consistente, con cioccolato, zucchero bruciato, spezie, leggera pelle e frutta secca. Al palato sentori di legno, tanto pepe (che sottrae rotondità), floreali, frutti secchi, agrumi. Il finale è medio, delicato e tendente al secco, ma il pepe rieccheggia a lungo. Nel bicchiere vuoto legno, pelle, floreale, terriccio e frutti secchi. Grazie a Jens per l'opportunità
Review by TheJona'Spirits
👃 Fruits secs, agrumes et rouges (pruneaux, raisins, oranges et cerises amères), épices du bois (girofle, cannelle, vanille légère). Caramel léger. Légèrement herbacé avec un peu de feuilles de thé. La canne à sucre est présente mais relativement en retrait. Le boisé amer a supplanté le distillat. 😋 Les cerises et agrumes sont amers. Beaucoup d'épices du bois (cannelle, girofle, poivre). Côté tannique, bois mouillé. Herbacé aussi, thé léger. Pas mal d'amertume des fruits et sensation d'un alcool trop présent qui pourtant ne dynamise pas suffisamment les arômes en bouche. ⛳ Plutôt courte par rapport au degré alcoolique et à ce genre de profil agricole. Bois, thé et épices en dominante, fruité oscillant entre le confit et l'amer. 💡 Après plusieurs dégustations, je ne suis toujours pas totalement convaincu par cette sélection 2009 de chez Bally. C'est bon, mais pas au delà pour moi.
Review by Maxime Clr 🇫🇷
A nose of sandalwood, spices, leather, almond, slightly buttery and soapy. Little or no fruit (perhaps a little bitter orange). On the palate, typical Bally woodiness comes first. Bitter cherry, tea and leather follow. For a brut de fut, this falls back a little quickly on the palate... the finish is short. A pleasant release, but nothing exceptional. Rather low ABV.
Review by Jizeus Christ Guitare
Nez assez boisé de prime abord, mais qui s’ouvre sur de jolis fruits mûrs et sucrés, accompagnés d’une patine (cire et vernis) très agréable, un peu "sale" aussi (le genre de boisé qu'on trouve sur certains Caroni, sans être extreme non plus !), un peu de brioche encore chaude qui rapporte beaucoup de gourmandise. Bouche un peu aqueuse / réduite à l'attaque sur les premières gorgées, mais belle gourmandise sur un boisé bien bousiné, un peu tannique, qui s’ouvre rapidement sur des fruits juteux, des épices et un joli côté pâtissier. Assez fidèle au nez finalement. Finale assez longue sur un sirop de fruits rouges / grenadine, cannelle et vanille. Astringence légère qui s'installe sur la longueur, et qui pousse à reprendre une gorgée ! Vraiment très très bon !
Review by Henry Davies
Nose is intriguing, not particularly complex but herbs and cherry with a woody backbone. The mouth is woody with some pepper and herbs. Finish is long with bergamot, orange peel and some more tea. Complex but not particularly over the top. Enjoyed it, pushing a 8.5
Review by Pierangelo Pianta
Naso convincente ma molto quadrato, bocca potente ed alcool ben integrato dal corpo viscoso , Il legno governa gli aromi Lo rende sterile in aromi … Peccato
Review by Christian Rudt
Dieser j.bally zeigt sich mehr von seiner herberen Seite. Das ist schon interessant aber so richtig treffen die Geschmackspunkte Sauerkirsche und Zimt nicht meinen Geschmack. Alkohol beißt mir auch etwas zuviel.
Review by Richard Krupa
Koření, kůže, bylinky, tráva
No reviews match this filter.
Live auctions
Current bids for this rum at Europe's leading auction houses.
Market value
Avg. community purchase price 99 €
What members paid for this bottle, self-reported. Not a market value — the purchases are over three years old at the median and unverified.
Details about J. Bally Brut de Fût 2009
A Rhum Agricole from Martinique, distilled by J. Bally, at 49,2%.
Community purchases
41 bottles logged by 36 collectors.
A collector's bottle.
12% opened, 1 emptied and repurchased.
What did the community pay for J. Bally Brut de Fût 2009?
Community paid 95–107 €.
What members actually paid for their bottles. A typical range, not the current shop price. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
41 purchased · 58 tasted · 19 wishlist · as of
About the J. Bally distillery
The J. Bally distillery is located in Martinique. Rums from J. Bally have been reviewed 1,421 times with an average of 8.2/10.
To J. Bally →Read on in the RumX Guide
You may also enjoy
Rum enthusiasts who like this rum have also given the following rums high ratings:
Rhum J.M Sélection exclusive The Nectar 2015
Rhum J.M Sélection exclusive The Nectar 2015Spicy, grassy cask-strength J.M agricole
J. Bally Brut de fût 2007
J. Bally Brut de fût 2007Woody, spicy aged agricole for neat sipping
Savanna Art of Rum by Yann le Gall 2014
Savanna Art of Rum by Yann le Gall 2014Herbal, woody Savanna that rarely wows
Isautier La Cour Foundation 2009
Isautier La Cour Foundation 2009Fruity, cognac-cask Reunion agricole at 59%
Romdeluxe Chairman's Reserve Master Selection (Romdeluxe) 2000
Romdeluxe Chairman's Reserve Master Selection (Romdeluxe) 2000Dry, tannic 21yo St. Lucia with cherry nose
Savanna Unshared Cask Czech Republic 2026
Savanna Unshared Cask Czech Republic 2026Never miss a price drop.
Set a target price in the app, and we'll let you know as soon as the rum becomes available at that price from one of our partner stores. This works for any rum on your wish list.
Oliver · FounderBy rum lovers, for rum lovers
I'm Oliver, and RumX began in 2018 as a small passion project in Stuttgart, back then under the name Rum Tasting Notes.
What began as my digital tasting diary is now the world's most comprehensive platform for rum fans, today carried by a small team with Jakob, Lukas and Katharina, with Robert supporting us as a freelancer. We combine the collective intelligence of our community with an integrated marketplace, so you can choose with confidence, without paperwork, detours, or expert jargon.
Oliver, Stuttgart
About RumX →YouTube channel (in German)
