{"id":114625,"date":"2026-06-04T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/?p=114625"},"modified":"2026-06-04T10:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:06:23","slug":"bordeaux-rhum-festival-rumporter-second-exclusive-bottling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rumporter.com\/en\/bordeaux-rhum-festival-rumporter-second-exclusive-bottling\/","title":{"rendered":"Bordeaux Rhum Festival: Rumporter unveils its second exclusive bottling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Official poster \u2014 Bordeaux Rhum Festival 2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

On Saturday 6 June, the Bordeaux Rhum Festival celebrates its seventh edition at the Palais de la Bourse. A day of tastings, encounters and masterclasses that turns Bordeaux into the capital of rum for a weekend \u2014 and where Rumporter will unveil, on its stand, its second exclusive bottling as a preview.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Seven editions to make Bordeaux the capital of rum<\/h2>\n

Founded in 2017, the Bordeaux Rhum Festival<\/a> has established itself as the city’s first event entirely dedicated to rum. Its founding ambition is simple: to make Bordeaux “the international capital of rum for a weekend”, and the Palais de la Bourse “the finest cellar in France”. The nod is no coincidence: a city of wine and a great port turned towards the West Indies, Bordeaux also lived, very early on, off the trade in sugar and cane spirits.<\/p>\n

The setting lives up to it. Built between 1742 and 1749 by the architects Jacques and then Ange-Jacques Gabriel, the Palais de la Bourse, on the former Place Royale, gives the show one of the finest backdrops in France. For this seventh edition, themed around the Caribbean carnival, the organisers promise “more brands, more cocktails and more surprises than ever”.<\/p>\n

The recipe stays the same: a friendly, human-scale show where you taste freely, meet producers at their stands, and follow expert-led masterclasses to dig deeper into a terroir, a style or a distillery. Practical details: the festival takes place on Saturday 6 June at the Palais de la Bourse (Place de la Bourse), in two sessions \u2014 from 12pm to 3pm (last pours at 2:45pm) and from 3:30pm to 6:30pm (last pours at 6:15pm). Tickets are on pre-sale via Eventbrite, and trade professionals can request accreditation by email, with proof of activity, from the organisers.<\/p>\n

Exhibitors, brands and independent bottlers<\/h2>\n

The 2026 line-up takes you from one shore of the rum world to another. On the agricole side, Martinique is well represented \u2014 Saint James, Depaz, Trois Rivi\u00e8res, La Favorite, HSE \u2014 alongside P\u00e8re Labat for Marie-Galante. The English- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean answer the call with Appleton Estate (Jamaica), Barbancourt (Haiti), Angostura (Trinidad), Santa Teresa and Ron Car\u00fapano (Venezuela), Botran (Guatemala) and Coloma (Colombia).<\/p>\n

The show also makes plenty of room for independent bottlers and merchant houses, who reveal rare casks and signature blends: Rum Nation, Kirk & Sweeney, Dos Maderas, Canerock, Barlovento, Ampov and Stade Rum, not forgetting distributors such as DistillSpirit. From agricole cane to great molasses blends, there is enough here to plan a real round-the-world trip, glass in hand.<\/p>\n

Rumporter, its exclusive bottlings and the Fontaines masterclass<\/h2>\n

At the heart of the show, Rumporter holds its stand. The rum-culture magazine welcomes its readers around its latest issue and subscriptions, led by its editor-in-chief, Alexandre Vingtier. It is also the place to discover its exclusive bottlings \u2014 a series designed to carry the magazine’s editorial spirit into the glass.<\/p>\n

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Alexandre Vingtier, editor-in-chief of Rumporter, presents the magazine’s second exclusive bottling. \u00a9 Rumporter<\/em><\/p>\n

The first, the Cuv\u00e9e Tha\u00eflande (Collab’ #1), set the tone: a single cask of 12-year-old Thai rum finished in a barrel of R\u00e9mi Landier white Pineau des Charentes, ranked No. 1 of the 76 rated Thai rums on RumX<\/a> (8.3\/10). This year, the spotlight falls on the preview of Rumporter’s second exclusive bottling: the Vatted Rum #1, the first creation in the “Carte Blanche” series made with the house of E&A Scheer. The blend marries a 2011 Guyana (MDB2 mark, Diamond distillery) and a 2015 Jamaica (JMM mark, Clarendon, high ester), aged in American oak, selected and signed by Carsten E. Vlierboom, Chief Rum Officer at E&A Scheer, and bottled at natural strength.<\/p>\n

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“A masterful balance between the woody richness of Guyana and the estery exuberance of Jamaica.” \u2014 Carsten E. Vlierboom, Chief Rum Officer at E&A Scheer, who created the blend.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A highlight of the stand, a live masterclass will be devoted to the Fontaines du Chai 27 by Landier & Vingtier, the independent ageing and bottling house (Rouillac, in the Charente) behind these selections. On the programme, eight expressions that sum up its eclecticism: two Grand Ar\u00f4me from Le Galion (the 2025 “F\u00fbt 15”, floral and honeyed, and the 2021 “Wall Cask”, funkier), a white agricole Bielle Marie-Galante (69%, pure cane juice), an 18-year-old Spanish rum (2006 vintage) finished in an ex-Thai-rum cask, a light Jamaica aged in a fine Bordeaux barrel (55%), a second 12-year-old Thailand at cask strength finished in first-fill Heaven Hill bourbon, and two South African Mhoba, the GHE “Greaves’ High Ester” (65%) and its reinforced GHE 1.5 version (70%).<\/p>\n

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Bordeaux Rhum Festival \u2014 Saturday 6 June 2026, Palais de la Bourse, Place de la Bourse, Bordeaux. Sessions from 12pm to 3pm and from 3:30pm to 6:30pm. Tickets at bordeauxrhumfestival.com<\/a>. Find Rumporter and Alexandre Vingtier on the magazine’s stand.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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