# White rums for sipping **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Created:** [January 5, 2023, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.rumx.com/t/white-rums-for-sipping/6653 "2023-01-05T12:23:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![les](https://community.rumx.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/db5fbb/32.png) [@les](https://community.rumx.com/u/les)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 12:23pm UTC](https://community.rumx.com/t/white-rums-for-sipping/6653/1 "2023-01-05T12:23:37Z")
so I been sipping rums many years but when it comes to white rums I only ever had cheap ones to mix are there white rums that you can sip it’s something I never done …plus I wouldn’t have a clue about good white rums that don’t need mixing I have seen some white rums but costing over 50 .I think that’s too expensive to start with just in case it’s not my thing ---
**Author:** ![Henry](https://community.rumx.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@Henry](https://community.rumx.com/u/Henry)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 12:37pm UTC](https://community.rumx.com/t/white-rums-for-sipping/6653/2 "2023-01-05T12:37:28Z")
It’s personal preference of course, but there are some very good white sipping rums! I like to drink the 1403 SBS Origin Series Rums neat as well as in Cocktails. Savanna Lontan and HERR are probably my favorite whites. WPE (e.g. [RX319](https://rumx.com/en/rums/319/)), Clairin in general and agricoles are great too! When it comes to agricole baie des tresoirs is my favorite so far. ---
**Author:** ![JakobM](https://community.rumx.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/c4cdca/32.png) [@JakobM](https://community.rumx.com/u/JakobM)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.rumx.com/t/white-rums-for-sipping/6653/3 "2023-01-05T12:45:06Z")
Agree, there are some great whites ones for when I’m in the right mood and what something very vibrant and „unmuted“ In particular, the Neisson L‘espirit was great and I had a white DOK in a bar in Amsterdam that was great as well 🎊 Very curios about the Grand Arome Savanna… I have the Velier HERR unaged but that’s not my cup of tea ---
**Author:** ![les](https://community.rumx.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/db5fbb/32.png) [@les](https://community.rumx.com/u/les)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 12:56pm UTC](https://community.rumx.com/t/white-rums-for-sipping/6653/4 "2023-01-05T12:56:38Z")
ok I will have a look thanks ---
**Author:** ![Rodolphe](https://community.rumx.com/user_avatar/community.rumx.com/rodolphe/32/235_2.png) [@Rodolphe](https://community.rumx.com/u/Rodolphe)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.rumx.com/t/white-rums-for-sipping/6653/5 "2023-01-05T15:23:33Z")
We see these last years a “premiumization” of the white rum. We are no longer only in front of products intended to be mixed. This category still exists, but a new category has appeared: the white rums of tasting. There are more and more of them and honestly, some are really surprising (great white vietnam for example is really surprising). Of course the prices are also much higher than the others, even very high sometimes (around 70€ or 80€ for white rums I find it very expensive). But around 40€/50€ you can find white rums with a lot of “personnality” and which are really worth to be tasted for what they are. Of course then I love to mix them and see what it gives in cocktails. Because it’s like in cooking, the quality and the taste of the basic ingredients really matter in the final result! ---
**Author:** ![GueuzeTraveler](https://community.rumx.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/898d66/32.png) [@GueuzeTraveler](https://community.rumx.com/u/GueuzeTraveler)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://community.rumx.com/t/white-rums-for-sipping/6653/6 "2023-01-05T16:11:01Z")
I mostly drink unaged rums, just neat with nothing else. My three bottles I go through the most are Neisson Blanc, Paranubes, and Clairin Vaval. The Neisson L’Esprit mentioned above is probably my favorite but at 70% I try not to go through that one too much. Aged rum is usually more focused on the barrel characteristics, where as with unaged rum the base ingredients, fermentation, and distillation type can shine more. I know the 3 I mentioned above are cane juice but that doesn’t mean I dislike unaged rums made from cane molasses(I loved the Velier Worthy Park 502) or cane syrup(River Antoine is great). ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://community.rumx.com/user_avatar/community.rumx.com/leo/32/12636_2.png) [@Leo](https://community.rumx.com/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.rumx.com/t/white-rums-for-sipping/6653/7 "2023-01-05T16:43:32Z")
Yes, there are a few good white rums to sip. I can post 2 of my favourites lately. Both are jamaican, so I dont know if you are into that: Around 45€: > **[The Rum Mercenary & Kintra Hampden Sample Seventeen 60,5%](https://rumx.com/en/rums/8441/the-rum-mercenary-kintra-hampden-sample-seventeen/?utm_source=rumx&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rumx-forum)** > > Hampden The Rum Mercenary & Kintra Sample Seventeen – unaged high-ester funk, tropical fruit and glue notes. Rated 81/100 from 31 RumX reviews. Around 50€: > **[Habitation Velier Long Pond White STC❤️E 2018 Unaged 62,5%](https://rumx.com/en/rums/1067/habitation-velier-long-pond-white-stce/?utm_source=rumx&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rumx-forum)** > > Long Pond White STC❤️E by Habitation Velier – intense fruity, funky Jamaican ester bomb loved by RumX (135 reviews, 82/100). If you are looking more into the “good mixing rums, that also can be sipped”-category I can highly recommend the new Single Origin Rum Series by SBS, that we were able to test in Berlin at the GRF 2022, all neat and in a daiquiri. > **[Le Galion S.B.S French Antilles Grand Arome (Single Origin Rum) Grand Arôme...](https://rumx.com/en/rums/13273/le-galion-sbs-french-antilles-grand-arome-single-origin-rum-grand-arome/?utm_source=rumx&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rumx-forum)** > > Le Galion S.B.S French Antilles Grand Arome – dry, fruity, vegetal, salty funk. Rated 79/100 from 67 RumX community reviews. > **[Long Pond S.B.S Jamaica (Single Origin Rum) TECA 57%](https://rumx.com/en/rums/13569/long-pond-sbs-jamaica-single-origin-rum-teca/?utm_source=rumx&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rumx-forum)** > > Long Pond 1423 S.B.S Jamaica TECA – unsweetened 57% high-ester funk with pineapple and solvent notes. Rated 80/100 from 85 RumX reviews. And there was a not so good Port Mourant and a very, very good Dominican white Rum in this series of 4. They all cost around 35€, so I think they are a great deal for a high-quality mixer. ---
**Author:** ![lukasdrinkinghabits](https://community.rumx.com/user_avatar/community.rumx.com/lukasdrinkinghabits/32/25_2.png) [@lukasdrinkinghabits](https://community.rumx.com/u/lukasdrinkinghabits)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 5:19pm UTC](https://community.rumx.com/t/white-rums-for-sipping/6653/8 "2023-01-05T17:19:30Z")
> [@Leo](#): > > And there was a not so good Port Mourant and a very, very good Dominican white Rum in this series of 4. Don’t let them foo you. It was the other way around ---
**Author:** ![les](https://community.rumx.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/db5fbb/32.png) [@les](https://community.rumx.com/u/les)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 8:53pm UTC](https://community.rumx.com/t/white-rums-for-sipping/6653/9 "2023-01-05T20:53:29Z")
will look ok cheers ---
**Author:** ![Oliver](https://community.rumx.com/user_avatar/community.rumx.com/oliver/32/33024_2.png) [@Oliver](https://community.rumx.com/u/Oliver)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2026, 11:24am UTC](https://community.rumx.com/t/white-rums-for-sipping/6653/10 "2026-06-04T11:24:00Z")
Coming back to this one. Sipping-worthy white rums kept coming up, so there is now a proper [white rum overview](https://rumx.com/en/categories/white-rum/?utm_source=rumx&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rumx-forum) with the community’s ratings. Several bottles from this thread sit near the top.