Rhum Saint James is one of the oldest and largest Martinique rhum agricole producers, founded in 1765 by Père Edmond Lefébure at the Sainte-Marie distillery on the north-east Atlantic coast of Martinique. The Saint James estate is particularly associated with the square-bottle packaging that became the house's signature and with the transition from column-distilled industrial rum to the agricole style that defines the estate today. Saint James operates within the AOC Martinique framework: fresh cane juice, column distillation, minimum ageing requirements for classified expressions.

The Saint James range covers blanc, ambré, VSOP, XO, and vintage millésimé releases. As one of the historically significant Martinique houses, Saint James provides the established estate narrative at the centre of the French Caribbean rum appellation story. For programmes building a Martinique agricole education from unaged blanc through to long-aged vintage expressions Saint James offers the combination of producer scale (consistency, availability) and terroir narrative (Atlantic-coast Martinique, specific estate history) that supports detailed by-the-glass programming.