Chairman‘s Reserve Vintage
Smoky, woody, balanced – great value
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RumX members praise this Saint Lucia vintage for its smoky tobacco-and-oak profile balanced by dried fruit and hints of caramel. At an approachable 46%, it’s often enjoyed neat, with some using it in classic cocktails. Reviewers note a warm finish with leather and nutty touches, and many highlight the strong value. A popular pick on RumX with 80 reviews, though a few find the charred/briny edge pronounced.
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The Saint Lucia Distillers distillery is located in Saint Lucia. Rums from Saint Lucia Distillers have been reviewed 4,103 times with an average of 8.2/10.
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Overall an powerful, complex, fruity, spicy and smoky rum. Bought two bottles of this rum from Svet Nápojov in Slovakia. The brand Chairman’s Reserve from Saint Lucia Distillers (SLD) saw the day of light in 1999 under supervision of Laurie Barnard, and is today their most appreciated rum if you ask me. SLD use molasses imported from the Dom. Rep. and some sugar cane juice from sugar cane grown in Saint Lucia. They use open tanks for fermentation and four different stills, one Coffey column and three different pot stills. All their rum is tropically aged on site mostly in ex-Bourbon casks, but sometimes also in Port casks. The 2009 is their second released vintage. It’s entirely molasses based distilled in their Coffey Still and two of the pot stills (John Dore II & Vendome). Thereafter the different distillates was aged separately for 11 years in ex-Bourbon casks whereafter it was blended and married for some more weeks before bottled at ABV 46%.
A chairman that I like less. It's hardly fruity, quite smoky in the direction of charcoal. Then you think it's somehow salty. The cask is also a little bitter. Scotch fans would definitely like it.
#5169 28.03.2025 Running through some samples at home. Nose Medium intense, wood, light roasted, spice, faint smoke, light leather, dried fruit, light plum. Palate Warm, medium dry, wood, light roasted, faint chocolate, raisin, light leather, light tobacco, faint caramel, light nutts. Finish Long and warm, medium dry, wood, faint smoke, dried fruit, light leather, light nutts. Empty glass Chocolate, light caramel, vanilla, light prunes, light banana.
8,5:The nose of this rum brings us nougat garnished with fatty nuts. Among them, peanut, almond, walnut with a light layer of varnish. The vanilla, caramel and some sweet spices continue to fill the wood, giving it a definitively melting side.Aeration gives us more roasted side with iodized, smoky/tobacco, resinous, even briny notes, then herbal notes and very ripe exotic fruits, whose fermentation releases a certain acidity with some orange peel. These fruits become thicker, dried and sweeter, complementing pastry notes in the end. 8,5:The palate is perfectly balanced between the two facets from the nose, but also from the point of the power of the attack. The heat is delightful and quite gourmand. The very ripe exotic like banana and dried, red fruits(especially prunes are intense)give way to oily citrus peels, which feed on sweet spices, candied roasted nuts and nice earthy peat, bacon along the way.There are also some vegetal, medicinal, metallic, briny notes and finally milk chocolate . 8,2:The finish is fruity, syrupy as pastry-like, buttery, with cherry pits and raisins, dry, the wood is toasted, some smoke stays, the chocolate is dark now. Really nice rhum🙂👌.