Chairman's Reserve Pot-Still (JD 2) / Coffey Still 0096-10-2009 - Chips/Rum Curious Private Selection

This is a Chairman's Reserve nobody else has — a single cask selected by Chips Liquor together with Rum Curious, and bottled just for us. St. Lucia Distillers — the island's only distillery, founded in 1931 in the Roseau valley — runs four stills, and its private cask program lets a retailer pick one: this is a marriage of rum from the distillery's John Dore 2 pot still, the heavy, funky heart of Saint Lucian rum, and its Coffey column still, distilled in 2009, aged in ex-bourbon oak on the island, and bottled at cask strength from cask 0096 with no additives; check your label for the exact ABV and outturn. Where the standard Chairman's Reserve blends are proofed to 40 to 46% and built for consistency, a single cask at full strength shows what one barrel of Saint Lucian rum does over more than a decade in the tropics: expect the JD2 pot still's signature — overripe banana, cooked tropical fruit, a savory ester funk — concentrated and deepened, with the Coffey rum adding a cleaner caramel and honey line, and the long tropical aging bringing tobacco, dried fruit, leather, and oak, finishing very long, warm, and complex, opening beautifully with a drop of water. Honest note: this is a collector's bottle in a small run, and once it's gone there won't be another exactly like it. For the rum enthusiast who wants a Saint Lucian cask at full strength, chosen by people who taste a lot of rum. Neat, slowly.

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