Chairman's Reserve Spiced Rum

Chairman's Reserve Spiced is the rare spiced rum built on a serious base. St. Lucia Distillers — the island's only distillery, founded in 1931 in the Roseau valley — starts with the same blend of pot- and column-still rums as the Original Chairman's Reserve, the English-style rum that made Saint Lucia a reference, and infuses it with a mix of Caribbean spices and fruits: cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, vanilla, allspice, orange peel, and, distinctively, bois bandé — the bark of a local tree Saint Lucians have used in folk tonics for generations. Bottled at 40% ABV. Because the base is real Chairman's Reserve rather than a young column spirit, the rum still shows underneath: expect a nose of warm baking spice, orange peel, and vanilla over the Original's cooked banana and molasses, opening into a rich, spicy, gently sweet palate where the clove and cinnamon are layered rather than dumped in, the bois bandé adding a faintly earthy, bitter edge, and the pot-still funk still audible, finishing long and warm. Honest note: it's a spiced rum, sweeter and softer than the unflavored bottlings, and Drinkhacker's roundup treats it as the mainstream end of the range — but among spiced rums it's one of the few that enthusiasts respect. For a spiced rum and ginger beer, a Painkiller, a hot buttered rum, or a spiced Old Fashioned with a Saint Lucian accent, it's the thinking drinker's spiced rum.

Buy Chairman's Reserve Spiced Rum online with fast shipping right to your door.