Chairman’s Reserve 1931

Dark golden amber in colour. The bouquet shows toasted oak and fresh baked cookie dough, some dry fruity notes with honeyed raisins with a hint of cocoa nibs, polished leather and oak spice with fresh corned Cornish butter and toasted brioche. The palate brings fruit bread, honey, some organic notes of soft sweet grass and wood sap hints of crème caramel, some rich dark fruit flavours across the middle and finish of the palate as this rum lingers with flavour up on flavour to deliver a balanced finish.

Produced by St. Lucia Distillers, Chairman’s Reserve was established in 1999 by second-generation managing director Laurie Barnard as the preeminent Saint Lucian rum, an ode to the iconic style developed by the Barnard family. When many in the rum industry were focused on making the liquor more profitable with less character, Laurie Barnard sought more character in his products. He believed the best rum is achieved by blending different components together of ages, finishes, styles, and base materials. To create Chairman’s Reserve, he experimented with blending respective casks of pot still rum and column still rum. By returning the blended rum back into oak barrels for additional aging, Barnard created a soft, well-balanced, and flavourful spirit that has become the benchmark for St. Lucian rum.