Chairman's Reserve Spiced is what spiced rum should be: a quality rum base enhanced by genuine spices, not a neutral spirit dressed up with artificial flavourings. Produced by St. Lucia Distillers from a blend of their Creole pot still and column still rums, it uses real cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, vanilla, citrus peel, and bois bandé — a bark native to the Caribbean with a distinctive bitter-sweet character.
The rum base brings genuine character rather than just alcohol, and the spicing is measured and balanced. This is a spiced rum that tastes like rum, spiced — rather than spice, with a bit of rum.
On the nose, expect cinnamon bark, vanilla, allspice, orange zest, clove, nutmeg, and coconut. The palate is warm and generous with cinnamon, allspice, clove, dried fruit, vanilla cream, and the distinctive bitter-sweet note of bois bandé. The finish is warming and spiced with a pleasantly dry close.
Excellent in a Spiced Rum Punch, with ginger beer, or neat over ice. A genuine step up from the mass-market spiced rums.
