Chairman's Reserve 1931 Dark Rum

PROUDLY SAINT LUCIAN!: Chairman's Reserve is Saint Lucia's premier rum and the global icon brand within St. Lucia Distillers. Created by the mid- 1990's and perfected under the watchful eye of Laurie Barnard, Chairman of the unique distillery of the carribean island, Chairman's Reserve is nowadays enjoyed all over the world. CELEBRATING 90 YEARS OF HISTORY: : This rum celebrates the inauguration of a new distillery in February 1931 on the east coast of Saint Lucia, near Dennery in St. Lucia. The Distillery was founded by Denis Barnard and produced rum until 1972 when St. Lucia Distillers was formed out of the merging of the Dennery distillery and the Roseau Distillery. The Dennery distillery was closed as a result of the amalgamation but rum making continues at Roseau on the west coast of Saint Lucia THE ART OF BLENDING : Chairman's Reserve 1931 is a result of an extremly complex blend of distillates from our Coffey still and three copper Pot Stills. 90% of the blend is from a molasses base while 10% is from fresh sugar cane juice fermented with natural yeasts and distilled in our John Dore Pot Still. TASTING NOTES : Vibrant medium gold core with bronze rim. Sweet raisins with definite toasty oak notes, leather, spice and tobacco on the nose. Rich sultana fruit with hints of crème caramel and buttery oak on the palate. A long complex finish - at first sweet raisin fruit then dry and tannic from the oak. A hint of grassy aromatic sweetness from the sugar cane distillate gives a unique, hedonistic but balanced element to the rum.