First blended in 1999 Chairman’s Reserve Original Rum has become the multi-award-winning flagship of Saint Lucian rum. A mix of light and heavy rums from both Coffey column stills and copper pot stills the components are aged in ex-Bourbon barrels for an average of five years before being married together and matured in oak for six months more. Sip it neat to revel in its varnished wood toffee apple tobacco festive fruitcake barbequed banana stuffed with chocolate buttons rum and raisin ice cream coffee and oaky woodsmoke flavours. Alternatively it takes the classic rum cocktails to a whole new level particularly a Daiquiri.
Attracted by the island’s expansive sugar plantations the Barnard family established their distillery on Saint Lucia in the 1930s. For a long time all was happy on this tropical paradise surrounded by breath-taking waterfalls unspoiled rainforest palm-fringed beaches and the towering Piton Mountains but sadly the rise of the European sugar beet looked like it would kill off centuries of rum making heritage. The last sugar plantation closed in the 1960s being replaced with more lucrative bananas. So the two remaining distilleries on the island – Dennery on the Barnard’s plantation and the other in Roseau owned by the Dutch company Geest – joined forces creating Saint Lucia Distillers. Creating stunning rums under the Chairman’s Reserve brand using molasses sourced from Guyana shipped into the jetty at Roseau Bay they saved the island’s rum culture. With three pot stills and a continuous still Saint Lucia Distillers are able to make all kinds of rum but the focus always remains quality over quantity.
SKU No.: 3361706
Style No.: 854060
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 40%
Volume: 700ml
First blended in 1999 Chairman’s Reserve Original Rum has become the multi-award-winning flagship of Saint Lucian rum. A mix of light and heavy rums from both Coffey column stills and copper pot stills the components are aged in ex-Bourbon barrels for an average of five years before being married together and matured in oak for six months more. Sip it neat to revel in its varnished wood toffee apple tobacco festive fruitcake barbequed banana stuffed with chocolate buttons rum and raisin ice cream coffee and oaky woodsmoke flavours. Alternatively it takes the classic rum cocktails to a whole new level particularly a Daiquiri.
Attracted by the island’s expansive sugar plantations the Barnard family established their distillery on Saint Lucia in the 1930s. For a long time all was happy on this tropical paradise surrounded by breath-taking waterfalls unspoiled rainforest palm-fringed beaches and the towering Piton Mountains but sadly the rise of the European sugar beet looked like it would kill off centuries of rum making heritage. The last sugar plantation closed in the 1960s being replaced with more lucrative bananas. So the two remaining distilleries on the island – Dennery on the Barnard’s plantation and the other in Roseau owned by the Dutch company Geest – joined forces creating Saint Lucia Distillers. Creating stunning rums under the Chairman’s Reserve brand using molasses sourced from Guyana shipped into the jetty at Roseau Bay they saved the island’s rum culture. With three pot stills and a continuous still Saint Lucia Distillers are able to make all kinds of rum but the focus always remains quality over quantity.
SKU No.: 3361706
Style No.: 854060