Chairman‘s Reserve Vintage 2009
For curious explorers, this 11‑year Saint Lucia blend leans dry, smoky and woody with tobacco, leather, roasted nuts and dried fruit. RumX members enjoy it most as a contemplative sipper or with a cigar.
- Complex profile
- Great value
- Smoky tobacco notes
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Smoky, woody Saint Lucia charmer For curious explorers, this 11‑year Saint Lucia blend leans dry, smoky and woody with tobacco, leather, roasted nuts and dried fruit. RumX members enjoy it most as a contemplative sipper or with a cigar.
Fans of dry, smoky rums with tobacco, leather and roasted wood notes, especially whisky drinkers or cigar lovers looking for a characterful yet accessible 46% sipper.
Those seeking sweet, fruity or ultra-smooth rums, or drinkers sensitive to smoky, charred oak and mild alcohol bite.
How is Chairman‘s Reserve Vintage 2009 rated?
RumX's 0–10 scale is strict — 7.9 lands squarely in the "Good" band. 90% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 0% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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Review by DJ Wolfson
I’ve enjoyed just about every bottle from Chairman’s Reserve but this is my favorite sipper. Very smooth and easy to drink. The smell is sweet and almost confectionery, but not in an additive way. The kick of alcohol is short and quickly overpowered by a rounded blend of roasted nuts and fruits. So far I’ve tried it in a El Presidente (my goto for aged rums) and it was good. But the subtleties of this drink are expectedly drowned out. So that’s probably the first and last time I’ll use this for that spec.
Review by Stefan Persson
Overall an powerful, complex, fruity, spicy and smoky rum. Bought two bottles of this rum from Svet Nápojov in Slovakia. The brand Chairman’s Reserve from Saint Lucia Distillers (SLD) saw the day of light in 1999 under supervision of Laurie Barnard, and is today their most appreciated rum if you ask me. SLD use molasses imported from the Dom. Rep. and some sugar cane juice from sugar cane grown in Saint Lucia. They use open tanks for fermentation and four different stills, one Coffey column and three different pot stills. All their rum is tropically aged on site mostly in ex-Bourbon casks, but sometimes also in Port casks. The 2009 is their second released vintage. It’s entirely molasses based distilled in their Coffey Still and two of the pot stills (John Dore II & Vendome). Thereafter the different distillates was aged separately for 11 years in ex-Bourbon casks whereafter it was blended and married for some more weeks before bottled at ABV 46%.
Review by Thomas Renoud
One of my all time favorite
Review by Roman Staroń
Good quality. Fairly short xapach and flavor finish. To sit with a cigar but of low strength.
Review by LukaŽiga
8,5:The nose of this rum brings us nougat garnished with fatty nuts. Among them, peanut, almond, walnut with a light layer of varnish. The vanilla, caramel and some sweet spices continue to fill the wood, giving it a definitively melting side.Aeration gives us more roasted side with iodized, smoky/tobacco, resinous, even briny notes, then herbal notes and very ripe exotic fruits, whose fermentation releases a certain acidity with some orange peel. These fruits become thicker, dried and sweeter, complementing pastry notes in the end. 8,5:The palate is perfectly balanced between the two facets from the nose, but also from the point of the power of the attack. The heat is delightful and quite gourmand. The very ripe exotic like banana and dried, red fruits(especially prunes are intense)give way to oily citrus peels, which feed on sweet spices, candied roasted nuts and nice earthy peat, bacon along the way.There are also some vegetal, medicinal, metallic, briny notes and finally milk chocolate . 8,2:The finish is fruity, syrupy as pastry-like, buttery, with cherry pits and raisins, dry, the wood is toasted, some smoke stays, the chocolate is dark now. Really nice rhum🙂👌.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#5169 28.03.2025 Running through some samples at home. Nose Medium intense, wood, light roasted, spice, faint smoke, light leather, dried fruit, light plum. Palate Warm, medium dry, wood, light roasted, faint chocolate, raisin, light leather, light tobacco, faint caramel, light nutts. Finish Long and warm, medium dry, wood, faint smoke, dried fruit, light leather, light nutts. Empty glass Chocolate, light caramel, vanilla, light prunes, light banana.
Review by Martin Švojgr
Terribly interesting tobacco taste with a sweet slightly sour skin. In the aroma I smell tobacco together with a floral fragrance - could it be roses? In taste, the sour skin reminds me of bacon after a while. A very interesting sample.
Review by Mateusz
Simply one of the most enjoyable aged rums I tried. Complex flavour notes and lovely balanced. Quality aged. Dry, sour and smoky. Incredible value!
Review by Sebas143
Tasted at German rum festival Best of chairman's reserve I have tasted so far.
Review by Christoph
Lots of tobacco and coal paired with some lime. Not mine, but qualitatively good rum.
Review by Nivius
Unfortunately, not as good as the 2005 that got me hooked on St. Lucia. However, the St. Lucia glue is nicely present, as are the first woody notes, which are already becoming more complex. It's great in drinks and it's also delicious when drunk neat.
Review by Filip Heimerle
Admittance more delicate
Review by Matej
After long pause finally I have time to sit and try my newest bottle. Aroma is very sweet at first, I noticed hints of honey, raisins and banana. What I like about this one is that smoly/woody/tabacco tones, which males this rum much more “gantleman-ish”. But…. Taste is something different. It’s acts like this is not the same rum at all. There is hint of some fruit (really do not know which one), but there is much strong flavor of spice, tabacco, smoke, cigars, I would like to say almost charcuterie (smoked meat), but in a good way. Finish is quite long with buttery/creamy hints but those tabacco/smoke flavors are still dominant. Very nice “come back” for me. It is very nice rum for sipping.
Review by Boletus
Als die Flasche frisch geöffnet war, fand ich diesen Saint Lucia doch ein wenig anstrengend. Die ein oder andere alkoholische Spitze machte sich bemerkbar und im Mund war er für mich fast schon überholzt. Mit sinkendem Füllstand haben sich diese Wogen aber zunehmend geglättet. Der Rum besitzt zwar immer noch einen kräftigen Eicheneinfluss und auch der Alkohol blitzt ab und zu noch durch, jedoch entwickelt er trotz des etwas dünnen und trockenen Abgangs ein harmonisches und erstaunlich komplexes Aromengefüge mit angenehmer Trinkbarkeit.
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96 bottles logged by 52,000+ RumX members. The ratio of closed / opened / emptied, indicates whether this rum is meant to be drunk or is a collector's item.
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About the Saint Lucia Distillers distillery
The Saint Lucia Distillers distillery is located in Saint Lucia. Rums from Saint Lucia Distillers have been reviewed 4,602 times with an average of 8.2/10.
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