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Chairman's Reserve Master's Selection (Royal Mile Whiskies) 2011
Neat it's almost too much straight from the bottle at nearly 61% — a good glug of water opens it right up. Expect dark tar, wood varnish, smoky molasses and vanilla, with raisins and a touch of sweet banana hiding underneath. Several tasters call out glue-and-varnish funk and an oily, "very long finish." A dark, heavy single-cask Vendome that rewards patience and a drop of water.
The community says- Oily long finish
- Tar and varnish funk
- But: Nose lags palate
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How does Chairman's Reserve Master's Selection (Royal Mile Whiskies) 2011 taste?
Aggregated from 23 community reviews.
Dark, tarry Vendome cask that needs water Well-liked across a big Chairman's crossover crowd. The palate — tar, varnish, dark fruit, oily and long — beats the nose for most; it needs water at this strength.
Fans of dark, tarry St. Lucia Vendome pot-still rum at cask strength
Anyone wanting a light, easy sipper or avoiding high ABV
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100% rate it 8 or higher. 13 selected write-ups from 23 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Dr.Django
Chairmans Reserve is one of my favorites in the rum world. Today a little wild tasting between 4 representatives. 1st UK Rum Club 2011, 9yr An average Chairmans on my tongue, which is basically already very good. Red fruits, citrus fruit, burnt sugar, spices and wood set the tone here. The alcohol is well integrated. 84 pts. 2. cigar store, 2010, 11yr Astringent on the palate and with a special musty wood-fruit note. Very tasty and also unusual. The finish is medium long with burnt sugar and fruit. 86 pts. 3. royal mile, 2011, 9yr Very smooth creamy on the palate, with more herbs than its peers. Dirty notes. 86 pts. 4th WuDramClan, 2009, 14yr Somehow a mixture of all the representatives of the tasting. Initially weak on the palate, then increasingly astringent and very dry, with lots of fruit, becoming increasingly herbal and woody with time. Very interesting, complex Chairmans. 87 pts.
Review by Gregor
Strong product. Reminiscent of gyanne. Lots of roasted woody notes with dried fruits such as prunes and raisins. Almost whisky-like due to the smoke. The note lingers on the palate for a long time. You should try it at least once.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
06.11.2021 Another visit to "Den Danske Rom & Whiskyfestival and once again with special access and many very drunk people both days. Notes. Very nice release with good overall balance. Lightly fruity and intense with medicinal notes. Oily palate with spicy touch. Very long and warm finish.
Review by Serge
as part of a Chairman's tasting directly against rx 5658
Review by zabo
At the Community Tasting Nuremberg, the great crosstesting of the Chairman's bottlings was proclaimed as a motto. In advance, I have all tasted. To date, I knew only the bottling of Kirsch and Perola. I was surprised that the flavor profiles were so different and denoch no really bad, but also none was there that has really stood out from the others. But if you see what you get at Chairman's still for his money in return, I must really say CLASS. Will probably expand my collection in this area without a guilty conscience.
Review by Jarek
Chairman's Tasting with 3x Vendome (Evanius Harris, RMW, Rum&Co), 1x Vendome & John Dore Blend (Nectar) and 2x John Dore (Kirsch, Rum Exchange). The Vendome bottlings a bit dirtier and more medicinal, the John Dore fruitier. Of the Vendome, the Evanius Harris was the most coherent for me. With the John Dore, the Rum Exchange would have won if it wasn't so woody (best on the nose), so the cherry tasted better to me. Overall #1 though was the Necktar, which combined the best of both styles, was mild, tasty and matured to the point. Here the alcohol was too dominant compared to Evanius Harris.
Review by Rowald Sweet Empire
Big flavours here. St Lucia is not for the weak. In the nose a somewhat French Oaky roasted banana feel. A bit of funk. Not unlike Worthy Park. Complex. Lovely. Taste: Boom! Elegant and intense both. Tropical fruit. Still the French Oak. Rubber. Flowers. There's so much here. Really really good.
Review by Righrum
On the nose, the vendome that impressed me less on my 5 chairman's reserve lineup. On the other hand, drinking it was way better, with a taste driven by nice glue and varnish notes. Was the nose on the same level, it would have been a clear winner.
Review by m8375e
great vendome, maybe just a touch drier than the cask for UK rum club
Review by Buddudharma
Another great St. Lucia, for its 9 years already very much on the mature side. Fantastically balanced nose, on the palate with typical notes as well as wood and caramel, the fruits are rather dark and in the background. Great alcohol integration. St. Lucia can do no wrong!
Review by Decky Hicks Doughty
The nose is very big and intense. Lots of dark tar notes with smoky molasses and vanilla. A touch of sweet banana in the background. Neat this is too much to handle on the palette so at this point I'm adding a good glug of water. After the water the palate is beautifully dark. Lots of tar and wood varnish. Raisins, tobacco and vanilla. Very moreish. The finish is quite long. The darker notes mellow out and leave menthol and a suggestion of aniseed. A beautiful rum. Deep, dark and heavy. It just needs that water.
Review by Yuv Gold
87 @ Shahaf
Review by Mads Groth Olsen
Very fruity but with a good molasses taste. Oily mouthfeel. Very long finish
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Details about Chairman's Reserve Master's Selection (Royal Mile Whiskies) 2011
A Pot Still Rum from Saint Lucia, distilled by Saint Lucia Distillers, at 60,9%.
Community purchases
15 bottles logged by 14 collectors.
A drinker & collector.
20% opened, 0 emptied and repurchased.
What did the community pay for Chairman's Reserve Master's Selection (Royal Mile Whiskies) 2011?
Community paid 74–130 €.
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