Chairman's Reserve Master's Selection (RA & Rum Tasting Notes) 2011
Chairman's Reserve Master's Selection (RA & Rum Tasting Notes) 2011Minty, smoky Saint Lucia at cask strength
From the community into the bottle
RumX Co-Bottlings
Six bottlings that would not exist without this community: selected with you, bottled with partners we trust.
6
Co-bottlings
1,505
Bottles in total
2020
First bottling
What a co-bottling means to us
For us a co-bottling is not a label with a logo on it. It is the moment an app turns into a community: we taste cask samples, debate them in the forum, and the rum that ends up in the bottle is the one we stand behind together.
We have done this six times so far, each time with a different partner and each time with its own story. Here they all are, in the order they came to life.
2020 · Rum Artesanal
How it all began
In 2020 RumX was still called Rum Tasting Notes, and the young community produced its first own bottling: a Chairman’s Reserve Master’s Selection from Saint Lucia Distillers, vintage 2011, selected together with the independent bottler Rum Artesanal.
That bottle showed me that a tasting app can be more than a notebook: when enough tasters share their verdict, the industry listens.
2022 · Grape of the Art
A second chapter on Saint Lucia
I co-founded Grape of the Art in 2021, and in 2022 we returned to Saint Lucia together: another Chairman’s Reserve Master’s Selection, this time from the 2005 vintage. How the community helped pick it is documented in the forum thread.
Since 2025 I am no longer part of Grape of the Art: I wanted to focus fully on RumX. I am still proud of this bottle.
2025 · Precious Liquors
99 bottles, each signed by hand
For the third bottling we went to Jamaica: Long Pond, vintage 2005, marque VRW, bottled with Precious Liquors. Just 99 bottles, and I signed every single one by hand, with the buyer’s community name on the label.
The whole run, from cask sample to allocation, is documented in the community thread.
2025 · Swell de Spirits
The best single cask of the year
Together with Swell de Spirits we bottled a T.D.L from Trinidad, vintage 2001. At the RumX Awards 2025 the community voted it the number one single cask.
What the release looked like is captured in the forum thread.
2025 · Famille Ricci
A navy blend with Caroni at its heart
With Famille Ricci we built a navy blend with Caroni at its core. What navy rum actually is, our guide explains; how the blend came together is in the making-of. At the RumX Awards 2025 the community voted it second among the blends.
We celebrated the release at Bar 1802, and the pictures live in the community thread.
2026 · Savanna
The cask everyone talks about
Our most recent co-bottling is also our biggest: a Savanna Grand Arôme, tropically aged for 17 years on Réunion Island, single cask no. 991, 445 bottles. How the community unlocked this cask is told in the forum.
The full story, from the first sample in Paris to the label by graffiti artist Xandro, lives on the dedicated release page. And there is more about the distillery in our Savanna portrait.
All six at a glance
With current community ratings and, where still available, the best prices.
Chairman's Reserve Master's Selection (RA & Rum Tasting Notes) 2011Chairman's Reserve Master's Selection (Grape of the Art & RumX) 2005
Chairman's Reserve Master's Selection (Grape of the Art & RumX) 2005Dry, roasty St. Lucia pot-still sipper
Precious Liquors Long Pond Jamaican Rum (Selected by RumX) VRW 2005
Precious Liquors Long Pond Jamaican Rum (Selected by RumX) VRW 2005Rich, tropically-aged Long Pond funk bomb
Swell de Spirits T.D.L (RumX) 2001
Swell de Spirits T.D.L (RumX) 2001Intense minty, cassis-and-oak Trinidad sipper
Famille Ricci Navy Blend by RumX 2025
Famille Ricci Navy Blend by RumX 2025Layered four-island Navy blend, best neat
Savanna RumX Co-Bottling Grand Arôme 2007
Savanna RumX Co-Bottling Grand Arôme 2007Intense, mature Grand Arôme — strawberry, ester, wood
Be there for the next cask
Our co-bottlings grow out of the community: you taste along, you vote, you get the bottles first. If you want in on the next cask, get the RumX app and drop by the forum. Every new bottling is announced there first.Oliver, Founder of RumX