Aroma visualization from community tastings
Chairman's Reserve Spiced Original
Tell me when it gets cheaper
Tell me when it's back in stock
Price alert in the RumX app
Open in the app
Got the app? Open this bottle
Opens this rum in the RumX app
Sip it neat, on ice, or in cola and you get orange peel, cinnamon, clove and nutmeg over a sweet molasses base — several tasters call it "Christmas in a bottle." Built on Chairman's Reserve rum with spices infused on top, it's genuinely varied for a spiced bottle, though the orange and sweetness dominate. One reviewer even caught a bubblegum note.
The community says- Real spice balance
- Orange and clove
- Keep in mind: High sugar content
Offers & prices
View price history
Returns & cancellation Secure payment Sold by Rum & Co
- Secure payment. You pay via RumX with PayPal, Klarna or card. Your payment data is encrypted and we never store your full card details.
- Clear seller. Sold and shipped directly by the partner shop. And you're never on your own: RumX handles support and communication with the shop, so you always get excellent service, whichever shop you order from.
- Honest shop ratings. The stars show your service experience with the shop, not the rum score. They come from RumX users, and critical ones stay visible.
- Returns & cancellation. Your purchase contract is with the shop, so returns and cancellations run through them under their own policy and your statutory rights. If anything goes wrong, RumX helps you sort it out.
10 more payment methodsLive auctions
Compare all 5 offers from 24.57 €
Total prices incl. shipping to Germany
Sorted by total price · How we rank
Prices and availability as of
We show the offers that deliver to your country, the cheapest including shipping first. The “Top Shop” label does not change the order, and no shop can buy a better place.
Offers & prices
No shop currently delivers to Germany.
The look inside the bottle
How does Chairman's Reserve Spiced Original taste?
From community reviews · summarized with AI
Sweet, orange-and-cinnamon spiced holiday sipper Most agree it's one of the better spiced rums — balanced spice, real orange, and not cloying. The catch: it's clearly sweet and the orange can overpower, and purists find it drifts toward liqueur.
Aroma profilePeople who enjoy sweet, spice-forward rums and festive mixers
Purists after dry, unsweetened traditional rum
Style & occasion: Sweet & dessertSipping neatCocktails & mixing
Full aroma profile Aroma families · nose & palate · top aromas
Relative to this rum's strongest aroma family
28 of 109 left detailed tasting impressions · Click an aroma to explore similar rums
Which glass for which rum? The community guide ›
Buying advice
Is it right for you?
Yes, if you're after sweet, dessert-like rums for sipping neat.
Similar in style and available now.
Drier
Chairman's Reserve Spiced7.2/10 (33)31.81 €
More intense
Chairman's Reserve Original7.1/10 (194)31.90 €
32 rated both: 16 scored it higher, 13 scored Chairman's Reserve Spiced Original higher, 3 gave both the same score.Woodier
DDL El Dorado 127.3/10 (545)40.48 €
What does the community say?
109 community reviews
Rating scale & review checks
On RumX, 7 means “Good” and 8 means “Very good”.
See the full rating guideHow ratings are made and how we check them ›The website shows a selection of written reviews. The distribution also includes ratings without text. All published reviews are available in the RumX app.
35 selected written reviews
The distribution above includes all 109 ratings, including those without text.
Review by Marijke Rum & Spelletjes
Most helpful positive review
We start our games and rumtasting evening with delicious homemade food and this rum to go with it. Delicious rum, nice and sweet and spicy.
Review by Decky Hicks Doughty
Most helpful critical review
The nose hits you full force with orange peal followed closely by cinnamon, clove and grapefruit with subtle hints of caramel after as if to say "there is rum under this spice". The palate is very sweet, not clogging but very, very sweet. The spices follow after the sugar. Clove, cinnamon, cardamom and orange peal all present and all pretty powerful. The spices stay for the finish but there is a roasted nut not that takes me back to the unspiced Chairman's Reserve. Overall, I prefer the unspiced and by quite some way. Though, if you like spiced rum. This has the spice in spades.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#5613 31.08.2025 Chairman's Reserve tasting at the German Rum Fest 2025. I was kind of surprised at this one. Usually I don't like spiced rum but this one is pretty well balanced. The price tag is also pretty good and I'd like to try it in a cola one day. The wood is well balanced with spices and some orange and clove. Medium long finish that has some cinnamon and citrus to it. There is a natural sweetness to it and I think most will be able to drink it.
Review by Stefan Persson
This is one of the better spiced rum I’ve tasted. The rating is based on having it neat, but I’ve mostly used it in a spicy Negroni. The base is CR Original a blend of molasses rum from both pot and column still aged in ex-Bourbon casks for an average of 5 years. The spices is infused for the last 6 months of that period. Infused spices is among others “bois bande”, cinnamon, vanilla, allspice, clove, lemon and bitter orange and around 20gpl of sugar. The nose is fruity, spicy, round and woody with scents of orange, cinnamon, clove, caramel, melon and grapefruit. At the palate it’s sweet, spicy, fruity and round with flavors of cinnamon, orange, clove, nutmeg, cardamom and a hint of licorice. The finish is medium long, spicy, fruity and nutty.
Review by Stevie Slick Probert
smells of Christmas with the taste of nutmeg and cloves touch vanilla and orangey after taste which lingers smoothly away
Review by rum_sk
A cheaper variation of A.H. Riise's Christmas edition rum based spirit. Very nice indeed, I like it especially in cold winter months and during whole December to prep. for Christmas and also during them. You can smell a lot of christmas spices such as clove, cinnamon etc. The taste is exactly the same but with addition to ginger which is dominant from all spices. Medium finish, sweet and tasty as a spiced rum should be. Very enjoyable spiced rum made in St. Lucia. I really love it, jt instantly teleports you to Christmas if you are tasting it outside of festive holidays.
Review by Lutz Lungershausen
The rich spice notes make it exciting and complex, but mask the rum character and push it somewhat in the direction of herbal liqueurs. Still: I like the fruity nose and the fresh, lively palate
Review by Christoph
Super intense nose, especially orange. Perfect for an Old Fashioned.
Review by Old Pirate 🏴☠️🇨🇿
For me, to much of spices in it. But, to be honest, it's made from good rum (Chairman's Reserve) and it will be more enjoyable during Christmas, because the flavouring is a like some Christmas desert (Swedish cinnamon and something else?).
Review by Émile Shevek
You can really feel the mandarin and obviously the bouquet of spices, it has good body and balance. Unfortunately, I don't like spiced rums, but in its category, it's well made.
Review by Smashed Cherries
This one through me off with the smell of orange instead of vanilla. The sweet and spicy flavors are unique and stand on their own. A well crafted rum.
Review by Mirjam van den Berg-Geers
Delicious rum. Nice start to a game night
Review by Leslie Haigh
as spiced rums go it's very good
Review by Ruminator
The Chairman Spiced uses real flavors. The smell is dominated by orange and citrus. A little clove. Quite sweet on the palate. Here, more clove comes through along with orange, and in the finish a bit of oak. You can tell it has 40%. A nice entry-level - not pre- spirit with a Christmas character.
Review by Rick Meyer
No burn with an abundance of orange, clove and cinnamon …. nose and palate. Tasty! EDIT: I strongly recommend spiced rum be in its own category for the ratings system here. The wide swings in scores don’t represent the category, instead we get those that prefer 55%+ rocket fuel rating a spiced rum in the 5-6 range. It completely skews the bias of the group.
Review by Cino
Spiced rum, you have to like it. Any purist would wrinkle their nose. Cinnamon dominates and the sweetness is really very strong.
Review by Sven Erbe
Spiced hits it exactly... tasty spicy variety. Little sweetness but fitting. Actually almost more for the cold season.
Review by thomas fraboulet
Incroyable en Rum Old Fashioned, Cable Car ou encore Spiced Negroni. Épicé, sucré avec des notes d'orange, de cannelle, de clous de girofle et de muscade. Un rapport qualité prix difficile à battre à 22€ la bouteille de 1L.
Review by Zoran Moritz
It’s not bad, but for my taste the orange flavor stands out too much. Don Papa Rum is still better—smoother and more balanced.
Review by Solidfunk
Cinnamon, caramel, vanilla. Dark golden pour. It's certainly nicer than the Cruzan or various Captain Morgan varieties, but that shouldn't really be a surprise. The spices tastes more genuine and the Rum less sugary and syrupy. Had a glass in St. Croix.
Review by Mateusz
It’s certainly the best spiced rum I tried. Very cointreau like!! Sweet, orangey and nutmegy! Lovely if you have a sweet tooth
Review by AlSting
The only spiced rum I would repurchase or recommend. The fruit and clove spices can give the rum interesting additional notes without the sweetness smothering it. Surprisingly diverse in flavor for a sweetened rum, a harmonious blend.
Review by Alan Hudson
Great blend of complex spices, certainly on the sweeter side but not to the point that it masks all the other flavours, really enjoyed it!
Review by Jack Hemsworth
A very nice spiced rum with the spice front and centre.
Review by Anonymous
For my taste a bit too perfumed. But quite suitable for mixing.
Review by Thomas Thorsen
Too much Orange taste
Review by Christian Rudt
nice spiced, very good for mixing. makes you want to go to St. Lucia
Review by Craig Henthorn
I'll be honest, this review is from memory, as I haven't drank chairman's spiced in a few months, but this is my first review, and chairman's has left a lasting impression on my palette. That should say enough already. Chairman's spiced is my idea of Christmas in a bottle. Strong notes of Orange and orange peel, along with cinnamon, nutmeg and other wintery spices. Tastes good with some ice, or mixed with coke. This one deserves a permanent spot on the shelf
Review by Jørn-Einar
To much spice for me. Im glad i didnt buy a whole bottle🤣
Review by Nate Olechowski
Taste like bubblegum but not too overpowering.
Review by Peter
Good when it’s Xmas
Review by Vince Kennis
Orange is the main taste,and cinamon and cardemon
Review by Matt
I made this account for the sole reason of warning people just how bad this rum is. I’ve tried numerous rums over the years. I mainly enjoy more aged, dark rums. Especially love Guyana, Barbados and Jamaican rum. Like many, I started out with spiced rums, and I wanted to branch out and try something different from the standard, bland ones you see everywhere. This particular bottle was very highly rated, one of the top-rated on both RumX and RumRatings, and unlike some of the rarer high-rated bottles, it was fairly easy to get. That made me curious to try it. I’ve now tried it in many different ways: neat, on ice, in a Cuba Libre, just with coke, in a Planter’s Punch even out of curiosity as an old fashioned and I just can’t seem to make it drinkable. The best way I can describe the taste, and especially the aftertaste, is bubblegum. It has a very candy-like quality. Strangely, it doesn’t taste artificial, but I can’t imagine what spice or combination of spices could ever naturally create this flavor. It’s sweet, pungent, and has this bizarre bubblegum note that feels like it shouldn’t even exist in a rum. It’s such a weird, off-putting profile that I can’t wrap my head around it. At this point, the bottle will probably rot in my cabinet forever. I can’t think of a single drink I could use it in. Even in something overpowering, like a Moscow Mule or mixed into Dr. Pepper, the pungent bubblegum flavor bulldozes everything else. It just never tastes good.
Review by Áron
Ranking it down now. After re-visiting the now opened bottle after few weeks, it developed a bitter aftertaste. Like biting into an orange pith. Not sure why
Review by Abrahan Reyes
I'm not a fan of spiced rums, but this one isn't bad. However, it's a bit too sweet for my taste. The nose carries notes of caramel and cinnamon, with the palate emphasizing cinnamon. The aftertaste is pleasant as the initial sweetness fades, giving way to a lingering vanilla flavor.
This selection contains no written reviews in this rating range.
Expert reviews
Reviews from RumX's blog partners, independent experts who have tasted, evaluated, and described this rum.
Expert review by RUMprobiert
Read full review ›
Expert review by Rum Diaries Blog
Read full review ›
Chairman's Reserve Spiced Original at live auctions
A bid is not a final price: the house sets the buyer's premium, shipping and any customs duty.
All live auctions ›Community shelf
178 bottles logged by 154 collectors.
Both drunk and collected.
30% opened, 24 emptied.
What does Chairman's Reserve Spiced Original cost?
Community paid 18–34 €.
Current best price: 24.57 € – within the typical community range.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 26 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ ›
+5 additions in the last 3 months.
Additions per month over the last 12 months; dark bars: the last 3.
178 purchased · 118 tasted · 69 wishlist · as of
Details about Chairman's Reserve Spiced Original
A spirit drink on a rum base from Saint Lucia, distilled by Saint Lucia Distillers, at 40%.
Read on in the RumX Guide
You may also enjoy
Rum enthusiasts who like this rum have also given the following rums high ratings:
Goslings Black Seal Rum
Chairman's Reserve The Forgotten Casks
Plantation Grande Réserve
Set a target price in the app, and we'll let you know as soon as the rum becomes available at that price from one of our partner stores. This works for any rum on your wish list.
Oliver · FounderBy rum lovers, for rum lovers
I'm Oliver, and RumX began in 2018 as a small passion project in Stuttgart, back then under the name Rum Tasting Notes.
Oliver, Stuttgart
About RumX ›YouTube channel (German, English subtitles)
