Chairman’s Reserve Master Selection 15 Year Old (59.6% abv)

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On the nose, there is sweet brown sugar, molasses, tree sap, vanilla, cake frosting, alpine forest, almond, and grapefruit zest. The palate opens sweet, with vanilla, prunes, and allspice up front. Salted toffee follows behind, with rich oak spice, cardamom, slightly bitter tannin, and plum and peach sweetness. It’s a dry rum by any measure, but certainly on the sweeter side of ex-bourbon aged pot still rums. With 15 years of tropical aging, you can risk bitterness and over-extraction of the wood, but here there is only richness and depth, with a beautifully integrated oak tannin to balance it out. It’s a big rum – and untamed, but let it show you its world and we promise you’ll be as enchanted as we are.