Chairman's reserve legacy rum

Beautiful notes of butterscotch raisins on the nose, Christmasy smell. Taste of vanilla and dried fruits, missing sweetness though

Smooth and oaky. Vanilla in the nose. Flavor is sweet, then unpleasantly bitter. A small amount of burn, but not much

Un assemblage de rhums de mélasse et agricole. Superbe et très complexe. Bizarrement moins de volume en bouche que la cuvée "Original" mais encore + aromatique et séduisant. Très belle longueur et des arômes de fruits blancs et fruits jaunes couplés à des notes douces de caramel et vanille. Le bois amène un petit côté piquant typé clou de girofle. Vieilli en fûts de chêne blanc américain.

The Bottle: Squat and easy to pick out in a lineup if you know what you're looking for. It's not may favorite, if I'm honest. The white and "parchment" colors don't seem to really go together, and there are a lot of different fonts and faces at play here. Normally, that isn't something that I would even notice, but with this one I do for some reason. There's a little bit about the rum on the back label, but nothing as in-depth as you'd find on a Plantation expression. In the Glass: Bronze with a nice viscosity. On the Nose: This is where you first start to forget about the design of the bottle... It's 43%abv but there is absolutely no harshness, it has a very appealing brown sugar and leather thing going for it with just a touch of something savory on the end. I think that it has something to do with being a mix of sugarcane and molasses distillate, but there's definitely something in there beyond "sweet" that I can't quite put my finger on. It's good, whatever it is. Taste: It arrives with a sweet punch, but that very quickly dries out. The development and finish is where the complexity comes in and there are distinct bitter notes on it. Not coffee-bitter, more like an "astringency" kind of bitter. It isn't off-putting, it's just different. So this one just doesn't do it for me as a sipper. That odd bitterness really sticks to your tongue after a few sips and the sweet arrival from further sips aren't strong enough to tamp it down. I think that this one would be more at-home in cocktail that calls for a solid darker rum(it needs some friends to help sing the harmony). All-this-being-said, I'm still looking forward to try one of the "Forgotten Cask" offerings to see how this distillery does at a higher tier.