X Foursquare Premise 10y Barbados 2018 46% vol. 0,7l Rum

The Premise matures for 3 years in ex-bourbon barrels, then for another 7 years in former sherry casks from Jerez

The Foursquare Distillery, owned by the Seale family, can trace its roots in Barbados back to the 1650s and can look back on five generations of rum making. However, the Foursquare brand was not founded until much later. While the family could claim one of Barbados' oldest trading houses, it was illegal for Reginald Leon Seale, like other merchants, to sell rum directly to consumers under the Barbados Consumer Act. His approach to this issue was to found a distribution company in Bridgetown in the early 1900s - and that was the birth of the R. L. Seale brand. R. L. Seale was not the only trader to take this approach, but he was one of the few successful ones. This prosperity created the opportunity for expansion, and from 1962 to 1993 the rum portfolios of ESA Field and Alleyne Arthur, including Old Brigand, Taylor's Falernum and Doorly's, were acquired. In order to consolidate the various brands effectively, it was decided that ESA Field and Old Brigand would focus on the local market, where they had always performed well, while Doorly's would become an export brand.

This was the case until 1995, when the company, then under the leadership of Sir David Seale, bet on buying a sugar factory whose oldest building dates back to 1636 and was largely derelict. However, his intuition paid off, and this site became the Foursquare Distillery. Today it is considered one of the most efficient and modern rum distilleries there is, complete with a state-of-the-art bottling facility on site. The distillery has a three-column still, which it uses for lighter rums, and a modern pot still, which is used for heavier rums. Distillation is from fermented molasses in small batches (usually 112 barrels) and then tropically aged. The rums are matured in small American white oak ex-bourbon barrels in huge open warehouses, most of which come from an unnamed (but famous) distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee.