Foursquare Nobiliary Barbados 14y cask strength 62 % vol. 0,7l ecs Rum

 

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, Barbados consumer law prohibited Reginald Leon Seale, like other merchants, from selling rum directly to consumers. His response 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 merchant to start this approach, but he was one of the few successful ones. This prosperity made expansion possible, and from 1962 to 1993 the rum portfolios of ESA Field and Alleyne Arthur, including Old Brigand, Taylor's Falernum and D oorly'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 D oorly's would become an export brand.

This remained the case until 1995, when the company, under the then leadership of Sir David Seale, invested in the purchase of a sugar mill, whose oldest building dates back to 1636 and was largely derelict. His intuition, however, paid off, and this site became the Foursquare Distillery. Today it is regarded as one of the most efficient and modern rum distilleries of all, 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 tropical aging. 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.