Foursquare Sagacity 2007 Barbados 48 % vol. 0,7l Rum ecs

The Foursquare Distillery, which belongs to the Seale family, can trace its roots in Barbados back to the 1650s and has five generations of rum-making behind it. However, the Foursquare brand was not founded until much later. While the family could claim one of the oldest trading houses in Barbados, Reginald Leon Seale, like other merchants, was prohibited under the Barbados Consumer Act from selling rum directly to consumers. His approach to this issue was to establish a distribution company in Bridgetown in the early 1900s - and that marked the birth of the R. L. Seale brand. R. L. Seale was not the only merchant to introduce 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 Do orly'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, made a bid to buy a sugar factory whose oldest building dated from 1636 and was largely derelict. However, his intuition paid off, and this site became the Foursquare Distillery. Today it is regarded as one of the most efficient and modern rum distilleries around, complete with a state-of-the-art on-site bottling facility. The distillery has a three-column still, which it uses for lighter rums, and a modern pot still, which is used for heavier rums. It is distilled from fermented molasses in small batches (usually 112 barrels) and then tropically aged. The rums are matured in small American white oak ex-bourbon casks in huge open warehouses, most of which come from an unnamed (but famous) distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee.