Foursquare Redoutable 2006 Barbados 61% vol. 0,7l ecs Rum

The Foursquare Distillery, owned by the Seale family, can trace its roots on 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, under the Barbados Consumer Act Reginald Leon Seale, like other merchants, was prohibited from selling rum directly to consumers. His way of dealing with this 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 take 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 was the case until 1995, when, under the then leadership of Sir David Seale, the company decided to buy a sugar factory whose oldest building dates from 1636 and was largely in ruins. 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 around, complete with a state-of-the-art bottling facility on site. The distillery has a three-column 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 aged tropically. 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.