Foursquare - Cask Strength 2010 - 60%
The Foursquare Rum Distillery (and Heritage Park ) is located in southern Barbados . It belongs to the Seale family , whose 5 generations of rum-making expertise have passed since 1820. It is one of the oldest trading houses in Barbados. At the time, Reginald Leon Seale, like other traders, was prohibited from selling rum directly to consumers under Barbados' excise duty law. His solution was to establish a distribution business in Bridgetown in the early 1900s and the RL Seale brand was born. From 1962 to 1993, ESA Field and Alleyne Arthur rums, including Old Brigand, Taylor's Falernum and Doorly's, complemented the company's portfolio. In order to effectively consolidate the multiple brands, it was decided that ESA Field and Old Brigand would focus on the local market, where they had always done well, while Doorly would become an export brand. In 1995, under the influence of Sir David Seale, the family bought a sugar factory whose oldest building dating from 1636 was decrepit. His intuition paid off and this site became Foursquare Distillery. Today, the distillery has a three-column still that it uses for lighter rums and a modern copper still for more complex rums, which are still distilled from fermented molasses in small batches ( typically 112 barrels) and tropically aged. The rums are aged in small ex-Bourbon American white oak barrels in huge open-walled warehouses, most of which come from a distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee.
Foursquare's 2010 Cask Strength is part of the distillery's Exceptional Cask series. It is a blend of pot still and column distilled rums . It is aged for 12 years in Bourbon barrels in Barbados, then bottled Brut de Fût at 60%.
