Foursquare - Equipoise - 14 years old - Ex-Bourbon and Ex-Calvados - 61%
The Foursquare Rum Distillery (and Heritage Park ) is located in the south of Barbados . It is owned by the Seale family , who have had 5 generations of rum-making expertise since 1820. It is one of the oldest trading houses in Barbados. At the time, Reginald Leon Seale, like other merchants, was prohibited from selling rum directly to consumers under the Barbados Excise Act. His solution was to establish a distribution business in Bridgetown in the early 1900s: this was the birth of the RL Seale brand. From 1962 to 1993, the ESA Field and Alleyne Arthur rums, including Old Brigand, Taylor's Falernum and Doorly's, completed 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 purchased a sugar mill whose oldest building, dating back to 1636, was decrepit. Their 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 (usually 112 barrels) and aged tropically. The rums are matured in small ex-Bourbon American white oak casks in huge open-sided warehouses, most of which come from a distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee.
Equipoise is part of the distillery's Exceptional Casks series. It is a blend of old rums, distilled in pot stills and columns. The rum ages for 14 years in ex-Bourbon and ex-Calvados casks .
