Foursquare - Magisterium - 16 years old - 58%
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 most old trading houses of 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 company in Bridgetown in the early 1900s: this was the birth of the RL Seale brand. From 1962 to 1993, ESA Field and Alleyne Arthur rums, including Old Brigand, Taylor's Falernum and Doorly's complete 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 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 pot 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 oak barrels ex-Bourbon American white in huge open-sided warehouses, most of which comes from a distillery in Lynchburg, Tennessee.
Magisterium is a blend of rums aged in ex-Bourbon and ex-Sherry casks. They were distilled in copper pot stills and double columns and aged for 16 years .
