Foursquare 2008, 12 years, Barbados edition No. 5
12-year-old Barbados 2008, is the fifth of our Foursquare family. The effect of tropical ageing is evident, with 8 years spent by this rum in the Caribbean. This spirit is the result of pot and column distillation and was matured in an Ex-Bourbon cask.
Barbados 2008 edition no. 5
Region: Barbados
Distillery: Foursquare
Age: 12
Distillation: 05-2008
Bottled: 04-2021
Cask no: 6
Cask type: Ex-Bourbon
Still type: Column/Pot
Maturation: 8 years in the tropics
ABV 60,3%
Vol. 700 ml
No bottles: 235
Tasting Notes:
“Colour: gold. Nose: some action here, this is completely different, sour, acetic, with some cheese, porridge, sour wines, something clearly bacterial. No muck or dunder though, this is more akin to rotting strawberries. Not obligatorily bad news, mind you, let's see… With water: even more of all that. Fondue with mushrooms, weissbeer, a drop of miso... Mouth (neat): so clearly different! Pure pot still Foursquare, perhaps? It is much greasier, phenolic, salty, fermentary, and indeed on Swiss cheese. I'm thinking appenzeller, or perhaps gorgonzola. With water: seems to find the road, with more sultanas, Muscovado sugar, molasses, milk chocolate, maple syrup… Finish: rather long, this time with some coffee liqueur and drops of crazier white rum. Comments: was it the spirit? Was it the cask? What's sure is that this is different and, in my book, excellent. We want more.”
Note: 89 points
Source: whiskyfun.com
