Foursquare 2006, 15 years, Barbados edition No. 15
The Foursquare distillery in Barbados was founded by the Seale family in the mid-1990s. The Seales, having bottled rum in Barbados for over five generations, own a string of traditional brands which now feature Foursquare rum as their main component.
Barbados 2006 was bottled at cask strength at 61,5%. This 15-year-old rum spent 14 years in the tropics and in the American White Oak & Ex-Bourbon cask. Only 276 bottles of this exciting rum.
Barbados 2006 edition no. 15
Region: Barbados
Distillery: Foursquare
Age: 15
Distillation: 10-2006
Bottled: 02-2022
Cask no: 9
Cask type: 14 years American White Oak & Ex-Bourbon
Still type: Column/Pot
Maturation: 14 years in the tropics
ABV 61,5%
Vol. 700 ml
No bottles: 276
Tasting Notes:
Aged 14 years in the tropics, so I suppose this would qualify as 'tropical aging'. Colour: amber. Nose: it's very much on caramel and cane syrup, flambéed bananas, roasted peanuts, and, well, ethanol. That's normal for this strength. With water: these herbs, pressed sugarcane, dried pear, coconut, gorse... Mouth (neat): very fresh, strongly on blood oranges, clemencello (limoncello made with clementines), candied citron... With water: damp earth, one olive, liquorice wood. Finish: long, smooth, with more coconut, more on the 'column' side than the 'pot still' side. The joys of single blends... Comments: these magnificent citrus flavours in the mouth make one want to savour this baby without water, but that could become lethal.
Note: SGP:651 - 89 points.
Source: whiskyfun.com
This is an intensely flavored rum that offers up aromas of citrus, oranges in particular, toffee, with notes of milk chocolate and caramel.
