Foursquare 15 Year Old 2009 Cask #8 - Bedford Park Rum | 700ML

Rum: Foursquare 15 Year Old 2009 Cask #8 - Bedford Park Rum | 700ML Hailing from the ever-fantastic Foursquare in Barbados, this rum joins the independent Bedford Park collection. This 16-year-old rum was distilled in 2009 and moved to Europe in 2018, where it remained for the rest of its 15-year maturation in a single bourbon barrel. Order from the Largest & Most Trusted Premium Spirits Marketplace! Featured in ROLLING STONE MEN'S JOURNAL US WEEKLY ALL ORDERS PLACED ARE GUARANTEED and WILL NOT be cancelled like with other retailers. Many other small liquor store sites will end up cancelling your order due to the high demand and unavailability. Size: 700ML Proof: 121.6 (60.8%ABV) Origin: Barbados Distillery: Foursquare Hailing from the ever-fantastic Foursquare in Barbados, this rum joins the independent Bedford Park collection. This 16-year-old rum was distilled in 2009 and moved to Europe in 2018, where it remained for the rest of its 15-year maturation in a single bourbon barrel. Foursquare 15 Year Old 2009 Cask #8 - Bedford Park Rum | 700ML Tasting Notes Nose: Rich vanilla, caramel, ripe tropical fruit, toasted oak, coconut, and soft baking spices. Hints of banana and dried fruit add depth. Palate: Full and silky, with caramel, vanilla, baked tropical fruit, coconut, toasted oak, and cinnamon. A subtle molasses richness develops alongside the mature wood character. Finish: Long and warming, with lingering vanilla, caramel, tropical fruit, toasted oak, coconut, and gentle spice. Distillery Information The owners of Foursquare Distillery, the Seale family, can trace its roots on Barbados back to the 1650s, and can reference five generations of rum-making expertise dating back to 1820. The establishment of the Foursquare brand, however, came much later. While the family could lay claim to one of Barbados’ oldest trading houses, Reginald Leon Seale was prohibited, like other traders, from selling rum directly to consumers under the Barbados Excise Law. His method around this issue was to establish a distribution business in Bridgetown in the early 1900s - and this was the birth of the R. L. Seale brand. R. L. Seale was not the only trader who took this course of action, but he was one of the very few successful ones. This prosperity provided the opportunity for expansion, and from 1962 to 1993, the rum portfolios of ESA Field and Alleyne Arthur, including Old Brigand, Taylor's Falernum and Doorly's were acquired. In order for the multiple brands to be effectively consolidated, a decision was made that ESA Field and Old Brigand would focus on the local market, where they had always done well, while Doorly's would become an export brand This was the state of affairs until 1995 when the company, then led by Sir David Seale, gambled on the purchase of a sugar factory whose oldest building dates back to 1636 and was mostly decrepit. His intuition paid off, however, and that site became Foursquare Distillery, Now, it stands as one of the most efficient and modern rum distilleries around, complete with a state-of-the-art bottling plant on site. The distillery has a three-column vacuum still it uses for lighter rums and a modern pot still for heavier rums, which are always distilled from fermented molasses in small batches (usually 112 barrels) and tropically aged.