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HISTORY
Despite being one of the youngest distilleries in the Caribbean, Foursquare has already come a long way.
The Seale family, so important to the history of rum in Barbados over the last hundred years, began to make its mark with Réginald Léon Seale: at the age of thirteen he was an apprentice blender under his father, and after 43 years he set up R. L. Seale & Co. Limited, starting his own business as a blender, bottler and trader.
His main brand is R.L.Seale, made from rum from the West Indies Rum Refinery and the Barbados Rum Distillery. The business continued with the arrival of his son Reginald Clarence in 1946, and grandson David in 1962.
In 1992 David's son Richard joined the business and in 1993 competitor Alleyne Arthur's, owner of Doorly's, Old Brigand and other brands, was acquired.
Foursquare Distillery is located on the former site of the Foursquare Plantation and Sugar Mill, which operated from 1636 to 1984. Designed in 1996 by an Italian company, Green Engineering, it is considered one of the most advanced distilleries in the world.
PRODUCTION METHODS
CO-BOTTLINGS
The partnership between Richard Seale and Luca Gargano was born out of a community of intentions and visions, cemented by an identical disdain for the colonial spirit, in an intellectual harmony that led to co-bottling, thanks to which the distillery was recently elected the best in the world.
The co-bottling began with the selection of Foursquare 2006: bottled in 2016, aged in a tropical climate, 3 years in ex-bourbon barrels and 7 years in ex-cognac oak casks, for a total of 2400 bottles.
After the first release, Richard and Luca selected other single blended wines that have become collectors' items: we offer them here in a unique vertical tasting not to be missed.
