Foursquare 2010 Cask Strength + Equiano Rum
After a long time, hot news from the world-famous Foursquare distillery comes to us again. As we well know, every bite is bottled without added sugar, colouring or flavouring.
Foursquare 2010 Cask Strength has a high alcohol content, up to 60%. The traditional aroma remains as well, where you'll discover vanilla, tropical fruit, mango, grilled pineapple, caramel, acetone and licorice. This is the 21st release (Mark XXI) of the Exceptional Cask Selection limited series.
This excellent blended rum is made from a blend of several Twin Column and Double Copper Retort Pot Still rums and aged for 12 years in ex-bourbon barrels. An estimated 30,000 were produced!
Colour: amber with brown-ruby highlights
Nose: pineapple, bananas, caramel, liquorice, acetone
Taste: dry, smooth, caramel, nuts, oak, chocolate, vanilla
Finish: long, warming, complex, spices, wood, tropical fruits
Equiano is a unique Afro-Caribbean unsweetened molasses rum. This blend is mixed with molasses from Gray's distilleries on the African island of Mauritius and Foursquare on the island of Barbados.
Rum is first aged in Mauritius for 10 years in Limousin French oak and ex-cognac barrels. They are then transported to Barbados, where they are mixed with rum, which has been aged for at least 8 years in ex-bourbon barrels in Barbados.
Rum is named after the Nigerian writer Olaudah Equiano, who was a prominent aboliconist, a traveler, and one of the first slave freedom fighters in Africa. By trading in rum, Olaudah redeemed himself from slavery and could devote himself to the slave liberation movement. This is one of the reasons why the rum company (Equiano Rum Co) devotes a certain percentage of its profits to promoting equality.
Equiano is exclusively mixed and bottled at Foursquare Distillery in Barbados.
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