$277
A 16 year old single cask Foursquare from Duncan Taylor under the Quarterdeck label, fruity and spice-led with brown sugar and a floral lift, a dry Barbados rum bottled at cask strength, 50.2 percent.
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Duncan Taylor, the Scottish whisky house, has bottled a single 2005 cask of Foursquare for its Quarterdeck rum line, drawing on the Barbados distillery celebrated for its strict no-additives ethos. Bottled at 50.2 percent, it presents a single-cask snapshot of Foursquare at 16 years.
The nose opens on fruit, sweet brown sugar and spice with an alcoholic lift, and the palate keeps that brown-sugar sweetness alongside spice and a floral note. The finish turns nutty over brown sugar with a solventy edge that points to the cask strength. Distilled from molasses on pot and column stills and matured in ex-bourbon oak, this is dry and unsweetened in the authentic island-aged tradition. Reviewers note an immediate warmth and a firm spice punch, a robust and honest Barbados single cask rather than a soft, rounded blend.
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