Foursquare - Sassafras | Barbados Rum

NOSE:
Foursquare, clearly it is difficult to miss, as the hyper gourmet markers of the Barbados distillery jump out at us. It is in fact very fruity, caramelized, soft, friendly, warm… At the first glass, I found the alcohol too dominant, I retract slightly, the nose is not that aggressive even if we feel that it is quite powerful. We find a lot of apricots, cherries, bananas with a nice touch of caramel. It is really a very gourmet rum and I find in this nose some accents that one could find in the Caroni 1996 "tasting Gang", the dirty side of course.
Of course, the years will have left their mark on this rum and the oak is felt with tobacco, vanilla, slightly bitter chocolate and very heavy spices such as nutmeg and pepper. Here, it's clearly a Foursquare, it's clean, neat and smudge-free .. top of the class, right outside the teacher's desk.

TASTE:
On the palate, it is already more whipping .... It's good, super rich and greedy, even too much. But it's really powerful and I find the pleasure of tasting takes a bit of a hit. It's always so fruity, almost candied on cherries, white fruit, all coated with a thick caramel and aromas coming from the barrel. The oak is marked, but in a distinguished and elegant way with a beautiful chocolate (with caramel), spices, tobacco, vanilla and some more roasted traces ...But what a presence in the mouth, it is really gouache, patinated and the whole palate is "painted" at Foursquare.