It’s been some time since a submit graced these pages……virtually 12 months to the day. I’ve been lively elsewhere in additional bitesize items, however life has thrown many curveballs my means…..and although I doubt that you just’re curious about these….hopefully you may be on this.
Foursquare Fidelitas is the newest “black bottle” launch, fermented, distilled, matured and bottled at Foursquare Rum Distillery, distributed globally (in very small portions) by Velier.
I’ve written extensively about Foursquare Rum Distillery, so in case you are unfamiliar, please click on this hyperlink.
Foursquare Fidelitas – Single Blended Rum – 55% abv – 0g/l components
“Fidelitas” translated from Latin is Faithfulness as you’ll probably know…….”you must have a primary grasp of Latin if you happen to’re working in Curry’s” (for the Partridge followers).
The Rum itself is the oldest that we now have seen bottled by Foursquare Rum Distillery thus far at 20 years outdated. There have been older releases bottled by independents with a most of 8 years on the distillery, however that is the total beans, absolutely distillery matured actual deal. So a primary by way of age, but additionally a primary by way of the cask used for the secondary maturation……ex-Marsala wine casks. So the total run down is 20 years whole distillery age. 19 years in ex-bourbon, 1 yr in ex-Marsala. Distilled 2004 – Bottled January 2025 with a full launch of 2160 bottles. This gained’t be your first rodeo so that you’ll know that this can show extremely arduous to find and buy…..we’re all aware of that by now. At this time’s evaluate involves you by way of very sort samples despatched by Foursquare Rum Distillery’s man within the UK, Peter Holland.
Tasting Notes
Nostril: Simply take a look at these large oily droplets on the aspect of the glass….over the course of a number of minutes they drip like silky, darkish chocolate ganache again all the way down to the bowl of gorgeous mahogany liquid. Upon first pouring, dried fruits and woody hedgerow berries aplenty. Just a little time within the glass sees a extra earthy and woody character stand up. Cedar cigar tube lining. Liquorice root. Nutty. Damp wooden into varnish into furnishings polish into outdated Neisson Rhum…….that size of time within the barrel refusing to let go and pulling itself again to the highest. Leather-based turns into cigar leaf, turns into dusty outdated books and waxy main faculty desks. The fruit then pops again out with tart purple currants and blackberries, heaps of cherries. Sweetness follows with sugared almonds, marshmallow and toffee pennies. Frivolously blowing into the glass sees new notes of orange bitters. Phenomenal.
Mouth: It has a stunning, mild alcohol prickle on the center of your tongue as that silky, oily liquid coats each little bit of your tongue. It’s clinging on and refusing to let go. Sharp berries on the tip of your tongue. Heat spiced fruit cake straight out of the oven…..as heat as you dare eat it. Candied citrus peel. Toffee pennies. Chocolate coated nuts and raisins. Nougat. Buttery Macadamia nuts. A touch of salinity. Good high quality peanut butter from “Baked in Cley” with the merest trace of the bread from the oven wherein the peanuts have been roasted. Smooth liquorice performs in opposition to liquorice root. The end, which works on, and on and on begins with a mattress of fruit cake with only a drizzle of golden syrup. This dries into gloriously peppery cigar leaf and a fading orange rind bitterness. Moist wooden and a touch of minerality. The complete factor is a pleasure to behold.
In conclusion: To expertise this Rum accurately skilled requires time…..and plenty of it. It continues to develop and develop within the glass however all the time holds give attention to the expertise. It’s a excellent, very properly aged Rum with pure pleasure at its core. It’s a testomony to ability, approach, imaginative and prescient and time…..all the time time. If you’re fortunate sufficient to discover a bottle, open it, drink it, share it and provides it the find it irresistible deserves as it’s a fantastic expertise.
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