pkingmartin
Foursquare Nobiliary
Aged Rum — Barbados
Reviewed
July 13, 2021 (edited September 24, 2021)
The nose lures you in with a rich and decadent butterscotch pudding followed by rum notes of bananas foster, coconut macaroons, and fresh cut pineapple that then drifts to bourbon notes of cherry pie filling, orange peel, chocolate followed by spices of cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, leather and old polished mahogany with high ethanol burn.
The taste is a continuation of those sweets on the nose with a velvety rich mouthfeel starting with grilled pineapple, coconut, butterscotch pudding, bananas foster then cherries and oranges, cloves, nutmeg, pepper, leather and old polished mahogany with high ethanol burn.
This finishes long with boozy pineapple upside down cake with bourbon spiked frosting, sweetened coconut flakes, maraschino cherries, orange, ginger, leather, and old polished mahogany that lingers for minutes.
This is a high octane rum that brings in those sweet dark rum flavors and marries them together with bourbon notes that taste old, bold, balanced and complex. I could nose and taste this for hours without being bored as the bourbon and rum notes create this rich, decadent, and incredibly unique experience akin to eating a Michelin star version of bananas foster with a side of coconut macaroons while sipping a glass of well-crafted older bourbon. I highly recommend this for any whiskey or rum drinker as this is just a masterpiece that could compete with spirits two to three times its price and easily beat them.
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@Bourbon_Obsessed_Lexington Ha, my pleasure, and thanks. It's the evidence of my misspent youth ... and middle age 😁
@cascode you sir are a bottomless well of uncanny spirits knowledge. How you do it I will never know but bravo and thank you for your priceless contributions here!
@cascode Awesome! Thank you. This is exactly the information I need to get started. Saving these names to reference once I start seriously looking for some quality rum.
@ctbeck11 Velier is one of the major independent rum bottlers and they have contracts with the owner of Hampden Estate and Long Pond. Compagnie des Indes is another reliable independent rum bottler who release all sorts of interesting things at fair prices. Cadenheads (owned by Springbank) also bottle some rum and Plantation has a range of vintage rum it bottles in parallel to their core range. The vintages I've had have not been sweetened. The Plantation Xaymaca Special Dry is a reasonably priced entry to the funky side of rum.
@cascode I’ll need to explore some independent bottlings. I never connected in my mind that rums would be independently bottled like whiskies are.
@PBMichiganWolverine Caroni was/is unique. The closest you will get in modern high-ester rum with a dry profile would be Worthy Park, Hampden and Long Pond. Foursquare is friendlier, sweeter and on the fringes of that ballpark. El Dorado can have its funky hogo moments as well.
@cascode to me, the 2 Caroni’s I’ve had were on par with my favorite distillery: Springbank. Is there a modern , affordable version of Caroni ?
@ctbeck11 Foursquare are not exactly the modern Caroni, but they are the next best thing. The only other rums I bother to buy now are independent bottlings. The SMWS (of all things) have been dabbling in rum recently with very good results. There was a 19 year old Hampden release from them recently that was stellar.
@PBMichiganWolverine I’ve heard of that one, but haven’t tried it yet. Once I work through a bunch of my cheap bottles of rum, I’m probably only going to stock a few, and most of them will be Foursquare products.
@pkingmartin @LiquorLonghorn I’m especially curious to see how this compares to Caroni. I’ve had maybe 2 Caroni’s previously and I loved them. There was also a Barrell rum ( sent gracious by @jonwilkinson7309 ) that was amazing. Out of my wee rum experience, I had ranked the two Caroni’s as best, followed by the Barrell.
@pkingmartin yeah—absolutely , thank you ! Save me a pour for our next exchange !
@PBMichiganWolverine That sounds delicious! I can send you a sample of Nobiliary to compare it to. It’s pricy but well worth it.
@LiquorLonghorn Thanks, I’ll need to try the rest of their bottles. I’m a huge fan now.
@Ctrexman I think you’ll really like it. I never thought I’d like rum until Foursquare.
@PBMichiganWolverine Madeira and bourbon. I have the same one. Excellent choice!
@ctbeck11 I just ordered the exceptional cask Sagacity…seemed reasonable at approx $65. Twelve years old, port and bourbon cask I think
Love love love Foursquare! Great review. I’m nursing a bottle too, and I recently finished the Detente, which was superb.
Y'all are killin me with the Foursquare, I have to break down and try one. I wasnt as enamoured with Doorly12 as most though
@PBMichiganWolverine It’s worth it. The yearly Exceptional Cask releases are slightly cheaper and also excellent. Those can usually be had for just under $100.
@ctbeck11 @pkingmartin wow...$125 for rum? I thought only Caroni went that high.
Probably my favorite rum so far. It’s fantastic.