Bardstown Bourbon Company Foursquare Barbados Rum Collaborative Series 750ml

USA : KENTUCKY : BARDSTOWN

90% Indiana Rye (7yr) | 10% Tennessee Bourbon (17yr) | Foursquare Rum Barrel Finish

FULL-BODIED, COCOA NIBS, BANANA SPLIT, RYE SPICE, FIG JAM, CHARRED OAK, TOFFEE

Bardstown Bourbon Company's Collaborative Series has become one of whiskey's most interesting ongoing experiments, and the Foursquare edition is where the concept peaked. The blend: 90% seven-year Indiana rye (51% rye mash bill) and 10% seventeen-year Tennessee bourbon, then handed off to Foursquare Distillery in Barbados for twenty-three months in ex-rum casks. Foursquare, run by master blender Richard Seale, makes traditional Bajan rum — no additives, no added sugar — and those clean, complex barrels impart depth without sugaring the whiskey into softness.

The rye spine holds. At 107 proof, this remains a whiskey first: plantain, cocoa nibs, and banana arrive from the rum cask, but the rye spice cuts through throughout. Whisky Advocate scored it 94 points and named it #9 in their Top 20 Whiskeys of 2023, calling it a whiskey that "leaps out of the glass" with "chocolate croissant, cigar box, and banana split aromas" and a long finish of "chocolate malt, cinnamon candies, and toffee, fading to charred oak and maple syrup." Drinkhacker gave it an A — "a near-perfect marriage" of rum and whiskey traditions.

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