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Foursquare 2004 Velier 14 Year Old Patrimonio

Lot: 8636

Foursquare 2004 Velier 14 Year Old Patrimonio

Winning Bid: £145

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Foursquare
Age: 
14 year old
Vintage: 
2004
Region: 
Barbados
Bottler: 
Velier
Cask Type: 
see lot description
Bottled Strength: 
58%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
Production method: 
pot & column stills
Base: 
molasses
product Details

Foursquare 2004 Velier 14 Year Old Patrimonio

The Foursquare rum distillery is owned by R.L. Seale & Co, a family company with a traceable history of rum making in Barbados dating back to 1820. The modern company dates to the 1920s, when Reginald Leon Seale set up a distribution business in the island’s capital, Bridgetown. The company’s success brought expansion, and through the latter half of the 20th century it acquired brands such as ESA Fields and Doorly’s for its portfolio. In 1995 they opened the Foursquare distillery, converting an abandoned sugar factory in the Saint Philip parish. Operating as double retort pot still and a three-column continuous still, its first spirit was produced in 1996. Foursquare produces Single Blended rum, combining its pot and column distillate both before and after being barrelled, and under the direction of Sir David Seale and his son, Richard, has become one of the most revered producers in the world.

Patrimonio is part of the distillery's collaboration with Italian distributor, Velier. It  is a vatting of ex-bourbon casks and sherry-finished ex-bourbon casks, all matured 14 years in the tropics. Bottled in February 2019 as one of 6000 bottles. 

Velier was founded by Casimir Chaix in Genoa in 1947 as a wine and spirits importer and distributor. By the 1980s they were still a small family-company with less than ten staff. This all changed in 1986 when it was purchased by Luca Gargano, a former brand ambassador for Saint James who was at the time still in his twenties. Under his direction, they selected their first single cask whiskies in 1992, and their first rum in 1996. In the decades that followed, Velier have gone on to become one of the most collectible brands in the industry, and Gargano has positioned them as the one of the foremost authorities and bottlers of rum anywhere in the world.

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