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As noted in the Mount Gay XO revisit, that organization ceded much of the intellectual and forward-looking territory of the Bajan rum landscape to Foursquare &#; in the last ten years, correctly sensing the shifting trends and tides of the rumworld, Richard Seale bet the company’s future on aspects of rum making that had heretofore been seen as artistic, even bohemian touches best left for the snooty elite crowd of the Maltsters with their soft tweed caps, pipes, hounds, and benevolent fireside sips of some obscure Scottish tipple.  He went for a more limited and experimental approach, assisted in his thinking by collaboration with one of the Names of Rum. This has paid off handsomely, and Foursquare is now the behemoth of Barbados, punching way above its weight in terms of influence, departing brands such as Cockspur, St. Nicholas Abbey and Mount Gay as huge sellers, true, but not as real innovators with genuine street cred (WIRD is somewhat distinct, for other reasons).

Now, I make no apologies for my relative indifference to Foursquare’s current line of Doorly’s rum &#; that’s a pers