Foursquare ECS IX Empery 2004

very tasty foursquare, nice coffee & cocoa note! This is definitely daily easy sipping material. Extremely round and drinkable. The port barrel harmonizes very well with the rum without making it sweeter, but brings in nice notes of figs, citrus, tobacco and tannins. Very horny number.

Lovely smell and taste of Oak. One sip and your mouth fills up with the taste of oak. Awesome experience 😍 A very good and balanced rum with a great finish! Nose: Intense, Sherry, dried fruits, coconut, prunes, fruity, raisin, caramelized, woody, spicy, oak, vanilla, roasted nuts Mouth: complex, balanced, dry, full bodied, delicious, cognac, tobacco, sweet, caramel, dried fruits, dried dates, raisin, oak, woody, vanilla, dark chocolate, roasted nuts Finish: Medium, dry, tannins, tobacco, dried fruits, prunes, caramelized, oak(barrel), vanilla, roated nuts, dark chocolate, smoky

Despite the alcohol, the nose is sweet. Pastries and leather, varnished wood and overripe banana. A slight sourness spoils the party. The finish is average, rather varnish-like. The empty glass gives voice to the tropical fruit. A disappointing rum, with parasitic aromas we could have done without. To be retested with more oxidation. Re-tested with oxidation and all is much better, the fruit is ample and the sulphur has vanished. Three more well-deserved points.

Im kurzen Vergleichstest der Foursquare Equipoise und der Foursquare Empery. Wie es nicht anders zu erwarten war, sind beide auf dem üblich hohen Niveau. Insgesamt gesehen, brechen aber beide auch nicht nach oben aus. Mittlerweile, obwohl ich Foursquare sehr schätze, wäre mein Fazit, kennste einen, kennste alle.

Another good bottling from this company. The nose is fruity with some vanilla and chocolate topped with wonderful oak. The palate is well balanced and complex with fruit and spices, lightly sweet with a tad of chocolate, tobacco and oak. The finish is nice and long with dried fruit, vanilla and some coffee ending on a nice note of oak.

An ambivalent Foursquare. The sherry-barrel-driven nose reveals a very sweet fruitiness of prune, raisin and coconut, accompanied by the typical notes of caramel and toffee. Spices, oak and toasted hazelnuts are also perceptible in this concentrated, mellow nose. On the palate, the rum is more peachy, with notes of cognac, tobacco, toast and dried fruit that accentuate the dryness on the palate. The spices (cinnamon, chili, vanilla, pepper) become more persistent, sharpening the profile which, until the first sip, had been fairly mild. The alcohol is well integrated. The finish is rather long, with typical Foursquare markers: toasty, gourmand woodiness, roasted coffee notes, caramel, sweet fruitiness and a few hints of tobacco and cognac that flesh out the roundness of the Bajan style. The influence of cognac adds a little something extra to this friendly Foursquare, which asserts its character despite an assumed sweetness.

Loads of spices and dried fruit, wine influence is felt, as well as a tobacco note. Some sulphur if you smell the glass right after. Good but Redoubtable much more to my taste tonight.

Reichlich Holz, verbranntes Karamell und Schokolade in der Nase. Im Geschmack dann etwas alkoholisch, aber der lässt schnell nach. Wie die Nase auch kommt hier Holz, Karamell und Vanille neben Rosinen durch. Abgang mittellang.

Again a typical ECS, without fault. Very harmonious and with exactly the right sweetness.

Další parádní plnění od foursquare. Tentokrát dokončené v sudu po portském a sherry. Oboje si s tímto rumem z Barbadose perfektně sedlo, ex-port to celé zjemnil a zakulatil, zatímco ex-sherry dodá sladkost nad běznou úroveň, na kterou jsme u ecs zvyklí. Chutná mi to.

Still one of best in ECS rum line

Velice prijemny vzorek, predni pozice u me mezi foursquary

A nose a bit closed and a mouth too much on the wind. It is not unpleasant but not really to my taste.

Mir persönlich eher zu viel Sherry-Einfluss

Guter Foursquare, Alkohol nicht so gut eingebunden wie ich es gewohnt bin von den ECS. Könnte komplexer sein.