Foursquare ECS IV Zinfandel 2004

Super beginner sipper! Can easily keep up with indelible. One of the very few extremely successful red wine finishes for me. Noticeable and intense but without dominating the rum. An incredibly cool bargain for €50 at the time. Could of course have a few % more, but it's super uncomplicated and delicious without being tiring or boring... I'd love to have a few bottles in my cellar.

Smell 10/10 Taste 9/10 Aftertaste 8/10 Image 9/10 (info about rum, bottle, carton-box, sugar free, marketing....) Total impression 9,5/10 ------------------ BTL Original price 👍👍👍 BTL II No added sugar 👍👍👍 BTL III Investment bottle 👍👍👍

Foursquare très moyen!! néanmoins gouleyant.. Je ne comprend pas la hype 🤪

This is a super fruity rum and luckily I have a bottle plus a backup one just in case. The nose is mild and fruity with vanilla and some barrel. In the back i pick up some varnish. The palate is complex, well balanced and slightly dry. Again fruity with vanilla and smoky oak. The fisish is long, lightly dry and has raisin and roasted oak. The day after the raisin and roasted oak is even stronger in the glass.

The Zinfandel Cask is really overpowering everything here. Together with an unpleasent bitterness in the end that seems to come from the cask. FS can be better...

good but due to the low ABV a lot of flavor was destroyed ....The issue price was the right price for such a reduced rum .... too bad.

Heavy on the oak and the red (forest fruits). The Zinfandel influence, which is a bold oaky red wine, is very present...but it works. Winterly spices. Sweet but not too sweet. I'm not that insulted by the "low" percentage of 43%, just start with this and everything will be alright. Different than modern Foursquare too...less glueish.

Revisiting this Foursquare classic. It is undoubtably very good rum but falls a little flat for me compared to the more recent ECS releases, it feels underweight at 43% ABV and the mouth feel muted as a result. Well balanced, vanilla and red fruit notes on the mouth but a bit light. Smooth short finish with hint of sweetness and tropical fruit. It’s good but in the new world of full strength rums it’s one you buy as it’s FS rather than on quality alone in my view

... Foursquare je destilerka z Barbadosu produkujici uzasne rumy ke kazdodennimu popijeni. Je to rum, ktery oceni zejmena rumari, kteri maji plne zuby cukru a hledaji jemny, nasladly rum plny kokosu, vanilky, cokolady a karamelu. Proste prijemne a nijak agresivni chute.

Fruity on the nose, alcohol simultaneously biting and weak, somehow diluted overall.

Bouteille à environ 65e c’est assez cher mais je l’apprécie  vraiment pas mal, à regoûter plus tard, un peu déçu par le finish qui ne marque pas vraiment, il est assez équilibré et facile à boire on passe un bon moment sans vraiment se prendre la tête ni être exceptionnel

Un Foursquare qui a été réduit car l’éthanol et le vernis à ongle sont marqués! C’est un très bon rhum de soif pour finir le repas. Le fût de Zinfandel apporte des notes de fruits rouges et de l’oxydation. Excellent pour ceux qui veulent s’initier à un Barbade accessible.

Blindverkostung: Vanille, Karamel, etwas Tabak und Leder. In den ersten 5-10 Minuten dachte ich, es handle sich um einen Spanier. Mit etwas Zeit kommen aber für mich Fouresquare typische Aromen hervor. Salzlake, Mandeln und Zimt werden mit der Zeit präsent. Am Gaumen ist dann ein leichter, stark verdünnter Rum mit 43-44% aus einer Columnstil oder ein Blend mit einem sehr großem Columnanteil auszumachen. Typische belanglose spanische Aromen… Der Abgang ist mittellang und trocken. Nicht ganz mein Fall. Ich tippe auf einen ~10 jährigen Rum der Foursquare Distillery mit 43-44%. 67 Punkte

Nose impression is average with vanilla. Taste is sweet with fresh frozen wine body and dry aftertaste. 43% wau, very full and good.

Rozhodne nejvonavejsi a jeden z tech zajimavejsich FQ co jsem pil. Ikdyz v chuti je na me dost vyvonanej a sladkej