Foursquare Convocation (62%)

This is the 28th release in Foursquare's Exceptional Cask Selection from Barbados. Convocation combines pot- and column-distilled rum aged for 14 years in a combination of bourbon and Madeira casks. More precisely, it consists of one 14-year-old bourbon cask, one 14-year-old Madeira cask and a third double-aged cask that spent its first 10 years in bourbon and its last 4 years in Madeira. The three were blended and bottled at 62% ABV. The nose is full and warming with dark stone fruits, plums, cherries, raisins and prunes, oak and all-spice, cardamom and black pepper, then vanilla, banana and coconut. The palate is full and intense with sweetness from the Madeira cask, dark fruit, spicy oak and warming alcohol, papaya, vanilla and a little black pepper. The finish feels endless, with dark fruit, leather, oak, caramel and vanilla.