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R. L. Seale's Finest 10 Yr Old Rum
750mlExpert Pick
$29.99
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*Price, vintage and availability may vary by store.
*Price, vintage and availability may vary by store.
Product Highlights
Barbados- Fine rum, aged in oak barrels for a minimum of ten years. Amazingly smooth and well rounded butternut taste with traces of roasted almonds, oak and vanilla that linger on the palate. This rum is best enjoyed sipped neat or on the rocks.
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Producer Story
The Foursquare Rum Distillery in St. Philip, Barbados, is one of the oldest remaining sugar plantations and rum distilleries – dating back to 1636 – on this island famous for rum. R.L. Seale and Co. Ltd., operator of the distillery, restored the site and now produces several spirits using state-of-the-art equipment within the historic site. Among the spirits distilled here is R. L. Seale's 10 Year Old Rum. The rum’s distinctive, droopy-necked bottle is modeled on the leather flasks sailors once used to tote their daily allotment of rum.
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Rum, distilled from sugar cane or its byproducts, is synonymous with the island life. Sugar cane and rum production spread throughout the Caribbean after 1493, when Christopher Columbus brought sugar cane cuttings to the region. The plant was quick to flourish in the heat and humidity of the Caribbean region.
By the 1600s, island-made rums were in demand in England and its colonies. Part of the drink’s popularity is attributed to the Royal Navy, which gave its sailors daily rations of rum. That tradition lasted more than 300 years, until 1970.