Dead Reckoning Barbados PX

Description

Who wished for a fantastic FOURSQUARE rum for Christmas? Who’s letter to Santa includes the words ‘DEAD RECKONING? Have you been good this year? Well SIT DOWN and pull up a GLASS or TWO and BUCKLE UP!

The Rum Tribe have DELIVERED! Nothing less than two of the hottest rum brands around – FOURSQUARE and DEAD RECKONING combining forces in the one bottle…Dead Reckoning Barbados PX!

The Dead Reckoning Barbados PX is 10 year old Single Cask. A blend of pot and column distilled Foursquare rums, tropically aged for 8 years in Barbados in an ex-bourdon cask, then brought to Adelaide and given 12 months in a 40 year old Spanish Pedro Rodriguez Pedro Ximénez cask and then yet another year in the dry heat of Adelaide resting in an old ex Makers-mark bourbon cask before being bottled at 50%abv. Strictly limited – but don’t sweat – we’ve got first dibs!

Now we know you’ve all been wanting Foursquare so we’ve saved this one for our final rum of the year – and we know you are going to LOVE it. We’re thrilled to be offering this rum just as Richard Seale and Foursquare have taken out the honours for Rum Producer of the Year at the 2024 International Wine and Spirits Competition (IWSC).

But Foursquare is no stranger to this award. In fact, this year’s IWSC Rum Producer of the Year award makes an incredible combined total of 11 ‘Rum Producer of the Year’ awards from two of the world’s most respected and vaunted alcohol competitions – the IWSC and the ISC (International Spirits Challenge) since 2016. Richard Seale and Foursquare are arguably the world’s best rum producers, period.

Justin Boseley’s Dead Reckoning are Australia’s first Indy rum bottlers and to say the brand has piqued the interest of Australia’s (and the worlds) rum drinkers is laconic Aussie dryness at its best! And it’s just that sort of dryness – well dry ageing anyway – that seems to give all of Justin’s rums a little bit of ‘X-factor’ (as well as bumping up the ABV in the casks during maturation!). This ‘dry ageing’ that Justin carries out in specially selected finishing casks never fails to produce incredible rums with body, complexity and nuance.  This month’s Barbados PX is no exception.

International markets are SCREAMING for Dead Reckoning after the many glowing write-ups by renowned international reviewers like ‘the Fat Rum Pirate’ and Singapore’s ’88 Bamboo’. We’re pretty lucky to have ‘direct to the source access’ to this brand that brings the very best rums from all around the world into the country.

Our Tasting Notes

Nose: Foursquare funk at it’s finest here! Subtle notes of overripe fruit salad sit over wafts of fragrant flowering jasmine, biscuit spice and just a touch of polythene glue sweetness.

Palate: Lovely and mouth-coatingly oily at first with huge red fruits and plum pudding notes (how seasonal J), choc-liquorice bullets and salted caramel.

Finish: The sweet and oily mouthfeel of the palate evolves into quite a crisp and clean spirit (the column still component in action I’ll wager). Not lacking in ‘stick to your teethiness’ though – this just lasts and lasts with spiced fruit mince, rich espresso crema, and dark chocolate.

So BIG, so round, so complex and oh so very satisfying. In fact it’s so big, it’s almost a journey in every pour. The sticky sweet-to-dry evolution on the palate, the fruits and wafts of flowering vines mixing with those other glue-like esters that somehow make it better. So many flavours and smells to discover here – it’s just so pleasant to sit on a big pour and contemplate the journey this rum has had before ending up in your glass.