JimmyRum ‘Barbados’

Description

FOURSQUARE + AUSTRALIA = JIMMYRUM! Boom! A blend of 3 different Foursquare rums uniquely blended and independently bottled in Australia by JimmyRum. We are totally psyched to present from Victoria’s first dedicated craft rum distillery (and Rum Tribe member!) the JimmyRum ‘Barbados’.

‘Barbados’ is an independent bottling of 3 different aged rums from none other than powerhouse distillery – Foursquare. Yep – you heard right. The JimmyRum ‘Barbados’ is a blend of three, five and eight year old Foursquare rums with zero, zip, nada sugar, colouring or chill-filtering. Each bottle does, however, come with a liberal dose of funky tropical-aged goodness. This rum was blended and created by JimmyRum and cannot be found elsewhere in the world.

JimmyRum understands the value of pure, unadulterated rum. They love it so much, they set out and became the first dedicated craft rum distillery in Victoria. JimmyRum is a young distillery and have lots of their own rum currently maturing in barrels (that we are sure we will see as Rum Tribe releases in the future) and whilst waiting for their rums to age into existence, Owner and Head Distiller, James McPherson (aka JimmyRum) has decided independent bottling of some world class rums is what they need to pass the time.

So this month were offering a fantastic rum from a celebrated distillery that we think is exceptional value and well worth a space on your rum shelf, plus we’re featuring a fellow Tribe member to boot! That’s gotta be a win for everyone!

Created to be best enjoyed neat or over ice, it has been crafted to be a smooth premium sipping rum.

Our Tasting Notes

Colour: Pale Yellow

Nose: That Foursquare funk is all over this with lipstick-ey banana and pineapple. There’s also a noticeable cookie-dough note (choc-chip I think)

Palate: fairly sharp initially – lots of pineapple and passionfruit notes shock, but fade in a moment to a nice warm buzz. All the while there is a coconut creme-brulee thing going on there too!

Finish: Medium length, warming but not pepper-spicy, fruits fade to notes of bread pudding

You’ll know it’s Foursquare as soon as you pop the cork. It’s got ‘that’ smell. Textbook funk and I would love to try it at 50%-ish! But that’s a first world problem – this is truly ‘easy-drinking’ rum – and the upside of the 40% is you can have a few more! So who’s complaining? – NOT ME! Nice one, Jimmy!

From JimmyRum

We are the first dedicated craft rum distillery in Victoria. We are on a mission to show you what rum can be with our Australian crafted distinctive and delicious rums. We think rum has been misunderstood for far too long and we want to share with you how diverse, unique, and exciting rum can be.

Why do we do it? We live, breath and make rum, why should JimmyRum import someone else’s? Pretty simple really, we are here to shout about rum more than we are here to shout about JimmyRum, by importing we get to bring in different premium rums and in different regional styles. Think Funky Jamaican, smooth barrel finished Mauritian or the herbaceous French rums of Martinique.

Barbados helps us to show you a Bajan style of rum, soft, gentle and easy drinking. It also helps us show you what an aged rum can taste like, with our specific blend of 3, 5 and year old rums from the Foursquare Distillery in Barbados we get to showcase a rum style that will take us 10-12 years to produce.

Barbados, is a great entry into sipping premium rum, with a natural sweetness (no added sugar) combined with hints of butter and caramel it slides down. We are not afraid to mix it, with it being mixed in a Cuba Libre (think rum n coke, but only with a dash of cola and lime) or all the way out to one of our bar specialties with a watermelon sour…I’m still getting over the mental scars of one of our beautiful sipping rums sitting in a pink fluffy cocktail, but you know what, it works! Feel free to try it your way, you’ve paid for it. Try it with a dash of soda, over a big ice block or even put it in your old fashioned. Enjoy!