FOURSQUARE 2005 16 YEARS OLD 61% VELIER - MAGNUM SERIES #1 ELLIOTT ERWITT 1,5 L

Distilled in 2005, matured in Tropics in ex-Bourbon and ex-Sherry casks and bottled in 2021 at Foursquare distillery. This is the first edition of the Magnum Series, a special collaboration between Velier and the celebrated Magnum Photos agency. The photo on the label, is a work of world-famous photograper Elliott Erwitt, dated 1970, representing the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.

Magnum Photos, is one of the most important agency in the world, founded in Paris in 1947 by photographers Robert Capa, David Seymour, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and Will Vandivert, in collaboration with Rita Vandivert and Maria Eisner.

THE BOTTLER

Velier was founded by the Chaix family in Genova in 1947 as a small traditional company specialised in the importation and distribution of wines, champagnes and spirits. In 1983, a young Luca Gargano, former brand ambassador for Saint James at that time, acquired shares in Velier. Under his influence the company began spacialising in the importation of outstanding spirits exclusively destinated to the Italian market. By the early 90s Luca heard about a legendary stock of Saint James rum dating back probably to 1885 and bottled in 1952. After a complex negotiation, he finally managed to acquire the entire stock. This was only the first of a list of legendary selections to come in the following years.

THE BRAND

Run by family Seale since several generations, Foursquare distillery is the most technologically advanced distillery in the Carribean with a history of rum making dating back to 1820. Reginald Leon Seale is the name of one of the oldest Barbados rum productor who set up a distribution business in Bridgetown at the beginnig of the last century. Nowadays Richard Seale is the master distiller and owner of the Foursquare Distillery and thanks to him, a radical modernization has taken place.

Despite being sat in the middle of a sugar cane plantation, Foursquare imports most of their molasses from Guyana. The rums produced at Foursquare are all a blend of pot and column stills distillation, combined both before and after being barelled. All Foursquare rums do not contain sugar and are distilled and bottled in Barbados. Richard Seale in this regard calls himself a rum keeper, always sided against adulteration, the use of sugar and industrial multi-column. The distillery was designed to be energy efficient and has the most advanced recycling and waste disposal system on the island.