Foursquare Rum Distillery Mandamus
Foursquare Rum Distillery Mandamus is a 114-proof (57% ABV), 750mL 16-year-old single blended Barbados rum — Mark XXIX, the 29th release in Foursquare's famed Exceptional Cask Selection (ECS) series — double-matured for 10 years in ex-bourbon barrels then 6 years in ex-port pipes — available to order online at Del Mesa Liquor, San Diego, CA.
Mandamus — "we command," the Latin legal term for a court order — is only the third ECS ever to see ex-port cask maturation, following 2014's Mark II Port Cask Finish and 2020's Mark XIV Détente. Hand-selected by Master Distiller and Master Blender Richard Seale, the fourth generation of the R.L. Seale family, it is a marriage of pot still and column still rums distilled at Foursquare's St. Philip distillery, on a historic sugar plantation site dating back to the 1720s (the distillery reopened by the Seale family in 1996). Every drop was aged, blended, and bottled on-site in Barbados with no added sugar, no added color, and no filtration — the transparency that made the ECS series the benchmark for rum integrity.
Tasting notes (official producer notes via Skurnik): a soft, layered nose of dried cocoa, apricots, bright fresh coconut, orange peel, cherry blossom, and milk chocolate, over toasted honey, saline, and a hint of cedar; a full, rich palate with a bright punch of citrus and berries, caramel, blackberry pie filling, and long, oxidative age notes; a soft, supple finish of dark fruit and seasoned oak.
Why buy: Sixteen years in the Caribbean climate drinks like two decades in Scotland — and port-pipe Foursquares are the most chased ECS bottles of all. This is cask-strength, fully age-stated, additive-free rum from a distillery named Rum Producer of the Year for a decade running. Explore more Foursquare and browse more aged rum at Del Mesa Liquor.
FAQ — people also ask:
Q: What does "single blended rum" mean?
A: A rum blended from multiple distillations made entirely at one distillery — here, Foursquare's copper double-retort pot still rum married with Coffey column still rum.
Q: What is Foursquare Mandamus?
A: The 29th release (Mark XXIX) in Foursquare's Exceptional Cask Selection series: a 16-year-old Barbados rum, 10 years in ex-bourbon barrels then 6 years in ex-port pipes, bottled at 57% ABV / 114 proof.
Q: Does Foursquare Mandamus have added sugar?
A: No — like all ECS releases, it has no added sugar, no added color, and no chill filtration.