The Duchess Foursquare Barbados 21 1999
Loved by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰, Johannes & 27 more
For experienced palates, this 21‑year Foursquare is a dry, oak‑forward Barbados cask strength rum. Community notes mention coconut, burnt sugars, chocolate‑orange, mixed peppers and a slightly “dirty”, tarry edge. Rewards slow sipping.
- Complex dryness
- Mature oak
- Spicy character
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How does The Duchess Foursquare Barbados 21 1999 taste?
Aggregated from 35 community reviews.
Dry, mature, spicy Foursquare For experienced palates, this 21‑year Foursquare is a dry, oak‑forward Barbados cask strength rum. Community notes mention coconut, burnt sugars, chocolate‑orange, mixed peppers and a slightly “dirty”, tarry edge. Rewards slow sipping.
Rum fans who enjoy dry, cask‑strength Barbados rums with serious oak influence, coconut, burnt sugars and peppery spice instead of rounded vanilla sweetness.
Beginners, those sensitive to 60% ABV, or drinkers expecting soft, sweet, coconut‑heavy Barbados profiles.
How is The Duchess Foursquare Barbados 21 1999 rated?
RumX's 0–10 scale is strict — 8.4 lands squarely in the "Very good" band. 94% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 0% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
Rum reviews
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Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
A pretty well rounded Foursquare with nice fruits and lovely spicy touch. Oily palate with a medium finish. Draws really nice curtains in the glass and the empty glass is nice and I can pick up a light marzipan note.
Review by Johannes
Borderline alcohol content, but surprisingly complex for a Foursquare with chocolate-orange notes.
Review by Timo Groeger
Einen schönen Foursquare kurz vorm Tagesabschluss. Relativ fruchtiger Barbados Rum. Auch am Gaumen echt fruchtig vor allem Kokosnuss ist hier erkennbar, nichts für Rumanfänger ;-) Kann man mal machen, aber mehr auch nicht ;-)
Review by Zorman 🇩🇰
This is not your mild coconut driven Barbados, packed in vanilla. From the start Is feels dirty and heavy on the oak and the finish has some tar/fuel notes to it. Only after a while in the glass does the lighter aromas get noticed. The nose and tongue gets very different experiences. Reminds me very much of the Alta Gama FS 21y.
Review by Rare Akuma
Tasted at SITS’24 Opens like classical Foursquare with coconut flesh, pineapple husks, nougat-milk chocolate and malt. Very accessible with a flowery top note. Continues on the same trend on the palate, but with an interesting development of mixed peppers and chili. It’s dry, with lots of burnt sugars and fruit tannins, leading into an astringent mouthfeel. The finish is medium in length; sweet, yet chili-hot and minty. Atypical sensation for FSQ.
Review by Sebastian.W
Tasted at Spirits in the sky Brussels 2024. Nice foursquare, with not as much bourbon notes as I am used to from the distillery.
Review by Pavel Spacek
... Foursquare je destilerka z Barbadosu produkujici uzasne rumy ke kazdodennimu popijeni. Je to rum, ktery oceni zejmena rumari, kteri maji plne zuby cukru a hledaji jemny, nasladly rum plny kokosu, vanilky, cokolady a karamelu. Proste prijemne a nijak agresivni chute.
Review by Philip M. 🇧🇪
09/02/25: tasted alongside Foursquare 2008. An interesting, atypical Foursquare. The aroma was rather muted for me, but the palate made up for that. Different profile than I'm used to, maybe because of the 21 yo ageing?
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Expert review by The Dunder Hut
"With this I do not understand it's high rating. The alcohol integration is terrible. The nice orange peel does not help this one in the end. Besides this, there is just a lot of young sweetish foursquare"
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40 bottles logged by 52,000+ RumX members. The ratio of closed / opened / emptied, indicates whether this rum is meant to be drunk or is a collector's item.
Also on the wishlist of 10 members.
About the Foursquare distillery
The Foursquare distillery is located in Barbados. Rums from Foursquare have been reviewed 12,737 times with an average of 8.3/10.
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