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Foursquare ECS XXIII Covenant 2005
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Wood lovers are the real audience here — at 18 tropical years, this Foursquare leans hard into oak, tannin and toasted barrel, with coconut, vanilla, caramel and dried fruit underneath. Several tasters call out honey and milk chocolate, and the 58% sits well integrated. A couple find the cask almost too dominant, and it's less complex than the age suggests.
The community says- Well-integrated 58%
- Long warm finish
- Keep in mind: Wood-forward
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How does Foursquare ECS XXIII Covenant 2005 taste?
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Oaky, dry 18-year Foursquare sipper Most find it a well-made, oaky sipper where the long tropical aging shows clearly. The recurring catch: strong cask influence and less complexity than 18 years might promise.
Aroma profilePeople who love heavy oak and long-aged Barbados rum
Anyone put off by strong tannins or wanting bold complexity
Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat
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Yes, if you're after bold, mature, oaky rums for sipping neat.
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What does the community say?
110 community reviews
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Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Most helpful positive review
22.03.2025 Retasting at Whisky Watcher tasting. ---------------------- #4654 10.03.2024 Relaxing at bit at home while my wife is out with a friend. Nose Wood, light roasted, light coconut, dried fruit, faint glue, balanced. Palate Wood, roasted, spicy, medium dry, tannins, faint chocolate, dried fruit, light cherry. Finish Long and warm, wood, plum, spice, light chocolate. The empty glass has some light leather and caramel notes.
Review by Banana Joe
Most helpful mixed review
Scored worst in comparison with the 2011 and the Mystique. Alcohol not very well integrated, therefore a little too sharp. The wood influence and the tannins are too strong for me. Overall not as round as the other two.
Review by Jakob
Nice Foursquare with a fairly broad range of aromas. Great base sweetness, fresh fruit notes, subtle tobacco, caramel, chocolate. On the palate, great oily viscosity. The alcohol doesn’t stand out excessively either. All in all, for me a remarkable release in the ECS series, the high age works very well.
Review by Dr.Django
Today there are two Foursquare: 1. Covenant: It tastes just like it looks. Lots of dark fruits, a bit leathery and dry on the palate. The cask influence is very strong, almost too strong. You have to know what you're getting into, and if you like that, you won’t be disappointed here. The alcohol is super well integrated. Delicious Foursquare, and I could imagine craving it every now and then! 2. Absolutio: Awesome stuff! You won’t find any surprises in the nose or palate here either. Full-bodied, starts silky and finishes pleasantly oily. Nice (dry) woody and chocolatey-fruity, great balance. The finish is very long and offers a play between dried fruits covered in chocolate and wood. I especially love rums with these long, great finishes, and that’s what makes this rum for me! Lovely, now it’s time: “Hunters must hunt” Many thanks to Schnubbii!
Review by Johannes
The long tropical aging really did it good. Nice milk chocolate, coconut, almost heading towards Belize. If only it were a pure pot still now...
Review by Joachim Guger
Very good nose. Typical Foursquare profile, focus on caramel, restrained wood or spice. Light tobacco. Great mouthfeel, creamy, strong, very spicy. The finish is great, warms well. You don't have to chase every Foursquare release, but if you want a nice, very good sipper, this is the right choice. Top craftsmanship. Thanks to Bonn!!
Review by zabo
Tasted at Pueblo del Ron Nürnberg 2024. Was surprised that you could already try and even buy it at the fair. At first glance, it didn't quite grab me, so I'll try it again tomorrow with a bit more calm and time in the glass. Somehow I find it has a slight off-note. So for now, I've rated it a bit lower. Edit: tried it again calmly at home. I find something disturbing. Better than the Indelible, which was too thin for me, but there are far better ECS out there.
Review by Basti
On the nose, it almost has a bit of a tropical aged Diamond vibe. Glue, dried fruits, spices, coconut, and a pleasant sweetness. I really like it. On the palate, lots of spices, wood, and a bitterness that’s also present in the finish. Looking forward to a direct comparison with the Isonomy.
Review by Beancheese
Tried alongside Foursquare ECS 2009 XVII. Both are classic Foursquare offerings and along the lines of what you would expect. This one has a honey nose, along with some fruit, some spice and mild glue notes. On the palate this one is much smoother and more balanced - lacking the intensity of Covenant. Oak, spice and a nice viscous mouthfeel, this is a pleasant rum from Foursquare.
Review by mto75
With 18 years, the longest cask aging from the ECS range I've tasted so far (the Shibbo only reached 16 years). On the nose somehow slightly sour, like sea buckthorn, plus plenty of tannins from the cask, a bit of yellow fruits and caramel pudding. On the palate toasted cask, tobacco, milk coffee, malt. I rank it in the upper third of the ECSs. However, the Sovereignty, Shibbo, and Redoutable definitely rank higher.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
Very very tasty Foursquare, round and easy to drink. Unusually floral and flowery, subtly sandalwood, honey, rose & lychee, fruity with mango, raisins and dried plums, spicy with milk chocolate, caramel and sharp ginger. Very full-bodied and unusually complex. Finally a somewhat different Foursquare!
Review by Tim
The oldest Foursquare from the ECS series, even a year older than Isonomy, which unfortunately I no longer have for comparison. This rum shows the characteristics of long aging: oak wood, leather, spices, dried fruits. Not bad, but not exceptionally good either. In other words, a solid FS rum.
Review by Serge
Tasted at the Village in Nuremberg. Decent Foursquare. I have associations with pickled green peppercorns in the nose. Fits well with the spicy peppery profile on the palate. But overall not really my feel-good Foursquare.
Review by Timo Groeger
First impression, immediately coconut on the nose. Over time, vanilla and caramel are added. On the palate it is very spicy, some wood is recognizable, but also vanilla and caramel again.
Review by Jussi Piirainen
German Rum Festival 2026 review, so maybe not the most accurate review from me. On the nose: Woody, roasted, vanilla, caramel. Light citrus notes. Spices from the bourbon barrell. Taste: Intense at first. Vanilla, caramel. Woody. Roasted. Round. Spices like nutmeg Finish: Woody, roasted, peppery . Light chocolate notes. Little bit of vanilla. Pretty good Foursquare rum that highlights the bourbon cask notes.
Review by SaibotZtar
Once again a very typical Foursquare nose... coconut, chocolate, vanilla, caramel and a bit of raisin, with a light floral blossom note. No surprises on the palate... solid as often, but somehow very similar to most Foursquare releases... also on the palate chocolate, some coconut, vanilla, a bit of raisin and caramel.
Review by Steffmaus🇩🇰
After a long day of digging out for a fireplace in a garden, it's time for something I've been waiting for. To date, the oldest Foursquare rum. In the nose it has the Barbados profile of tropical fruits and dried fruits, and in the notes it's very woody, with other notes of chocolate, spice and some tobacco
Review by Rum Watcher
Sweet & spicy... probably describes it best. The age does it good, otherwise the spiciness and yet very caramelly sweetness would clash too much. The alcohol is very well integrated. Perhaps not the most complex Foursqare of all time, but very tasty. Cheers
Review by abaker-rum
At first you get caramel and vanilla on the nose, but once you go deeper you get a very pleasant honey scent. The taste is classic Foursquare with caramel, spice, and vanilla, but an added dryness due to the age. You have a long finish with spices.
Review by Boletus
After 18 years of maturation, it is of course to be expected that the cask has a strong influence on the overall picture. Fortunately, there are not too many bitter substances in play here and the sticky note present immediately after pouring increasingly fades to make room for coconut, vanilla and dried fruit. However, there is an irritating, perfumed aftertaste right from the start, as if I've had a load of hairspray in my open mouth, which I know from many a scotch from the 60s and 70s, but have never had with a rum. This aroma doesn't bother me directly, but I would have liked the Covenant even better without it.
Review by MarcT
Foursquare is a solid rum every time, i have been rarely disappointed by a bottle or sample. This is quite old (18yo tropical) and bourbon casks only, and it shows. Even i get some vanilla, but also lots of wood and some caramel. I got rums in my reviews that are more roasted or have more tannins, and Barbados is always (for me at least) more to the milder side, but it has more cask going than expected.
Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
Great Foursquare tasting, part II (30.09.2026)
Review by Rowald Sweet Empire
More tame and balanced than most FS. Must be the age. A whiff of acidity. Oaky. Vanilla. American oak/sandal wood. Not so much glue. Roasted coconut. Nice! Taste: more wood. Some prune. Tannins. Bitter. Dry. Burnt sugar. Sweet Bayleaf licorice. Balanced still yet you must love wood. Ps: nobiliairy is prob still my favourite
Review by Piotr Ignasiak
A nice sipper this one. Despite the age the wood is felt but does not become predominant. Well made Foursquare, but doesn't score too high on complexity for me. However I do like the buttery and some sweetness to it. Thanks Schnubbi for the sample.
Review by Martin Švojgr
Well, that's another good performance by Seal.
Review by Mirco
Rum Club Switzerland Tasting Set. Thanks Denis for organizing. Very nice Foursquare with clearly more maturity and depth than the classic ECS releases. On the nose vanilla, oak, dark fruits and some spice, plus a nice caramel sweetness. On the palate strong and round with lots of wood, spices and dark fruit. You can tell it's 18 years old without the rum becoming too woody. A very harmonious and complex Foursquare.
Review by Shridhar Acharya
It’s a good rum. But it ranks further behind from other ECS that I’ve tried. There’s a certain familiarity that Foursquare ECS brings, this one does that at start. But then it deviates quickly, perhaps more to do with the longest aged rum. Somewhere it feels a little off balance for me personally, can’t quite put my finger on it. Will share my experience with this in a while again
Review by Santo
The nose of this rum is, in my opinion, its main asset. On the palate, as well as in the finish, it remains classic for an ECS. The long maturation seems barely perceptible compared to the profile of the classic 12-year bottling. It's not really my favorite.
Review by Nils123
At that age, I would have expected a little more complexity, which is a shame.
Review by ElReyTristan
Gourmet nose, typical of Foursquare, oily, slightly burnt coconut. On the palate, these aromas are repeated with a touch of vanilla and burnt brown sugar. The finish is slightly bitter and chocolatey.
Review by jordanandrsn
Big honey explosion on the palate followed by some barrel influence.
Review by Henry Davies
Ahead of the curve on this one as found in New York. The nose is surprisingly muted, classic foursquare bourbon notes, caramel and wood with a note I can’t quite place and land with litchi. Mouth is more classic, oak is there but does not overpower with some bright spice and tropical fruit soaked in caramel. Finish brings layers of spice with a long and lingering warm edge. It’s good for sure but not as elevated as some of the cask finishes or crisp as the 2008 six years it’s younger sibling to my taste
Review by Jags
My favourite Foursquare rums are the ones aged in Ex-Bourbon casks, period. This 18 yr old rum does not disappoint, simply delicious. At 58% ABV it is so smooth. Another 10/10 from Richard Seale. I had 2 bottles of this and hesitated to open one, now I have to keep an eye out for FS Covenant.
Review by Tyler Griffith
Very warm, woody profile. A hint of fruit as well, fairly long finish.
Review by DutchRumPirate
Delicious Foursquare. Just poured into the glass, the smell is strongly roasted, woody and a hint of sweetness, dried fruit, caramel. The longer in the glass, the sweeter the smell becomes. The fruit then comes more and more forward. Taste: milk chocolate, dried fruit, raisins. With woody notes. Tannins and medium dry. Dryness definitely not overpowering. The longer in the mouth, the more the woody notes come forward. Also the roasted notes. Taste is strong. Finish medium to long. And again that combo of dried fruit and woody. I find it delicious, really a pleasure. A treat.
Review by Jus Liens
Much more complex than the Doorly's 12 years tasted in the same session. (price: x4 or 5). But in the same spirit: wood, vanilla, coconut. Drier palate, coconut, wood, spices. Finish: also caramel, burnt sugar. A bitterness that I don't like. It's good and well made but it's not my thing.
Review by nguyen phan
Nose: leather and star anise at first then roasted and oaky, after 5-10 mins there is coconut creamy or caramel. Taste: sweet at initial and turn spicy quickly, roasted fl!vor, tannin from oak, dark chocolate. Powerful alcohol but in the controlled zone. After taste: medium, dry, a little bitterness. Overall: quite good rum but I prefer the previous version Isonomy 17y
Review by TShute
This is oaky but not in a bad way. The finish hangs around for a long time.
Review by Kasper
Macy Rom fest 2/11/24. Very spicy and peppery with some delicate green herbal notes. I find a minty and eucalyptus note but also other herbs. Finish in a sweet palate of burnt and candied sugar. Very nice. Complexity 3 of 5. Score 8,5
Review by Solidfunk
Sweeter than the 2011 12 year, but also spicy. A little more tangerine. White pepper in the finish makes this a hint spicy. Faint vanilla. Golden copper pour.
Review by Ma_Lau
A good Foursquare
Review by Pavel Spacek
Not extra strong flavour
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10% opened, 3 emptied.
What does Foursquare ECS XXIII Covenant 2005 cost?
Community paid 110–178 €.
Current best price: 181.00 € – above the typical community range.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 143 €. Price history with 11 auction results in RX+ ›
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Details about Foursquare ECS XXIII Covenant 2005
A Pot & Column Still Rum from Barbados, distilled by Foursquare, at 58%.
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