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Jim Vorel's avatar

This is the most important thing to many of the inveterate collectors: Someone once told them that Foursquare equaled "The Pappy of Rum," and they just memorized that rote fact and now hunt for it. Unfortunately, this involves the same degree of disinterest in the entire rest of the industry that they also apply to bourbon. They don't want something unless they're told it's hard to get.

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Matt Pietrek's avatar

The Pappy of Rum originator (as best I know) is Fred Minnick., in this article:

https://www.fredminnick.com/2017/06/22/velier-foursquare-2006-greatest-rum-ive-ever-tasted/

I later wrote about the topic for Punch, and Pappy of Rum was in the headline:

https://punchdrink.com/articles/how-foursquare-rum-became-pappy-barbados-distillery/

I originally had a few additional sentences in a draft of what I published here, including whether we see something similar in rum. In the end, I decided to cut them because it distracted from my point. Some people love to latch on something mentioned as aside proceed to ignore everything else you say.

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Jim Vorel's avatar

Speaking as someone who is surrounded by whiskey geeks and collectors, it's amazing how far that association has subsequently spread. There are SO many bourbon collectors out there who look for Foursquare, but have zero interest in any other rum, because they apply the same type of blinders to it as they do with Buffalo Trace, etc. They legitimately believe it's the only brand in the entire segment that is worthy of their ardor. This kind of groupthink among whiskey collectors is a problem.

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