Foursquare Probitas White Rum

Probitas means honesty in Latin, and the bottle is a manifesto: a white rum with nothing added, made by the two distilleries leading the fight for unadulterated rum. Richard Seale of Foursquare in Barbados — the distillery Fred Minnick dubbed the Pappy of rum — and the Hussey family of Hampden Estate in Jamaica, the temple of high-ester pot-still funk, blended their unaged spirits together and released it in 2020, sold as Veritas outside the US. Probitas is a marriage of Foursquare's double-retort pot and Coffey column rum with Hampden's wild, long-fermented pot-still rum, unaged, unfiltered, unsweetened, and bottled at 47% ABV. Drinkhacker found it clearly intended to demonstrate Foursquare's dedication to unadulterated rum in a category where white spirits are usually stripped to neutral. Paste, revisiting it, calls the blend quite nice and a flagship. Expect a nose of overripe banana, pineapple, and Hampden's glue-like esters over Foursquare's cleaner coconut and cane, opening into a bright, funky, dry palate with tropical fruit, white pepper, and real texture, finishing long and clean. Honest note: it's a funk-forward white — drinkers expecting Bacardí should know, and Daiquiri obsessives will never go back. For the definitive Daiquiri, a Mai Tai, a Jungle Bird, or a Ti' Punch riff, it's the white rum bartenders argue is the best in the world. Two distilleries, one bottle, nothing to hide.

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