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What you need to know:

• The new Touchstone ECS Mark XXII has been aged in ex-bourbon and ex-cognac casks for a total of 14 years and is as usual a blend of pot and column distillate.

• It was marked for release in 2022, and is bottled at 61% ABV or 122 Proof.

Foursquare's Exceptional Cask Selection (ECS) has been a hot favorite with rum lovers all around the world, who now have something new to rejoice over - a new Touchstone ECS!

The new Touchstone ECS Mark XXII has been aged in ex-bourbon and ex-cognac casks for a total of 14 years and is as usual a blend of pot and column distillate.

Foursquare Distillery has added additional details, telling us that one part of Touchstone's components was matured in cognac casks from the famous Camus house.

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Camus had sent casks of cognac to Barbados in January 2019, where it was aged for slightly over a year, after which the cognac was shipped back to Camus, while the casks were then filled with 12 Year Old 2008 Pot and Column blend of Foursquare rum (previously matured in ex-Bourbon).

The rum was then left to mature in the Camus cognac casks for almost 3 years, before being blended with another double matured ex-Bourbon and ex-cognac cask-aged Foursquare single blend for the Touchstone expression.

It was marked for release in 2022, and is bottled at 61% ABV or 122 Proof.

"Touchstone

A test for excellence and authenticity'

A blend of rums distilled in the copper double retort pot still and the continuous twin column still of Foursquare and aged for 14 years in ex-bourbon and ex-cognac casks."

Kanpai!

88 Bamboo Editorial Team