Foursquare wins IWSC Rum Trophy a fourth time

In a remarkable repeat performance, Barbados’s Foursquare Rum Distillery has clinched the 2025 IWSC Rum Trophy for its Foursquare EQUIDEM—a double-aged 14-year-old spirit that impressed judges at the International Wine & Spirits Competition (IWSC). The award is the IWSC’s highest honour for rum.

This latest victory marks Foursquare’s second consecutive IWSC Rum Trophy and its fourth overall, having previously secured the title in 2016, 2020, 2024. In a global field of over 400 rums, the IWSC panel of expert judges selects only one standout for the trophy each year.

Over the past decade, the St Philip distillery has also been shortlisted nine times for the IWSC’s Rum Producer of the Year title, winning it on five occasions—in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2024. In 2021, it also took home the title of Outstanding Spirits Producer of the Year, the competition’s top accolade across all spirit categories.

The IWSC, founded in 1969, is the world’s oldest and most prestigious wine and spirits competition, globally recognised as one of the most rigorous and respected judging platforms for wine and spirits. Each year, a panel of experts blind-judges thousands of entries across all major spirit categories, awarding only a select few with the prestigious Spirit Trophy.

According to Forbes, Foursquare Rum Distillery, founded in 1996, has built a global reputation for “uncompromising quality, transparency, and award-winning craftsmanship”.

Foursquare is owned by R. L. Seale & Co. Ltd, producers of some of the island’s most popular rum brands, including Old Brigand, ESA Field, Alleyne Arthur, and Doorly’s. It is also Barbados’s most successful wholly Barbadian-owned exporter.

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