The Real McCoy 3 year old

Profile: The Real McCoy 3 year old at a glance

• Complex quality rum: The Real McCoy from the Foursquare Distillery
• Proclaimed the first “Supreme Champion” of its kind at ISC 2018!
• Distilled in small batches in a rare combination of pot and column stills
• Without added sweeteners, flavors or chemical stabilizers

Portrait: What makes The Real McCoy 3 year old

With The Real McCoy Rum, documentary filmmaker and brand founder Bailey Pryor and Foursquare Master Distiller Richard Seale bring the story of Bill McCoy to life. The pioneer among the “rum smugglers” of the Prohibition era was the first to sell his Caribbean rum legally from a sailboat - outside the then three-mile limit and thus on international waters.
 
McCoy also made a name for himself because he never adulterated his rum by adding turpentine, wood alcohol or prune juice. Instead of “Booze”, “Hooch” or “Rot Gut” McCoy had real quality rum: The Real McCoy.

The rum is made in his honor according to the Prohibition tradition Produced in the Foursquare Distillery on Barbados: without the addition of sweeteners, flavors or chemical stabilizers, but with the finest blackstrap molasses and pure spring water.

It is distilled in small batches in a rare combination of copper pot and column stills, matured in heavily burned bourbon barrels or sherry casks. The result? Rum, which was the first of its kind to be named “Supreme Champion” at the ISC 2018.

After tropical maturation, The Real McCoy is aged for 3 years using charcoal filtration The color is slightly removed, while the complex taste of citrus and floral notes, caramel, coconut and marzipan is retained.

Tasting Notes: This is how The Real McCoy 3 year old tastes like

• Nose: light vanilla aromas and ripe tropical fruits, followed by citrus fruits and a slightly floral aroma
• Palate: ripe coconut at the beginning , soft caramel and marzipan, followed by spicy notes paired with freshly cut wood - in the background the fruits and vanilla again
• Finish: long in the soft finish - very harmonious