Richard Seale: his named mentors...

Post by **Capn Jimbo** » Mon May 25, 2015 2:13 pm

Thought you might be interested in who Richard considers as his own mentors...

Quoting Richard:

"My father – People are often in awe when they visit Foursquare, its a standard they don’t expect, he set the standard.
Dave Broom – A whisky advocate who became a believer in rum. If he could so I realised, must I.
Neil Mathieson – Neil heads up our European/UK importers. He is a purist with utter contempt for anything less. Clearly we needed to find each other.
Luca Gargano – His enthusiasm for rum is joyous. He came to me to speak the gospel of pure single rum and I had an epiphany."

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http://www.therumlab.com/interview-with ... -barbados/

The Black Tot · Post by **The Black Tot** » Tue May 26, 2015 9:15 am

Loved the comments about expanding the special editions portfolio!

Dai · Post by **Dai** » Tue May 26, 2015 12:21 pm

Apart from his old man, surprised at who his mentors are.

Post by **Capn Jimbo** » Tue May 26, 2015 4:38 pm

I'm less surprised...

Dave Broom is a force we all respect. Do visit the thread on Gargano and read his interview - a man dedicated to purity. As for Mathieson, he comes from a family with over 100 years of experience in producing Scotch whisky and is building a new distillery in Scotland based on top quality Forsythe (Scottish) copper pot stills, as is common for single malt production.

And I know Seale well enough to know that I'm confident that anyone he calls a mentor deserves the accolade.

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http://whiskyadvocate.com/2014/06/27/mo ... tup-story/
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/herit ... -1-3312408
http://rumproject.com/rumforum//viewtopic.php?t=1766

JaRiMi · Post by **JaRiMi** » Tue May 26, 2015 6:44 pm

Nice mentors indeed, all very respected and I think well chosen (I do not personally know them, but know of them).

To me, Luca Gargano especially means something of an "inspirator" - continues the great tradition of Italian great maestros of quality spirit world - Samaroli, Velier, Righi. Amazing people who are true to quality, and who have discovered & delivered us amazing rum & whiskies.