R.L. Seale's 12 Year Barbados RumR. L. Seale & Co. was founded in 1926 by Reginald Leon Seale, embracing the Barbados tradition of fine aged and blended rums. The landscape of Barbados rum, like many other Islands, was dominated in the earlier part of the 20th century by blends made by merchants, rather than the producers themselves. These merchants would buy bulk rum from the island's distilleries and blend it, selling bottles to consumers from their shops in the island's capital,