Review: Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum and XO Rum (2020) - Drkhacker

Contents:

• MOUNT GAY XO TRIPLE CASK BLEND RUM
• REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM AND XO RUM (2020)
• MOUNT GAY XO - OLD VS NEW - RUM REVIEW
• MOUNT GAY XO TRIPLE CASK BLEND RUM | 700ML
• MOUNT GAY TRIPLE CASK BLEND X.O. RUM
• MOUNT GAY XO EXTRA OLD TRIPLE CASK 43

MOUNT GAY XO TRIPLE CASK BLEND RUM

Mount Gay Rum | XO. Try a Mount Gay XO Triple Cask Sample... Mount Gay XO Triple Cask Bottlg Note.

Another tasty exprsn om Mount Gay, XO Triple Cask Blend is a blend of pot and lumn still ms.

REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM AND XO RUM (2020)

Although the new XO has the characteristic Mount Gay, unsweetened m flavor of the old XO, this new versn has no punch and the flavor sort of di on the palate rather than lger. It's like the Mount Gay Eclipse, but not available Morrisons and so much better.

Top qualy, tasty drk, as one would expect om Mount Gay. Mount Gay’s Black Barrel and XO Rum exprsns have both been around for some time — Black Barrel is the newbie, released origally 2013; XO was rebrand om s origal “Extra Old” some time around then too — but 2020 the Barbados-based distillery revamped both of the venerable bottlgs. (The were unveiled at an event lled the Mount Gay Brand Ret — signed to “embrace transparency wh an -pth look to the brand and s premium liquids.

Mount Gay Black Barrel is an all-new blend which “featur an olr selectn of ms, movg to a blend of three to seven-year-old ms as opposed to the prev two to seven years, wh a higher ntent of double distilled pot still ms. Mount Gay XO has been “enriched wh a broar palette of ms selected, dividually aged three different sks – Amerin Whiskey, Bourbon and Cognac – for five to 17 years, rather than the prev eight to 15 years. Let’s taste (cludg a parison agast a 2008 vtage bottle of Mount Gay Extra Old).

MOUNT GAY XO - OLD VS NEW - RUM REVIEW

Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum (2020) – I’ve no olr bottlg of this for parison, alas, but based on memory and my old tastg not, the soul of Black Barrel hasn’t changed. Mount Gay XO Rum (2020) – While there’s olr stock the blend now, I thk the key thg to note is that the old Extra Old started at 8 years old, while the new XO starts at a mere 5.

Contrasted wh the rich not of ffee, cholate, and tobac found my 2008 vtage bottlg of Mount Gay Extra Old, and there’s really no parison. Mount Gay XO Rum (2020).

Mount Gay XO is somewhat of an stutn the m world.

MOUNT GAY XO TRIPLE CASK BLEND RUM | 700ML

Dpe that, I remember thkg that Mount Gay XO was one of the bt ms I had ever had when I first tried .

MOUNT GAY TRIPLE CASK BLEND X.O. RUM

Sce that moment 2007, I’ve always had a bottle of Mount Gay XO my m bet. But one of my very likely answers is Mount Gay XO. He started workg at Mount Gay 1991 and retired 2019.

It’s very clear that the master blenr posn changed hands, as there is a noticeable difference the general taste profile at Mount Gay.

MOUNT GAY XO EXTRA OLD TRIPLE CASK 43

NosgNew Mount Gay XOHeavenly bo of u and oak, old barn wood, hay, marzipan, buttery, m n rais ice-cream, tobac. Old Mount Gay XOOak, vanilla, light bber, burnt oak is wonrful, ramel, raiss, cholate, bakg spic. PalateNew Mount Gay XOOak, vanilla, tobac, light nut and a ton of u.

Old Mount Gay XOA lot more wood spice. ConclnI’ve been drkg Mount Gay XO for a very long time and am therefore very faiar wh the taste profile.

At that price level I would have ntued buyg Mount Gay XO like I always have. SrOld Mount Gay XO – 82New Mount Gay XO – 79Click here for on the srg method.

Mount Gay are the olst ntuoly operatg m distillery the world havg traced their history officially to 1703, hence “1703” often appears on Mount Gay products and marketg.