Barbados: Mount Gay Rum Distillery & Visors Centre

Contents:

• MOUNT GAY RUM®
• MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE RUM
• MOUNT GAY RUM
• MOUNT GAY RUM – LATT PRIC AND BUYG GUI
• REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM AND XO RUM (2020)
• MOUNT GAY VISOR CENTRE
• MOUNT GAY RUM PRIC AND BUYER’S GUI
• MOUNT GAY RUM COCKTAILS
• MOUNT GAY RUM DISTILLERY & VISORS CENTRE

MOUNT GAY RUM®

While perfectly enjoyed neat, the plex flavours of Mount Gay ms blend exquisely to cktails. If you’ve ever spent time around a mara, chanc are you’re faiar wh Mount Gay, a m that striv to mata a ep relatnship wh the sailg muny. Whether you’re faiar wh Mount Gay or not, here’s everythg you need to know about a brand that’s been distillg m for more than three centuri.

The team at Mount Gay strongly spects productn was gog on even earlier, and has recently unvered a ed om 1654 that might seal the se.

Back 1747, John Sober purchased the plantatn and distillery that would e to be known as Mount Gay.

MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE RUM

That means the island has lots of unrground water, a key element what mak Mount Gay unique and why the Brish cid to foc sugarne and m productn here the 17th century.

Hundreds of years ago, Mount Gay uld rely on the molass om lol sugar ne for all of s needs, but that’s no longer the se as there simply isn’t enough available land anymore.

The proprietary yeast stra is based off a ptured wild yeast, which Mount Gay’s team then bred for nsistency. Mount Gay has been closely lked to the world of sailg for s, as symbolized by s red (often worn-out pk) logo-bearg hat.

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Mount Gay’s current master distiller, Tdiann Branker, is the first woman to n thgs the distillery’s history. Followg a five-year apprentichip unr Mount Gay’s prev master distiller, she took on her current role.

Clean and clear Mount Gay Silver is the brand’s entry-level m, but grab while you n, bee ’s beg removed om the Amerin market. Like all tropilly produced spirs, Mount Gay ag nearly three tim as quickly as spirs barrel-aged oler climat.

MOUNT GAY RUM – LATT PRIC AND BUYG GUI

Here are 10 of the bt m—and rhum agrile—brands, all styl, to drk this GayBarbados’s Mount Gay has been around one form or another for about 300 years, but master blenr Tdiann Branker has only held her tle at the distillery for a ltle more than a year. Last year, Branker ntributed her first Master Blenr Collectn exprsn lled Mount Gay Pot Still Rum, which was only distilled pot stills, stead of the ual batn of pot and lumn stills. We ought to see more special releas like this the g Mount Gay From $26, Real McCoyFoursquare is another Barbados distillery known for makg great m, some of which is sold unr other brand nam.

Fermentatn really begs when molass and filtered water om Barbados are bed wh yeast (selected exclively for Mount Gay). For over three hundred years, the distct and pure character of Mount Gay ms has e om distillatn tradnal lumn and pper pot stills. A ground-breakg distillatn technique 1703, this procs has been ntuo e by Mount Gay ever sce.

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

The ageg procs is particularly unpredictable the tropil Caribbean climate, and at Mount Gay, we prefer to talk about maturg. Today, Mount Gay ms are matured lightly charred Amerin oak barrels that have prevly been ed to age Amerin whiskey.

Master Blenr2019 - todayFirst female Master Blenr at Mount Gay and Barbados, Tdiann Branker, graduate of the Siebel Instute and the Instute of Brewg and Distillg, posss a strong amic background, to which she adds over 11 years workg the spirs dtry. She joed the Mount Gay team 2014 as the Qualy Assurance Manager and followed the same path as Allen Smh wh the distillery—and she ntu to be spired by his legacy at Mount Gay. Tdiann posss the sire to create, explore new ias and tablish a productive dialogue that is le wh Mount Gay’s ambn.

MOUNT GAY VISOR CENTRE

It is wh great pri that I bee Mount Gay’s Master Blenr … to create new treasur, expand our ms and vent new blends.” -Tdiann Branker.

Allen Smh joed the Mount Gay Distillery 1991, and assisted the blendg of Mount Gay Extra Old unr the stctns of Master Blenr J. The pany's olst ed of property dat om Febary 1703, makg Mount Gay Rum the olst brand of m the world.

It would be impossible to dive to the history of m whout mentng Mount Gay Distillery, the world’s olst nng m distillery, tablished 1703. That small distillery grew – diggg a well, plantg sgle-strand fields of ne, and expandg towards a larger future – unr the learship of Sir John Gay Alleyne.

MOUNT GAY RUM PRIC AND BUYER’S GUI

“Two important eds om 1654 and 1703 state that m was already beg produced on the dat at our Mount Gay tate, makg Mount Gay the olst nng m distillery,” explas Mount Gay Rum Master Blenr Tdiann Branker. Mount Gay pris self on herage and s rich history that stretch across centuri and through each blend. Today, Mount Gay ss atop four re blends: Eclipse, Black Barrel, XO, and the 1703 Master Select.

Each of the blends is steeped Mount Gay history, and each is ma wh properti unique to Mount Gay and the island of Barbados. “The terroir of Barbados is unparalleled and has a signifint fluence on Mount Gay m,” adms Branker.

“Mount Gay Rum has this distct taste unlike any other ms om the islands,” says Taylor Rae, Bartenr at NYC’s Ghost Donkey and US Natnal Wner: MGR Taste of Summer Comp. Fally, the perfect balance that is the pot and lumn still blend that is unique to Mount Gay.”.

MOUNT GAY RUM COCKTAILS

Mount Gay tak the Barbadian quali and go a step or two further by g a unique batn of lumn and pper pot stills to create a wir variety of flavors.

“The batn of each step of the procs mak our m tly unique: om the selectn of sugarne molass to the fermentatn woon sks, the distillatn g both lumn and pot still, the maturatn different typ of oak sks and fally the expertise of our Master Blenr [Tdiann Branker] durg the blendg procs,” says Raphaël Grisoni, Managg Director of Mount Gay. The strong flavors s at the re of what sets m apart om s fellow dark liquors, and Mount Gay nsistently works to set self apart aga om s m petors.

Grisoni adds that “what’s unique about Mount Gay is that we are the world’s olst nng m distillery and we leverage over 300 years of herage and expertise. While has a varied flavor profile, you n pick out Mount Gay m for s plex not of dark cholate, almond, ripe banana, and h vanilla.

MOUNT GAY RUM DISTILLERY & VISORS CENTRE

“Mount Gay has a buttery and roundg fish that allows you to enjoy both by self and a cktail. The variatn Mount Gay exprsns appeals to discerng palat and those seekg flavor and richns their glass.

“I enjoy simple, inic cktails like the classic m sour ma wh Mount Gay Black Barrel – ’s my go-to cktail,” says Grisoni. Mount Gay is a great sential gredient for several classic cktails, as well as a liquid that n be sipped neat or wh a large nut water ice cube to brg out the te flavor and not.