Mount Gay XO, Barbados Mount Gay XO, sippg ms, master blenr Allen Smh, Remy Cotre, Master Blenr Tdiann Branker, pper pot and lumn still ms, aged between 5 and 17 years ex-bourbon, Amerin whiskey, and gnac sks,
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Mount Gay Rum | XO.
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
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 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 - OLD VS NEW - RUM REVIEW
Mount Gay XO Rum (2020).
Mount Gay XO. When I began explorg ms, Barbados Mount Gay XO was one of the first “sippg” ms I explored and studied.
One of the first ms I was aware she had changed was Mount Gay XO, and I was cur to see how well held up to the origal blend that was such an sential part of my m foundatn. 1703 Mount Gay Distilleri” embossed along the ont bottom of the bottle. When I thk of the origal Mount Gay XO and the new versn, there are ed some big differenc the profil.