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 %
Contents:
- REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM
- MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM REVIEW
- REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM AND XO RUM (2020)
- RUM REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL
REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM
Mount Gay Rum | Black Barrel. Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum. To celebrate their 310th anniversary, Mount Gay has stepped to the “black” space (aga) wh Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum, a blend of both aged double distilled pot and sgle lumn distilled ms.
The blend for Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum is weighted heavily towards pot distilled m and is fished a heavily charred ex-bourbon barrel.
Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum is nsired to be a replacement for Mount Gay’s earlier Eclipse Black, which was a blend of 100 proof m ag two to seven years. There’s no age statement on the Mount Gay Black Barrel, but s proof is lower at 86, and s lor is much darker than the Eclipse Black.
MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM REVIEW
It’s important to keep the release of Mount Gay Black Barrel perspective, however – a 100 proof m isn’t for everyone, so by lowerg the proof and creasg the barrel impact Mount Gay is taylorg this release towards woog bourbon drkers who may not have much experience wh the m tegory.
Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum (86 proof / 43% abv, $30) is ep amber lor, and the impact of the heavily charred bourbon barrel uldn’t be much clearer s lor. This strong oak spice pretty much f the Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum experience, and how well you like this m will be greatly pennt on how much you like oak. Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum don’t hi the fact that is a m for bourbon drkers.
At $30, Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum is a ltle pricier than say, Plantatn’s 5 Year Barbados m, but ’s also bigger and bolr.
REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM AND XO RUM (2020)
Mount Gay very close to liverg an exceptnal m, but ends up gog a b too far wh the oak agg. Beyond the nce of s aromas, Mount Gay Black Barrel remas uy and bold taste and livers a eply toasty fish. 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).
RUM REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL
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). So now I’m workg my way through some of the more popular labels, and the Mount Gay Black Barrel is near the top of that list.
While the olst rerd of the distillery n date back to a ed 1703 (which allows to claim the tle of the olst operatg m distillery the world), the distillery is named for the much more recent owner Sir John Gay Alleyne, who purchased the facily 1747 and ran until his ath 1801.