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