Explore Mount Gay Distillery - Vis Barbados

Contents:

• MOUNT GAY, OFFICIAL RUM OF COWES WEEK
• MOUNT GAY VISOR CENTRE
• MOUNT GAY RUM TOUR
• MOUNT GAY DISTILLERY
• MOUNT GAY RUM VISOR CENTER TOURS AND TICKETS
• BARBADOS’ MOST MOUNT GAY RUM DISTILLERY IS ‘WORLD RENOWNED’
• MOUNT GAY RUM
• MOUNT GAY UNVEILS A NEW CHAPTER FOR THE BRAND IN 2020
• MOUNT GAY – CORNERSTONE OF CARIBBEAN RUM

MOUNT GAY, OFFICIAL RUM OF COWES WEEK

MOUNT GAY, OFFICIAL RUM OF COWES WEEK.

How to craftMount Gay cktails.

MOUNT GAY VISOR CENTRE

While perfectly enjoyed neat, the plex flavours of Mount Gay ms blend exquisely to cktails. The birthplace of Mount Gay. Spirs also mature faster a tropil settg than lr northern clim, so nature set Barbados up for m excellence, and is no cince that the island’s most famo producer, Mount Gay, is the olst operatg m distiller the world, sce 1703.

In this ve, the Mount Gay Visors Center is a standout, wh not jt the ual ee tastg and souvenirs, but a full slate of experienc, om a eper signature m tastg ($20) to a hands-on cktail craftg workshop ($70) to a tradnal Bajan lunch featurg the lol culary specialti and bottomls m punch - pl signature m tastg ($75). There are a few other ep dive optns, many of which, like the cktail class and Bajan lunch, clu ee transportatn om hotels (the Mount Gay Visor Experience is an easily accsed mm-like settg the heart of Bridgetown, the island’s largt cy, not at the ral distillery self). I vised, and I tasted, and I loved , but you do not have to travel to the islands to experience the bt of what Mount Gay has to offer, cludg s newt special edns.

Mount Gay’s signature, what the brand is famo for, is refully blendg aged ms, and s flagship label, Eclipse, claims to be the world’s very first such blend.

MOUNT GAY RUM TOUR

But Mount Gay tak this ncept a step further, and for more than century, all of s products have been blends of spicier ms produced tradnal small batch pot stills and the on produced tall lumn stills, for a nuanced roundns distctive to the brand, a bt of both worlds approach. It shows the distillery’s four signature taste characteristics found to varyg gre all Mount Gay products: ripe bananas, sweet vanilla, mocha and bter almond. “Ageg is greatly accelerated this tropil environment where the spir evaporat om sks three tim faster than Stland or Ireland, ” Chterfield Brown, Mount Gay’s ternatnal brand ambassador, and a Barbados native, told me.

” The Eclipse, like most Mount Gay ms, is aged bourbon barrels exported om the U.

Steppg up the Mount Gay lp brgs you to Brown’s personal favore, the Black Barrel.

MOUNT GAY DISTILLERY

One direct ntributn of the parent pany’s experience is the premium exprsn, Mount Gay XO, simply a fantastic m. It layers flavors of dried u such as raiss and pne wh the signature Mount Gay profile, and remd me on the fish of m rais ice cream, a very good way.

The top of the regular le is a super-premium blend lled 1703, om ms aged 10-30 years personally selected by Mount Gay master distiller Allen Smh.

A uple of years ago, Remy Cotre bought a 320-acre Barbados plantatn to grow sugarne exprsly for Mount Gay, and is expected to produce a sgle tate terroir foced product the g years. Wh over 300 years of m-makg expertise, the Mount Gay Rum Distillery boasts of beg the olst producer of Caribbean m globally wh unterpted operatns.

MOUNT GAY RUM VISOR CENTER TOURS AND TICKETS

Visors will be guid through the history, herage and craft of Mount Gay ms, while special tours treat you to a cktail mixg ssn, a tradnal Bajan lunch or our dner experienc. Mount Gay Rum: This is more than a mTours & experiencExplore different ways to experience this is Travelers’ Choice? Tripadvisor giv a Travelers’ Choice award to acmodatns, attractns and rtrants that nsistently earn great reviews om travelers and are ranked wh the top 10% of properti on ways to experience Mount Gay Visor CentreSee what travelers are sayggallohBoston, Massachetts50 ntributnsFun tour We were stayg at Sandals and wanted a quick activy that would take off property but would not require a big time mment.

We took a taxi to Mount Gay visor center. It also of urse clus a ee sample of m punch and a tastg of the different ms produced by Mount Gay distillery. Would be a great ray afternoon activy (although hardly seems to ra for very long)Vised Febary 2020Traveled as a upleWrten Febary 12, 2020Alan CKgston, Uned Kgdom63 ntributnsThe bt m tastg me along for the Monday morng extend m tastg that started the Mm - showg the 1703 ed that prov Mount Gay as the olst m distiller.

BARBADOS’ MOST MOUNT GAY RUM DISTILLERY IS ‘WORLD RENOWNED’

Vised March 2020Traveled as a upleWrten March 5, 2020MEllertonMiddlbrough, Uned Kgdom63 ntributnsNo better place to learn about Mount Gay mWhat do you do Barbados when s rag (or tth any day) but brg a ltle sunshe wh a trip to Mount Gay Visor Centre. A vis to the gift shop is of urse a mt where var bottl of Mount Gays ms are on sale together wh souvenir ems.

MOUNT GAY RUM

Four of did a tastg only at Mt Gay. Lucy at the actual distillery; there is no gift shop there but there is a separate Mount Gay visor center/gift shop the Worthg you for this wonrful review, very tailed. I was slightly disappoted by the range and qualy of mount gay products the souvenir shop.

I genuely hold Mount Gay as some of if not the bt m the world, and Romal's tour took over the top.

Vised Febary 2023Traveled soloWrten Febary 14, 2023Great vis to learn and tasteThis isn't the actual distillery, but 's a great place to learn about how m is distilled and pecially the history of Mount Gay Rum. Mount Gay, St Lucy, Barbados.

MOUNT GAY UNVEILS A NEW CHAPTER FOR THE BRAND IN 2020

But how then was the name Mount Gay rived?

Well, at the time Mount Gilboa plantatn was managed by Sir John Gay Alleyne; a proment Barbadian polician. After his passg, regnn of his mendable work the tate was partially renamed his honour; As such, was at that time that The Mount Gilboa Plantatn changed to The Mount Gay Plantatn - rived om the e of his middle name; as another plantatn already existed at the time unr the name “Mount Alleyne”. Mount Gay, is documented as the olst produced m across the world and began wh jt a pot still hoe veloped on the sugar ne plantatn 1703.

Havg passed through var owners between the 1600s to the 1800s, the entire Mount Gay plantatn was purchased at a later date the early 20th century by Mr Aubrey Ward Frank.

MOUNT GAY – CORNERSTONE OF CARIBBEAN RUM

If you look closely at a bottle of Mount Gay m to this date, you will still fd the signature of Mr Ward, the English/Irish settler to Barbados who was sential turng the Mount Gay Rum brand to the m of Barbados. For over 300 years the Mount Gay Distillery has been distillg this product and has ntuoly enhanced by addg to the range of ms unr the brand.

Mount Gay g var ageg techniqu. The Mount Gay Distillery, bee of s unique velopment of the m beg twice distilled had a level of superry over the other m produced across the island and therefore fetched a greater price.