Review: Mount Gay Master Blenr Selectn – The Port Cask Exprsn - Drkhacker

Contents:

• MOUNT GAY PORT CASK EXPRSN
• REVIEW: MOUNT GAY MASTER BLENR SELECTN – THE PORT CASK EXPRSN
• THE MOUNT GAY PORT CASK EXPRSN WILL STRETCH RUM’S BOUNDARI
• MOUNT GAY: THE PORT CASK EXPRSN
• MOUNT GAY PORT CASK EXPRSN - THE MASTER BLENR COLLECTN RUM
• MOUNT GAY PORT CASK EXPRSN RUM
• MOUNT GAY MASTER BLENR COLLECTN: THE PORT CASK EXPRSN PH BOUNDARI FOR THE BARBADOS DISTILLERY
• MOUNT GAY THE PORT CASK EXPRSN

MOUNT GAY PORT CASK EXPRSN

Mount Gay Rum | The Port Cask Exprsn.

Bottled at sk strength (55% abv), Mount Gay: The Port Cask Exprsn is non-chill filtered orr to prerve s rich aromas and prec natural lour and will be limed to 6, 570 bottl around the world. For everyone keepg track at home, we’re now on the third release of Mount Gay’s Master Blenr Collectn.

REVIEW: MOUNT GAY MASTER BLENR SELECTN – THE PORT CASK EXPRSN

“For this exprsn, I wanted to take our m makg to another level and utilize a sk that we don’t typilly work wh at Mount Gay, while still remag te to over 300 years of brand herage. While port-fished ms are poppg up here and there, this is the first time Mount Gay’s history that they’ve ed Port sks for agg. At sk strength, there’s still that classic Mount Gay dryns and spice, spe the sypy and sweet Tawny addn.

Mount Gay Master Blenr Selectn – The Port Cask Exprsn.

One om a favoure distillery of me this time – Mount Gay.

THE MOUNT GAY PORT CASK EXPRSN WILL STRETCH RUM’S BOUNDARI

Sober brought on Sir John Gay Alleyne to manage the se – “Alleyne troduced new stras of ne, improved crop yield and enhanced the productn procs, novatns so signifint that on his ath 1801, the Sobers named the tate for him. Fast forward to 1858 and the distillery was purchased by the Thornhill fay, wh the view of makg Mount Gay the pre-ement Bajan m.

In 1918 the now 368 acr of land on which the distillery sat was purchased by one Aubrey Fz-Osbert Ward, scn of the Ward fay and subsequent -founr of Mount Gay Distilleri Ltd, the bottlg and blendg pany which was setup Bridgetown (the Bajan pal) to allow m to be sold by the distillery whilst not nng afoul of the laws signed to prevent this Aubrey Ward’s ath, his stake the bottlg pany passed to 2 of his children, Lisle and Darnley.

MOUNT GAY: THE PORT CASK EXPRSN

Today’s review, gettg back to the topic of this post, is of Mount Gay’s latt stallment the Master Blenr Collectn, the Port Cask exprsn.

MOUNT GAY PORT CASK EXPRSN - THE MASTER BLENR COLLECTN RUM

The last release, the Pot Still exprsn, is one of my all time favoure ms, so to say I’ve got high hop would be an Master Blenr beg referred to is Tdi-Ann Branker, who took over om her precsor, Allen Smh after a 3 year apprentichip at Mount Gay after jog as a qualy assurance manager 2014.

There’s dry oak and gger (characteristilly Mount Gay to me) wh dark cholate, movg to cherry, dried sultanas, orange zt and some h apple for me. Not: This is a really good release om Mount Gay and, whilst ’s not as eye-openg as their last the Master Blenr llectn (for me), that’s not to say isn’t worth your time, particularly if your m preference ns to the ls ‘uy’ end of the spectm.

Mount Gay Port Cask Bottlg Note. This exprsn om Mount Gay's Master Blenr Collectn brgs together m distilled a lumn still aged entirely tawny Port sks wh ms om pot stills ially aged Amerin whiskey sks before beg fished tawny Port sks too! Bottled at sk strength (55% abv), Mount Gay: The Port Cask Exprsn is non-chill filtered orr to prerve s rich aromas and prec natural lor and will be limed to 6, 570 bottl around the world.

MOUNT GAY PORT CASK EXPRSN RUM

Mount Gay History: Every great story begs wh a time and a place. For Mount Gay Rum that time and place is the Caribbean Island of Barbados 1703. The abundance of molass bed wh the culary genuy of early settlers and, of urse, their legendary thirst for alhol lead to this unique disvery the productn of spirs:Sir John Gay was a rpected lear and bsman who worked tirelsly service of the island of Barbados.

A iend of Sir John Gay’s, the ntrarily named John Sober, hered a then-unknown distillery and had asked for Sir John’s help managg . Sir John Gay took quickly to the bs of makg m. He refed the distillatn procs and began producg a noticeably superr product that we know today as Mount Gay Rum.

When she arrived at Mount Gay 2011 as Qualy Assurance Manager, she was certaly not thkg that she would one day take the helm as the first female Master Blenr of Mount Gay distillery, the olst ntuoly nng m distillery operatg sce 1703.

MOUNT GAY MASTER BLENR COLLECTN: THE PORT CASK EXPRSN PH BOUNDARI FOR THE BARBADOS DISTILLERY

She embodi a natural cursy, diligence and great profsnalism that guarante a prospero future for Mount Gay. Tdiann’s pure enthiasm giv her the sire to create, explore new ias, and tablish a productive dialogue that is le wh Mount Gay’s ambn for many years to e. One of my favoure m producers, Mount Gay, has produced a limed edn Port Cask Exprsn.

It is non-chill filtered and unloured and is the first time that Mount Gay have ed ex-Tawny Port sks for maturatn. Mount Gay Port Cask Exprsn is a Sgle Blend Rum: A blend of pot still and tradnal lumn still. Contaed wh is Mount Gay’s now faiar bottle shape – a flask type wh an elongated neck.

MOUNT GAY THE PORT CASK EXPRSN

Mount Gay Port Cask Exprsn Label.

Mount Gay m….. One has to wonr if Mount Gay have been heavily fluenced by the succs of neighbourg Foursquare distillery who equently e different typ of barrels, cludg ex-we typ, to age ms. That said, if Foursquare n turn out Exceptnal Cask Selectn XIV “Détente” (Detente) at 51% for £60, Mount Gay’s £110 for 55% is pricey.