Mount Gay Extra Old

Contents:

• MOUNT GAY EXTRA OLD RUM REVIEW
• MOUNT GAY EXTRA OLD BARBADOS RUM
• MOUNT GAY XO (EXTRA OLD) RUM – REVIEW
• REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM AND XO RUM (2020)
• RUM REVIEW: MOUNT GAY XO
• MOUNT GAY RUM
• MOUNT GAY EXTRA OLD
• REVIEW: MOUNT GAY EXTRA OLD
• MOUNT GAY EXTRA OLD RUM

MOUNT GAY EXTRA OLD RUM REVIEW

Mount Gay Extra Old or XO as they seem to have re-brand .

For those the know Mount Gay Extra Old is often known as MGXO. The XO notatn on the Mount Gay is pretty standard across the m and spirs dtry to note an aged spir (whout actually notg how old is!

As the Mount Gay Distillery is the olst official distillery the world tablished 1703 as the label not, I don’t thk we need to worry too much about the herage and thenticy of the ntents of this Extra Old m. The master blenr at Mount Gay is the shape of Allen Smh who has been wh the distillery over 20 years.

MOUNT GAY EXTRA OLD BARBADOS RUM

Mount Gay have recently re-brand their bottl and troduced a few new l the shape of Black Barrel and a few limed edn sk fish edns have also appeared. The new prentatn of the Mount Gay Extra Old Cask Rerve Rum is keepg wh the Eclipse (Mount Gay’s entry level offergs).

Like the Eclipse the MGXO has Mount Gay Distilleri etched to the glass of the bottle, as pictured. In light of my imprsns wh this m I have also cid to revist Mount Gay Eclipse. Of the three ms I found Mount Gay to be the middle terms of u aroma’s.

Tastewise I found the Mount Gay to be very nice and que easy gog spe the 43% ABV. In terms of prentatn is a two horse race between Seale’s odd ball offerg and Mount Gay’s more ntemporary approach.

MOUNT GAY XO (EXTRA OLD) RUM – REVIEW

Mount Gay has been distillg m Barbados for about three centuri, makg one of the olst distilleri the world. The Mount Gay lp rang om a standard silver and amber m to the 1703 Old Cask Selectn. Somewhere the middle li Mount Gay Extra Old.

Mount Gay Extra Old (XO) is a blend of ms aged up to 15 years Kentucky oak. At 86 proof, Mount Gay XO is a really smooth sipper. In keepg wh the island settg, near the begng of "Caso Royale" (2006), Jam Bond orrs not his tramark marti, but a Mount Gay m wh soda.

Rather, mt have been Mount Gay's reputatn for producg premium m tanm wh s distguished pedigree. Produced on the island of Barbados, Mount Gay m was origally named Mount Gilboa. When the plantatn and distillery was hered by John Sober 1747, he appoted Sir John Gay Alleyne, as manager.

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

When Alleyne died 1801, Sober renamed Mount Gay his honor, as there was already a Mount Alleyne on the island. Although not the only m produced on Barbados, Mount Gay is the only one produced large enough quant to be wily exported and well-known.

Mount Gay m is ma om Barbados sugar ne at peak sweetns.

For those who prefer not to sip their m, but to mix wh soda like Jam Bond, Mount Gay Eclipse is a cheaper alternative. Mount Gay Eclipse 750 ml $19.

RUM REVIEW: MOUNT GAY XO

Mount Gay Extra Old 750 ml $40. Mount Gay Rum Punch19 oz Mount Gay Eclipse Rum. Mount Gay Extra Old.

Mount Gay Distilleri Limed, Barbados, Wt Indi. A blend of ms, some of the blend is double distilled pper pot stills and other parts distilled a pper Coffey lumn still (a Coffey still is ually ed for Irish whiskey) - then aged ex bourbon oak sks for var perds of time then blend to profile for each Mount Gay product so proportns of each distillate and the ag of each ponent may vary wily but tast the same. Olst of the Mt Gay le the youngt beg Mount Gay Eclipse Silver and 's olr siblg of the Mount Gay Eclipse.

Bottle/Packagg: Slightly different than the other Mount Gay bottl: 's a b wir and heavy clear glass bottle wh nter style base flask shaped wh round shoulrs and straight neck rembl a sgle barrel bourbon bottle. Rum Review: Mount Gay Extra Old Rum 83.

MOUNT GAY RUM

Evince dated to 1667 dit that there were stills e at the se which would bee the Mount Gay Plantatn. This mak Mount Gay the earlit rerd mercial producer of m the world, and this also mak Mount Gay the olst Rum Brand the world. To highlight their unique place history Mount Gay clus the year 1703 on every bottle of m which they currently produce.

The Mount Gay Extra Old Rum (MGXO) is produced a tradnal style g pper pot stills. As I dited my earlier review of the Mount Gay Silver Eclipse, the Mount Gay Rum Company has a new sleek bottle sign. I am pleased that the closure for the Mount Gay Extra Old Rum bottle is a nice high nsy rk topper.

The Mount Gay Extra Old has a rich pper/bronze lour which upon pourg is already begng to monstrate a rich nose wh a dark molass toffee aroma risg up om the glass. The Mount gay Extra Old packs que a punch of flavour both s livery and s fish. The Mount Gay Extra Old m seems to w an award every time is entered to a m petn.

MOUNT GAY EXTRA OLD

Mixed wh a dash of lemon the m is nice, but when sampled neat or wh ice, and we all preferred to move down the Mount Gay ladr to the Mount Gay Eclipse. Mount Gay Extra Old is rich and plex and my ratg sre reflects this aspect of the m. I tried a few variatns the cktail realm but I found that the Mount gay Extra Old was not an easy m to mix to a cktail or bar drk.

My send suggtn borrows the recipe I nstcted for Mount Gay 1703. I tweaked the recipe a ltle at the suggtn of Stt Parker of Select W who are the importers of Mount Gay Rums my area.

2 Oz Mount Gay Extra Old Rum.

REVIEW: MOUNT GAY EXTRA OLD

However, after havg ntacted Mount Gay’s ctomer service ( France, bee Rémy Cotre has owned the brand sce 1989), I n now tell you that both blends are exactly the same – a batn of 8-15 year old ms – and the bottle on the right is merely a newer, more “premium” sign, which is le wh my observatn that ms are now movg upsle both blendg and sign (see the Elements 8 review if you doubt me).

MOUNT GAY EXTRA OLD RUM

Mount Gay is the m om Barbados that sentially – after tourism, I gus – mak the island’s name. Nicholas Abbey, and though Cockspur is pretty faiar to any Wt Indian (’s had sniggerg rights for s) ’s not so well known outsi the Islands: but you’d be hard prsed to fd someone who hasn’t at least heard of Mount Gay.

The olst ntuoly operatg mercial distillery the wtern hemisphere is not Stland, ’s not the Amerin ntents – is this one, and has the papers to prove : fact, legend has that Mount Gay was distillg m sce the mid 1600s, which would brg a sha behd Bhls, Ireland (so look up).

The signature of their l is banana and almond, the way cs is for Appleton, and the premium offerg is the Mount Gay 1703 Old Cask: what we had for the July 2010 selectn was a few ngs lower – the Extra Old, a mixture of ms eight to fifteen years old (a note here: the kd of the bottle I review is the picture on he left: this is gradually beg replaced wh the sleeker new sign on the right). Extra Old m of any kd has this chet of age and re and love about – onle reviews are almost uniformly posive and fawn over the m as if uld hold them till the Rapture – and while I had wanted to stroke Mount Gay like a favoure t, you’d thk my prr enunters wh other pretently named XOs would have ted me out of this ln: as turned out, I had fotten my lson, and simply got scratched for my trouble. I thk one day I’ll fork out three figur for the 1703 Cask edn om Mount Gay, if some kd purchasg agent for a liquor shop ever gets around to brgg over to this cy of malts: by that time, I’m jt hopg that I’ll have put this rather disappotg experience behd me, so I don’t treat the premium offerg of a four hundred year old distillery wh the same sort of difference that this slightly ls exalted bottle treated me.