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Contents:
- REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM AND XO RUM (2020)
- MOUNT GAY XO
- MOUNT GAY, OFFICIAL RUM OF COWES WEEK
- MOUNT GAY VISOR CENTER
- MOUNT GAY SIGNATURE RUM TASTG BARBADOS
- MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM REVIEW
- MOUNT GAY 1703 RUM IS AS COMPLEX AND ENJOYABLE AS YOUR FAVORE WHISKEYS
- MOUNT GAY EXTRA OLD BARBADOS RUM
- MOUNT GAY EXTRA OLD BARBADOS RUM
- THE MOUNT GAY RUM VISOR CENTRE
REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM AND XO RUM (2020)
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MOUNT GAY XO
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MOUNT GAY, OFFICIAL RUM OF COWES WEEK
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MOUNT GAY VISOR CENTER
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Mount Gay’s current master distiller, Tdiann Branker, is the first woman to n thgs the distillery’s history. Followg a five-year apprentichip unr Mount Gay’s prev master distiller, she took on her current role.
MOUNT GAY SIGNATURE RUM TASTG BARBADOS
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Clean and clear Mount Gay Silver is the brand’s entry-level m, but grab while you n, bee ’s beg removed om the Amerin market. Like all tropilly produced spirs, Mount Gay ag nearly three tim as quickly as spirs barrel-aged oler climat. And there’s a whole lot of m agg Mount Gay’s four wareho.
Mount Gay. Mount Gay Eclipse Herage Blend Rum. 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.
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MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM REVIEW
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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).
MOUNT GAY 1703 RUM IS AS COMPLEX AND ENJOYABLE AS YOUR FAVORE WHISKEYS
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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). Mount Gay XO.
When I began explorg ms, Barbados Mount Gay XO was one of the first “sippg” ms I explored and studied.
MOUNT GAY EXTRA OLD BARBADOS RUM
One of the first ms I was aware she had changed was Mount Gay XO, and I was cur to see how well held up to the origal blend that was such an sential part of my m foundatn.
1703 Mount Gay Distilleri” embossed along the ont bottom of the bottle.
When I thk of the origal Mount Gay XO and the new versn, there are ed some big differenc the profil.
MOUNT GAY EXTRA OLD BARBADOS RUM
Sce releasg this product, Mount Gay has released an updated versn of Black Barrel, as well as several other highly limed and unique bottlgs that have garnered the pany que a b of attentn. Consirg the other releas, Mount Gay XO is a proper rnerstone of the le, reflectg Tdiann Branker’s visn for the future of the brand and worthy of the attentn has earned.
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THE MOUNT GAY RUM VISOR CENTRE
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