Rum Review: Mount Gay Black Barrel – Thirty-One Whiskey

Contents:

• REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM AND XO RUM (2020)
• RUM REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL
• MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL DOUBLE CASK BLEND RUM

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

Mount Gay Rum | Black Barrel. 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. 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).

RUM REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL

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). Beyond the nce of s aromas, Mount Gay Black Barrel remas uy and bold taste and livers a eply toasty fish.

MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL DOUBLE CASK BLEND RUM

Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum.

So now I’m workg my way through some of the more popular labels, and the Mount Gay Black Barrel is near the top of that list. While the olst rerd of the distillery n date back to a ed 1703 (which allows to claim the tle of the olst operatg m distillery the world), the distillery is named for the much more recent owner Sir John Gay Alleyne, who purchased the facily 1747 and ran until his ath 1801.

Durg his life, Sir John Gay Alleyne served as a member of the Barbados Parliament, which he was elected Speaker, and was one of the most fluential voic to speak out agast the practice of slavery.