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

Contents:

• REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM
• MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM REVIEW
• RUM REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL
• MOUNT GAY 1703 BLACK BARREL 1L
• DRK OF THE WEEK: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL
• MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL BARBADOS RUM 1 L
• MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL | 43% | 1 L
• MOUNT GAY

REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM

Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum. To celebrate their 310th anniversary, Mount Gay has stepped to the “black” space (aga) wh Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum, a blend of both aged double distilled pot and sgle lumn distilled ms.

MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM REVIEW

The blend for Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum is weighted heavily towards pot distilled m and is fished a heavily charred ex-bourbon barrel. Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum is nsired to be a replacement for Mount Gay’s earlier Eclipse Black, which was a blend of 100 proof m ag two to seven years. There’s no age statement on the Mount Gay Black Barrel, but s proof is lower at 86, and s lor is much darker than the Eclipse Black.

It’s important to keep the release of Mount Gay Black Barrel perspective, however – a 100 proof m isn’t for everyone, so by lowerg the proof and creasg the barrel impact Mount Gay is taylorg this release towards woog bourbon drkers who may not have much experience wh the m tegory.

RUM REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL

Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum (86 proof / 43% abv, $30) is ep amber lor, and the impact of the heavily charred bourbon barrel uldn’t be much clearer s lor. This strong oak spice pretty much f the Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum experience, and how well you like this m will be greatly pennt on how much you like oak.

Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum don’t hi the fact that is a m for bourbon drkers. At $30, Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum is a ltle pricier than say, Plantatn’s 5 Year Barbados m, but ’s also bigger and bolr. Mount Gay very close to liverg an exceptnal m, but ends up gog a b too far wh the oak agg.

MOUNT GAY 1703 BLACK BARREL 1L

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

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.

DRK OF THE WEEK: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL

Mount Gay m has a history that is closely associated wh sailg and tra. Mount Gay is one of a handful of Caribbean m producers who ntue the tradn of g a double retort distillatn procs for their m, cludg part of the m ed this bottle. Mount Gay Rum.

Mount Gay Rum would be the olst distillery the world, at least that's what Christie's attts by sellg the olst bottl of m the world, datg back to 1780! Mount Gay is said to have begun the first distillatns around 1667. Distilled at Mount Gay, Barba Prented Cover (metal, rton...

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MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL BARBADOS RUM 1 L

Datg back to 1703, Mount Gay is the world’s olst nng m distillery.

Mount Gay’s ms are matured, bottled, and blend on Barbados, and the island’s unique terroir fluenc the productn procs, yieldg rich and flavorful exprsns. In 2019, Tdiann Branker beme the first female master blenr for Mount Gay, markg a new chapter the distillery’s rich history.

Sce takg on the role of Master Blenr, Branker’s ep knowledge of chemistry and passn for makg m have helped her oversee the productn of all of Mount Gay’s blends and exprsns. Branker’s role ensur both longtime m fans and new spirs enthiasts will enjoy Mount Gay’s ms and flavor profil. And among the exprsns not to miss is Mount Gay Black Barrel.

MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL | 43% | 1 L

Mount Gay Black Barrel is distilled tradnal pper pot and lumn stills. Wh Natnal Cocktail Day (March 24) right around the rner, Mount Gay Black Barrel is the perfect spir to celebrate wh. Mount Gay Black Barrel m ¼ oz.

Twist an orange peel over the drk to exprs the cs oils, then e as a more about Mount Gay Rum and explore other cktail recip g Black Barrel on Buy a bottle at. Mount Gay is not only the olst Rum Distillery on the island, is documented to be the olst Rum Distillery the world wh land tle papers stretchg all the way back to 1703. Technilly, the Distillery is pennt, but Rémy Cotre is a majory shareholr of the facily and ntrols the Mount Gay brand — and they do a very good job leavg them alone to create their brand of Caribbean magic.

Mount Gay Black Barrel gets s name om the eply-charred fishg sks. It’s a cross sectn of Mount Gay Rums aged between three and seven years wh more than half of the Spir drippg off double-pot stills and the rt g om the lumn stills. It is often misunrstood that the ltle red star on the image of the island on Mount Gay Rum's origal bottle reprents the lotn of the distilleri, but fact, symboliz the pal of Barbados, Bridgetown.

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In 1757, Sir John Gay Alleyne was elected to the Parliament of Barbados, a seat he held down for the next forty years. The olst survivg ed for the Mount Gay Distillery is om 1703, makg Mount Gay Rum the world’s olst mercial Rum distillery. Mount Gay Black Barrel was new to the UK Market 2014.

More Tradnal Mount Gay drkers bemoaned the addn of this new m. Not only did e plete wh the newer “Mount Gay 1703 Barbados Rum” prentatn but also replaced the Eclipse Black which was bottled at 50% ABV. As well as a re-boot of the prentatn Mount Gay also seem to have got themselv volved some of the marketg sheananigans more mon wh newer bottlers.

However, mt be remembered that Mount Gay are a long tablished giant of the m game and their Extra Old (XO) is for many, a staple of the Bajan style of m alongsi R L Seale’s 10 Year Old. So when Mount Gay put such thgs on their bottl we really mt unrstand that they do know their craft! Mount Gay Black Barrel seems to retail at anywhere between £30 and £45 the UK.