Mount Gay Rum

Contents:

• MOUNT GAY, OFFICIAL RUM OF COWES WEEK
• A WHISKEY DRKER’S TASTG OF FOUR AGED MOUNT GAY RUMS
• FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR: NEW MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE BLACK 100-PROOF RUM
• MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE BLACK 100 PROOF RUM – REVIEW
• REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM
• MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE RUM
• MOUNT GAY: STRETCHG THE ENVELOPE OF RUM EXPRSNS
• MOUNT GAY
• MT. GAY ECLIPSE BLACK RUM

MOUNT GAY, OFFICIAL RUM OF COWES WEEK

Mount Gay Rum.

MOUNT GAY, OFFICIAL RUM OF COWES WEEK.

How to craftMount Gay cktails. While perfectly enjoyed neat, the plex flavours of Mount Gay ms blend exquisely to cktails.

A WHISKEY DRKER’S TASTG OF FOUR AGED MOUNT GAY RUMS

Rum Makg at Mount Gay.

FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR: NEW MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE BLACK 100-PROOF RUM

The birthplace of Mount Gay. Thanks to the folks om Mount Gay Rum, who generoly forward some sampl our way, I was able to nduct an illumatg, four-bottle horizontal tastg om the world’s olst mercial m distillery, wh bottle pric rangg om the affordable ($20) to the nt ($150). Mount Gay Eclipse (Gold).

Note that this tastg we’ve chewed the venerable Mount Gay Silver, which is an unaged m, and skipped straight to the first entry the distillery’s aged seri, Eclipse.

Although I’m often happy to drk bottom-shelf whiskey neat, the thner body and rougher edg of Eclipse ( parison wh the olr bottl om Mount Gay) means I see this stuff as more appropriate for mixg. Mount Gay Black Barrel. No product the Mount Gay lp mak the brand’s marketg and mographic tentns so clear as Black Barrel, which all but screams “I am a m for whiskey drkers.

MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE BLACK 100 PROOF RUM – REVIEW

” This one is fished ed bourbon barrels, and is bottled at a slightly higher strength than the Eclipse, 43% ABV (86 proof)—which is also the proof of Mount Gay XO Rerve and Mount Gay 1703 Master Select. Mount Gay Extra Old (XO) Rerve.

This is where the Mount Gay le starts gettg ser, a blend of ms aged between 8 and 15 years.

Mount Gay 1703 Master Select.

REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM

Mount Gay Eclipse Black 100/SBPR.

Tops among them for me, gettg ved to fancy new m troductns, like the one I went to last night for Mount Gay Eclipse Black 100-Proof Rum. This special soiree was held at the posh and uber-stylish Raleigh Hotel South Beach, where we were honored to b elbows and raise toasts wh such notable m experts as Robert Burr, the man behd the Miami Rum Renaissance Ftival, and Chterfield Browne, Internatnal Brand Ambassador & Mixologist for Mount Gay. That is, unls that new blend happens to be a Mount Gay m.

A Mount Gay employee for nearly 20 years, Browne is famo for creatg one of the most popular Mount Gay Rum cktails, the ‘Bajan Se’, and for turng lns of people all over the world on to the fabulons of Mount Gay Rums.

MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE RUM

In troducg the lastt Mount Gay master work last night, Browne observed that jt like Mount Gay’s regular 80- and 86-proof Eclipse Rums, the new 100-proof Eclipse Black is a blend of distctive Mount Gay ms aged two to seven years. The difference producg the 100-proof blend is that Mount Gay adds ls water to the product.

As Browne explaed, all Mount Gay Rums are blends om two different stills, a tradnal pper pot still and a lumn still. The new Eclipse Black 100-proof employs a larger percentage of distillate om the tradnal pper pot still than other Mount Gay Rums, yieldg a bold flavorful blend burstg rich tropil cs u flavors and pepper spic. I suggt you n out and stock up on a few bottl now before our iends at Mount Gay e to their sens and raise the price!

MOUNT GAY: STRETCHG THE ENVELOPE OF RUM EXPRSNS

So when I stared at the shelv of Willow Park the other day, rolvg to get myself somethg ls pricey, my eye fell on the Mount Gay Eclipse Black 100 proof, which lled to md fond memori of the Cabot Tower 100 proof: and while the Mount Gay was nowhere as dark, 50% is 50% and I snapped up. And while I’m all for tradn, I adm to beg que attached to Mount Gay’s new sleek bottle sign: flatter, taller, simpler.

Mount Gay and other Bajan ms are noted for their banana hts on the nose; this one was no different. Mount Gay is known as the olst m distillery the world – while the pany was formally created 1703 (hence the date on the “1703” m and each and every bottle), m productn has been rerd there at least fifty years prr to that. Owners of Mount Gay over the centuri also had associatn wh the St Nicholas Abbey tate, whose products I have enthiastilly wrten about before.

Overall, I’d have to say ’s a ltle too spicy: both the Favell’s and the Cabot Tower (the only other 100 proof ms currently rince on my shelf) have that power, yet neher tried to stab me que as brazenly: their makers muted the ial stg and subsequent harshns by some subtle alchemy the Mount Gay lacked or never bothered to try workg on.

MOUNT GAY

Yet the Mount Gay Eclipse Black 100 proof is a solid acplishment by any standard, and prov that before Mudlanrs pla too much about the Bajans, the flagships of Demerara Distillers and Banks DIH uld perhaps seek to make a few high-standard overproofs 1 as well. The age is not mentned eher on Mount Gay’s own webse page or the label.

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.

MT. GAY ECLIPSE BLACK RUM

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.