Mount Gay Black Barrel Small Batch Handcrafted Rum Review

Contents:

• REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM AND XO RUM (2020)
• MOUNT GAY IS REPLACG BLACK BARREL AND XO WH NEW BLENDS
• RUM REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL
• MOUNT GAY XO - OLD VS NEW - RUM REVIEW
• MOUNT GAY® XO AND MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL®
• MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM
• MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL DOUBLE CASK BLEND RUM
• MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM REVIEW
• A WHISKEY DRKER’S TASTG OF FOUR AGED MOUNT GAY RUMS
• REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM
• MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL REVIEW
• RUM REVIEW: MOUNT GAY XO

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

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 IS REPLACG BLACK BARREL AND XO WH NEW BLENDS

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.

RUM REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL

Let’s taste (cludg a parison agast a 2008 vtage bottle of Mount Gay Extra Old).

MOUNT GAY XO - OLD VS NEW - RUM REVIEW

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 AND MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL®

Mount Gay XO Rum (2020). Mount Gay Rum | Black Barrel.

MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM

Mount Gay's New Eclipse and Black Barrel.

“It is an honour to be at the foreont of the excg chang that Mount Gay will see 2020, and I’m proud not only to be the first female master blenr Barbados but to be part of the team that will take Mount Gay om strength to strength, ” Tdiann Branker, Mount Gay Master Blenr said a prepared statement.

MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL DOUBLE CASK BLEND RUM

Mount Gay Black Barrel. Mount Gay’s Black Barrel will be replaced wh a new blend that utiliz olr ms. Mount Gay Rum at a Tastg San.

MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM REVIEW

Mount Gay XO. From April 2020, Mount Gay’s new Black Barrel blend and s enriched XO blend will be on shelf throughout all markets and global travel retail. 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. Mount Gay m has a history that is closely associated wh sailg and tra.

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

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 XO is somewhat of an stutn the m world.

REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM

Dpe that, I remember thkg that Mount Gay XO was one of the bt ms I had ever had when I first tried . Sce that moment 2007, I’ve always had a bottle of Mount Gay XO my m bet.

MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL REVIEW

But one of my very likely answers is Mount Gay XO. He started workg at Mount Gay 1991 and retired 2019.

It’s very clear that the master blenr posn changed hands, as there is a noticeable difference the general taste profile at Mount Gay. NosgNew Mount Gay XOHeavenly bo of u and oak, old barn wood, hay, marzipan, buttery, m n rais ice-cream, tobac. Old Mount Gay XOOak, vanilla, light bber, burnt oak is wonrful, ramel, raiss, cholate, bakg spic.

PalateNew Mount Gay XOOak, vanilla, tobac, light nut and a ton of u.

RUM REVIEW: MOUNT GAY XO

Old Mount Gay XOA lot more wood spice. ConclnI’ve been drkg Mount Gay XO for a very long time and am therefore very faiar wh the taste profile. At that price level I would have ntued buyg Mount Gay XO like I always have.

SrOld Mount Gay XO – 82New Mount Gay XO – 79Click here for on the srg method. Here are 10 of the bt m—and rhum agrile—brands, all styl, to drk this GayBarbados’s Mount Gay has been around one form or another for about 300 years, but master blenr Tdiann Branker has only held her tle at the distillery for a ltle more than a year. Last year, Branker ntributed her first Master Blenr Collectn exprsn lled Mount Gay Pot Still Rum, which was only distilled pot stills, stead of the ual batn of pot and lumn stills.