Mount Gay: Stretchg The Envelope Of Rum Exprsns

Contents:

• FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR: NEW MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE BLACK 100-PROOF RUM
• MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE BLACK 100 PROOF RUM – REVIEW
• MOUNT GAY RUM
• MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE BLACK 100 PROOF RUM
• REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM AND XO RUM (2020)
• A WHISKEY DRKER’S TASTG OF FOUR AGED MOUNT GAY RUMS
• MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE BLACK RUM
• MOUNT GAY 1703 OLD CASK SELECTN
• REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM
• MOUNT GAY: STRETCHG THE ENVELOPE OF RUM EXPRSNS

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

MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE BLACK 100 PROOF RUM – REVIEW

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.

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! 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.

MOUNT GAY RUM

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 ECLIPSE BLACK 100 PROOF RUM

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.

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

The olst licensed m distillery the world, Mount Gay Rum has been ntuoly distilled on the island of Barbados sce over 315 years of knowledge, experience and refement applied to the procs of makg m, our m's plex flavors of banana, almond, mocha and vanilla have been axed om the natural Barbadian gredients and the time spent agg Amerin oak barrels. Cocktail Recip Extra Old Fashned Ingredients 2oz Mount Gay XO Bar spoon of sugar Dash of bters Orange peel Instctns Combe Mount Gay XO Rum and sugar an ice-filled rocks glass and stir until mixed.

Mount Gay Rums Bottle Mount Gay Eclipse Barbados - 40% - Eclipse is the embodiment of the Mount Gay style, body and aroma by which their Master Blenr Tdiann Branker to blend every variety of Mount Gay Rum.

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

Read more Bottle Mount Gay Extra Old 93 Barbados - 43% - A small-batch blend of refully selected mature ms aged 5 to 17 years Amerin whiskey, bourbon and gnac sks.

Read more Bottle Mount Gay 1703 Master Select Barbados- A unique blend of Mount Gay's olst rerv, 1703 Master Select is regnized for s elegance and plexy livered a full body and smooth fish. Read more Bottle Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum Barbados - 43% - Black Barrel is robt and bold crafted om a blend of tense & aromatic ms, aged Amerin whiskey sks and fished for six months eply charred... HomeSpirsRumMount Gay Eclipse Black 100 Proof Rum.

Enjoy Mount Gay Eclipse Black wh tonic water, la or your favore mixer.

MOUNT GAY ECLIPSE BLACK 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. (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). 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 1703 OLD CASK SELECTN

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).

REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM

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. 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. 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: STRETCHG THE ENVELOPE OF RUM EXPRSNS

Mount Gay Eclipse (Gold).