Mount Gay XO Triple Cask Blend Rum | Master of Malt

Contents:

• REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM AND XO RUM (2020)
• MOUNT GAY XO TRIPLE CASK BLEND RUM
• MOUNT GAY XO - OLD VS NEW - RUM REVIEW
• BOOZE HOUND APPROVED: MOUNT GAY XO
• MOUNT GAY XO TRIPLE CASK BLEND
• MOUNT GAY XO
• MOUNT GAY XO RERVE CASK RUM
• MOUNT GAY IS REPLACG BLACK BARREL AND XO WH NEW BLENDS
• MOUNT GAY

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

Mount Gay Rum | XO. 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 XO TRIPLE CASK BLEND RUM

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 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 Rum (2020). Mount Gay Rum | XO: Peat Smoke Exprsn. To produce this unique batch of only 6, 120 bottl, Allen Smh, the former Mount Gay Master Blenr, refully selected and bed lumn and spot still ms; matured for 8 to 15 years Amerin oak barrels.

Try a Mount Gay XO Triple Cask Sample... Mount Gay XO Triple Cask Bottlg Note. Another tasty exprsn om Mount Gay, XO Triple Cask Blend is a blend of pot and lumn still ms.

BOOZE HOUND APPROVED: MOUNT GAY XO

Although the new XO has the characteristic Mount Gay, unsweetened m flavor of the old XO, this new versn has no punch and the flavor sort of di on the palate rather than lger.

MOUNT GAY XO TRIPLE CASK BLEND

It's like the Mount Gay Eclipse, but not available Morrisons and so much better. Top qualy, tasty drk, as one would expect om Mount Gay. Mount Gay XO is somewhat of an stutn the m world.

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 XO

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.

MOUNT GAY XO RERVE CASK RUM

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.

Mount Gay Extra Old or XO as they seem to have re-brand . For those the know Mount Gay Extra Old is often known as MGXO.

MOUNT GAY IS REPLACG BLACK BARREL AND XO WH NEW BLENDS

The XO notatn on the Mount Gay is pretty standard across the m and spirs dtry to note an aged spir (whout actually notg how old is! As the Mount Gay Distillery is the olst official distillery the world tablished 1703 as the label not, I don’t thk we need to worry too much about the herage and thenticy of the ntents of this Extra Old m.

The master blenr at Mount Gay is the shape of Allen Smh who has been wh the distillery over 20 years. Mount Gay have recently re-brand their bottl and troduced a few new l the shape of Black Barrel and a few limed edn sk fish edns have also appeared. The new prentatn of the Mount Gay Extra Old Cask Rerve Rum is keepg wh the Eclipse (Mount Gay’s entry level offergs).

Like the Eclipse the MGXO has Mount Gay Distilleri etched to the glass of the bottle, as pictured.

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In light of my imprsns wh this m I have also cid to revist Mount Gay Eclipse. Of the three ms I found Mount Gay to be the middle terms of u aroma’s.