Mount Gay XO - Old vs New - Rum Review

Contents:

• MOUNT GAY RUM
• REVIEW: MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM AND XO RUM (2020)
• 9 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MOUNT GAY RUM
• MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM REVIEW
• MOUNT GAY XO - OLD VS NEW - RUM REVIEW
• REVIEW: MOUNT GAY XO RUM – THE PEAT SMOKE EXPRSN

MOUNT GAY RUM

I did a quick search through the archiv of Malt and realized the one and only review of Mount Gay m was by Mark, last year.

Mount Gay Eclipse is the cheapt of the aged regular offergs. The Mount Gay Black Barrel was released the UK 2014.

The Mount Gay XO Rerve Cask is the premium regular offerg om the distillery. The Mount Gay 1703 is the distillery’s most premium regular offerg. Mount Gay Eclipse – review.

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

Mount Gay Black Barrel – review. Mount Gay XO Rerve Cask – review. Mount Gay 1703 – review.

Mount Gay is wily distributed as John right says, so you might fd a bottle lolly as well. 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.

9 THGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MOUNT GAY RUM

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 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.

MOUNT GAY BLACK BARREL RUM REVIEW

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). If you’ve ever spent time around a mara, chanc are you’re faiar wh Mount Gay, a m that striv to mata a ep relatnship wh the sailg muny.

Whether you’re faiar wh Mount Gay or not, here’s everythg you need to know about a brand that’s been distillg m for more than three centuri.

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MOUNT GAY XO - OLD VS NEW - RUM REVIEW

20, 1703, Mount Gay is the olst ntuoly operatg mercial m producer the world.

The team at Mount Gay strongly spects productn was gog on even earlier, and has recently unvered a ed om 1654 that might seal the se. Today, Mount Gay produc the majory of Barbadian m that is exported globally.

REVIEW: MOUNT GAY XO RUM – THE PEAT SMOKE EXPRSN

Back 1747, John Sober purchased the plantatn and distillery that would e to be known as Mount Gay. That name me om Sober’s iend, Sir John Gay Alleyne, who would eventually manage the m bs.

That means the island has lots of unrground water, a key element what mak Mount Gay unique and why the Brish cid to foc sugarne and m productn here the 17th century.

Hundreds of years ago, Mount Gay uld rely on the molass om lol sugar ne for all of s needs, but that’s no longer the se as there simply isn’t enough available land anymore. Mount Gay -ferments lol and imported molass.