Mount gay rum 1703 xo
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During lockdown I had the pleasure to participate an online tasting with Miguel Smith of Mount Gay and that&#;s where, besides mixing a delicious Old Fashioned, learning about a Coffey Still broken since that has been restored a couple of years ago and termination up purchasing the Mount Gay Pick Blend (more on that here), I tried the modern Mount Gay XO (MGXO) blend.
Mount Gay recently repackaged its whole core range and changed (or upgraded if you&#;d like) the blends for their Inky Barrel (covered that here) and XO. This is all the work of the new Master Blender &#; Trudiann Branker who also released my favourite MG expression so far &#; Mount Gay Pot Still.
While rocking the EST on the label, the new glare is pretty contemporary featuring Barbados in the background and pinpoiting the distillery&#;s location in the north of the island in the St. Lucy parish. There is some information regarding the casks used along with some tasting notes, Trudiann&#;s signature and even a bottle number &#; mine is AP , so I guess it&#;s adj special?
MGXO Triple Cask Blend is molasses b
MOUNT GAY XO TRIPLE CASK
Mount Gay rum first and only successfully was dug in and still operates to this day
This rum is aged in three unlike types of casks: American whiskey casks, bourbon casks and cognac casks. Find a new rum with a spherical and complex flavour profile.
Notes of clove, salted caramel, baked fig and gloomy chocolate. Enjoy on the rocks.
Mount Gay Extra Aged or XO as they seem to have re-branded it. For those in the know Mount Gay Extra Antique is often known as MGXO. The XO notation on the Mount Gay is pretty standard across the rum and spirits industry to denote an aged spirit (without actually noting how old it is!).
As the Mount Gay Distillery is the oldest official distillery in the world established as the label denotes, I don&#;t think we need to verb too much about the heritage and authenticity of the contents of this Extra Old rum.
The more established distilleries use labels such as XO because they cannot guarantee the exact blend of rum&#;s which will be used in every batch of rum produced. Each cask will be different and the skill in making rum &#;uniform&#; comes in the shape of the master blender.
The master blender at Mount Gay is in the shape of Allen Smith who has been with the distillery over 20 years. Again this adds a guarantee as to what you will get in the glass.
Mount Gay contain recently re-branded their bottles and introduced a few unused lines in the shape of Ebony Barrel and a few limited
Mount Gay Rum
Mount Gay has been producing rum since , making it the oldest rum producer in the world. The Mount Gay distillery is located in St. Lucy, Barbados. The company produces a variety of rums, including Mount Gay Eclipse, Mount Gay Extra Old, Mount Gay XO, and Mount Gay Black Barrel. Mount Gay rum has won numerous awards over the years, including the prestigious Grand Prix d&#;Honneur at the International Rum Conference. The Mount Gay Rum Estate sits atop a ridge to the north of Barbados. During the first scant years of the 18th century, the locality was acquired by William Sandford who continued to use it as a sugar plantation. He named his purchase Mount Gilboa. The Mount Gay estate was inherited in by his son, the ironically named, James Sober. During the latter part of the 18th century, both James and his son, Cumberbatch, spent a good deal of time in England, thus they were unable to properly regulate their property. Accordingly, Cumberbatch appointed his partner, Sir John Gay Alleyne, to dominion the estate. Sir John died in and Cumberbatch named the estate, Mount Gay,