Mount gay rum review

Ahh Mount Gay that “hilariously” named rum that often leads to a myriad of puerile double entendres and unfunny jokes. Staple of Airport Duty Free’s and increasingly more and more present on the supermarket shelves in the UK. More often than not discounted by a several pounds from its £18 price tag.

The rum has recently been relabelled, with Est 1703 and Barbados much more prominent than before. The bottle has also been changed slightly. Its quite an unusal bottle similar to a normal exclude bottle but with a much flatter profile. As with most rums readily available it has the usual metal screw highest closure. Why are these so often red?

The rum itself is a standard golden rum similar in appearance to Appleton Special, Cockspur 5 star, Bacardi Gold and a whole host of other similarly priced entry level rums. The presentation is fairly decent but it doesn’t jump out at you.

Mount Gay Eclipse is primarily a mixer. Their website attests to this. Whilst it recommends a straightforward serve of the Extra Old with ice it suggests cola with the Eclipse.

On the nose the rum has a quite sickly sweet smell. It taste’s a little enjoy this as well. As this is a pot

Stunning. Strong marriage of well balanced flavours, terrific nose and a silky accomplish marred ever so slightly by a slight bitterness at the tail cease. A damned worthy entry at the top-end, showing Mount Gay is still a force to be reckoned with in the premium lines.

First posted 28 August 2010 on Liquorature.

Mount Gay. The premier house of rum on Barbados, the oldest rum distillery in the world, and this rum, their premium product, first seen in 2009. I was not entirely enthused with the Extra Old, but here, they include created a petty gem that takes the qualities I liked in the Extra Old, and made almost none of the mistakes; and while it may not entirely beat the snot out of the EH25or the Appleton 30, it is on par with the El Dorado 21, tastes love the Clemente XO, and can quit the field of battle with honour in the company of these exceptional opponents

The top end of their production line was not a part of the Liquorature gathering of August 2010, but because I had just blown the ~$125 on it and wanted to try it in company, I brought it along anyway — it’s get in an occasional thing of mine to bring something high-end to the table when I want the oth

Mount Gay Eclipse Heritage Blend Barbados Rum. This was one of the “first batch” of reviews that I published on this site back in March 2014, with an update to the review in 2015. Which might have involved the then fresh style bottle.

It’s 2024 and the bottle (well the label) has once again been update to add “Heritage Blend” to the moniker and also to update the present Master Distiller/Blender Trudiann Branker.

The old review will reside live on the website as I think its worth keeping the older reviews – I don’t often re-review rums.

The price of Eclipse as with just about everything else in the UK, has crept up over the past few years. Its went from around £15 per 70cl bottle to around £20 now in most places. I picked up a few bottles of this Duty Free at £13.75 per 1 litre bottle.

In my original review I wasn’t a great fan of this rum. I don’t often bargain it to be honest but there wasn’t much else in the Duty Free. It’ll undertake as a weekend mixer. From my hazy recollection this was more forgettable than out and out bad.

In my original review, I seemed to be under the impression this was 100% pot still rum, its no

Mount Gay XO

When I began exploring rums, Barbados Mount Gay XO was one of the first “sipping” rums I explored and studied. This rum was the work of master blender Allen Smith and a enormous steppingstone in my education of the spirit. During 2014, we saw the company get purchased by Remy Cointreau, and many people wondered how the brand would adjust. In 2019, Mr. Smith retired, and Trudiann Branker took over as the company’s master blender, becoming the first woman to clutch the title in the island’s history of rum movie. One of the first rums I was aware she had changed was Mount Gay XO, and I was curious to notice how well it held up to the original fuse that was such an essential part of my rum foundation. The fresh version of XO is a integrate of copper pot and column still rums that are aged between 5 and 17 years in ex-bourbon, American whiskey, and cognac casks. The rum is blended to 43% ABV using water from the estate’s well and bottled on the island for distribution.

Appearance

The 750 ml always reminds me of the old prohibition era apothecary bottles that wer