Mount gay rum 1703 old cask selection
Review: Mount Homosexual Rum Old Cask Selection
We’ve reviewed most of the Mount Gay lineup, but have finally gotten our mitts on the top of the line: Mount Gay Old Cask Selection.
This rum is produced in accordance with the Barbados distillery’s typical methods — aged molasses is distilled using two different techniques, then the rum is put into casks. is a selection of a variety of casks at a variety of ages, some up to 30 years old.
The fallout is a blended rum that exudes complexity. The nose is strong with wood and vanilla notes, so hefty you’d be excused if you idea this was nice bourbon based on the aroma. But the first style offers that telltale rum sweetness, a rush of sugar that is instantly tempered by so much wood that it feels love you’ve woken up in a lumberyard.
As things mellow out in the glass, reveals it to be less sugary than many decent old rums, and more balanced with those wood, candylike dessert, and emerald vegetable notes — characteristics which actually work pretty skillfully rather than detracting from the overall effect. W
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Review: Mount Gay Rum Old Cask Selection /
a review by Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf)
Posted April 18,
is the year that the Mount Gay Rum was first produced on the Isle of Barbados, making Mount Gay Rum one of the oldest, if not the oldest brand of rum in the world. Because Barbados is situated as a gateway from the Atlantic to the Caribbean, sailors from the Old World often used the island as the first resting point on the way to the New World. This meant Barbados was ideally suited for trade between the two worlds in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Part of that trade was rum which is why the island is rightfully considered the birthplace of the rum trade.
The Mount Gay Rum is a premium blend which features aged rum stocks from selected barrels of the Mount Gay cherished reserve. These barrels acquire been aged 10 to 30 years and movie the best that Mount Gay has to extend in the areas of Craftsmanship and Quality.
In the Bottle 5/5
The Mount Homosexual arrives in a slick oval decanter style bottle with a brushed metal capped cork topp
Spirits Review
Proof that rum can be as good as any other spirit.
Notes: Named after the year the distillery was founded (). This is Mount Gays premium rum. A blend of minimum 10 year elderly to 30 year antique rums blended to exhibit off their best product. Fermented in oak vats (many distilleries now employ stainless steel) using using water filtered through the islands coral geology (limestone aquifer) from of an almost ft deep well.
Some of the blend is double distilled in copper pot stills and other parts distilled in a copper Coffey column still (a Coffey still is usually used for Irish whiskey) &#; then aged in ex bourbon oak casks for various periods of time then blended to profile. This is the oldest (but newest edition to their line) of the Mt Gay line the youngest being Mount Male lover Eclipse Silver, an older sibling of the Mount Gay Eclipse, and the former oldest Mount Lgbtq+ Extra Old.
Appearance: Lovely red / gold, or patinated bronze. Sparkling clear with no hazing separation or floating sediments. Crenellated edges develop on swirling with long legs developing very slowly.
Stunning. Strong marriage of well measured flavours, terrific nose and a silky finish marred ever so slightly by a slight bitterness at the tail end. 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 on Liquorature.
Mount Gay. The premier home of rum on Barbados, the oldest rum distillery in the world, and this rum, their premium product, first seen in I was not entirely enthused with the Extra Old, but here, they have created a small 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 like the Clemente XO, and can quit the field of battle with honour in the company of these exceptional opponents
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