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Mount Gay Extra Old (often written "OX") is a blend of rums aged between 8 and 15 years in American bourbon barrels.
Mount Gay Distilleries is the oldest operating distillery in the Americas - producing rum in Barbados since 1703. It's original name was Mount Gilboa, and in 1801 renamed Mount Gay after the distillery's manager Sir John Gay Alleyne.
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over 2 years ago
Strong nose, intense oak.
Wooden amd smooked taste with sweet ending.
Posted
over 2 years ago
Doftar vanilj, ek och mild sprit. Inte alls söt men inte heller helt torr. Lite lätt funky fruktsmak av banan och ananas.
Posted
over 2 years ago
Good but not great. Had a good vanilla smell but the taste was too sharp.
Posted
over 2 years ago
My first exposure , As a non-rum drinker was in Barbados and I fell in love! The room is smooth fantastic
Posted
almost 3 years ago
Wow, this is one of the best. A lot of flavour and nicely smooth. Not to sweet.
Go for it!
Posted
almost 3 years ago
A great rum with balanced notes of cigar and vanilla. Oak is present but well balanced. Long pleasant aftertaste that is just addictive!
Drink pure or as suggested on Mount Gay’s website with an coconut water ice cube. Perfect!
Posted
almost 3 years ago
Not overly sweet. We’ll crafted and good value. I bought a second bottle!
Posted
almost 3 years ago
never really liked the mount gay dark, then sipped this XO recently and it's smooth and long after taste. added to collection.
Posted
almost 3 years ago
Good balanced rum. It will go well with a quality Cuban cigar.
Posted
almost 3 years ago
Its not bad at all, maybe not quite my style but you can taste the quality.
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Mount Gay is a quality product to the world of rum. Mount Gay serves a great bridge point to all drinkers. It is not sweet enough to scare away those who prefer earthy/dry spirits (scotch drinkers). It also is not dry/earthy enough to scare away a sweeter preferring drinker. It is the best balance of sweet and dry rum I might ever have. It's characters of the bourbon barrel are very distinguished and give this rum 90% of its characters. The issue with mount gay is the ingredients do not stand out as much as they should. The rum straight is pretty simple in this regard with a little harshness in the back. This is best served with a light amount of cola or ice to get rid of the slight harshness. Mount gay is a great addition to the collection if it is a decision between this or zacapa 23 (2 commonly available top shelves) take this. A perfect analogy of this rum is the good but not best looking girl in the class who happens to be relatively smart and sweet. Is she the knockout with the bold fiesty personality. No, she just prefers to let her quality characteristics sell herself. If mount gay ever got brave and added more boldness to the rum (larger amounts of ingredients per batch ) we could be looking at a perfect rum.