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Mount Gay 1703 Old Cask rum

Mount Gay 1703 Old Cask

Barbados | Aged

Mount Gay 1703 rum includes rums aged between 10 and 30 years that are joined by master distiller Allen Smith.

Mount Gay Distilleries is the oldest operating distillery in the Americas - producing rum in Barbados since 1703, hence the rum's name. 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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133 Mount Gay 1703 Old Cask Ratings

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Belkodil 🇳🇱 | 11 ratings
Posted 7 years ago

If you started, you drink it more and more. Soft, tasty, not too strong in flavor. Be careful not to finish the bottle at once!

AlohaRover 🇺🇸 | 11 ratings
Posted 8 years ago

A gift from a very good friend, and is now on my must have list. I felt it had a small bite. Liked it better on the rocks than straight. Nice aroma

Robert lyman 🇺🇸 | 5 ratings
Posted 8 years ago

This older rum has a whiskey bite but is very enjoyable mixed with cola or on the rocks straight.

Andrew 🇨🇦 | 76 ratings
Posted 8 years ago

Wow this is some good stuff; very smooth.
Nice balance dry and sweet.
I really like the mount gay flavour profile and this is the best

Bryan Gehrett 🇺🇸 | 37 ratings
Posted 8 years ago

If you like the Mount Gay brand you will no doubt enjoy this. I find most of its ratings a bit over done. It was not spectacular, but it is definitely a quality rum.

Beukeboom 🇺🇸 | 304 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

The aroma in the bottle is nice...very nice. I can't really describe it but it is a positive sign. Upon sipping I detect a spicy oak (but very little of the bitterness that sometimes come with oak aging) along with a slight hint of sugar cane sweetness which becomes more apparent in the finish. Not a harsh burn but a pleasant enveloping warmth that flows down the throat before fading. Definitely a sipping rum.

Earl Elliott 🇨🇦 | 236 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

Sugar: 0 gpl. This is an old time kind of rum. There is no sweetness to this rum. It's a dry but very smooth rum and it packs a punch in the mouth kind of heat. The heat fades and you are left with this nice after burn that lasts for quite a while so you can take your time with it. Dominant taste of oak and vanilla with a trace of caramel toffee. This is a well balanced rum and if you are a whiskey drinker this this will be a great rum for you, but I like my rums with a bit more sweetness and some other flavours in addition to the oak and vanilla.

Scott T 🇺🇸 | 122 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

None of the syrupy sweetness to be found in many other "premium aged rums", this is the real thing. All character in this rum is achieved by careful distillation and aging, not by adding sugar.

Robust, leathery, fruity, oakey - but all so well integrated into a complex whole that none seems to jump out, like the voices in an outstanding barbershop quartet.

If you find yourself tiring of the costant parade of rum old fashioneds masquerading as "premium rums", this is one you will want to try. If you don't want to spend the ~$100 or so it will set you back, Mt Gay extra old is not a bad runner up.

Martino 🇧🇪 | 61 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

Decevant part rapport au MG.XO !
Exceptionnellement luminescent, il présente un profond et riche bouquet de chêne, de caramel et de cuir. parfaitement entrelacés avec des notes douces de banane mûre, fruits confits et d'épives douces, fondant lentement dans une longueur persistante et lisse.

Rob 🇮🇪 | 92 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

Nice, unique taste to it. Can identify banana, vanilla and cocos.
Pleasant alcohol burn to it.
After a while this rum became even nicer, changed my score from an 8 to a 9.

Marc Cardinal 🇧🇪 | 399 ratings
Posted over 8 years ago

Compared to the version XO , coffee has disappeared and is replaced by a more complex rum, more robust . Adolescence gives way to maturity and if alcohol is present , there is nothing private in this rum of a certain aromatic richness.