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Mount Gay XO Extra Old rum

Mount Gay XO Extra Old

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Barbados | Aged | 40% ABV

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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747 Mount Gay XO Extra Old Ratings

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Robert 🇳🇱 | 8 ratings
Posted 7 years ago

Mount Gay has a reputation and succeeds fully with these Extra Old edition, the flavors are delicious and consist mainly of lemon and banana with some hints of cocoa and molasses.

Martin 🇸🇰 | 41 ratings
Posted 7 years ago

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piratejabez 🇺🇸 | 322 ratings
Posted 7 years ago

This is a solid, unsweetened sipping rum (just my style). It boasts a lovely bouquet, and a moderately complex flavor profile. It gives me most of what I want in a rum, making it a good everyday sipper or aperitif rum.

My only complaint is that it doesn't bring enough to the table. I'm not quite sure what it needs—more pot-still? more aging? Probably. But the main thing that would benefit this rum in my opinion is less dilution. Mount Gay was on the right track upping the ABV from 40% to 43% for this and their Black Barrel releases, but it's not quite enough. With slightly less dilution, I think Mt. Gay would have hit it out of the park (this is the first such rum I've tried where I've strongly felt this way); as it is, it's just not terribly exciting, and there's little to entice me back rather than try something new.

I'd be interested in their limited cask-strength releases, but they're far too rich for my blood. I think even this XO could also stand to be a few dollars cheaper, but that's just me.

Nabil 🇧🇪 | 25 ratings
Posted 7 years ago

Sweet but barely, very nice, rich and complex rum.

Francois 🇫🇷 | 106 ratings
Posted 7 years ago

Very earthy taste and very smooth, which is very surprising for a rum with no added sugar. I think I get some little notes of chocolate but overly I don't get so much aromas. Yet a 9 for his smoothness.

Finch 🇩🇪 | 16 ratings
Posted 7 years ago

This one is strong and cool. Chocolate, caramell as well as some spice and some leather. Easy to drink and always nice to have.

Mo McGurk 🇺🇸 | 250 ratings
Posted 7 years ago

I may need to sample more, but right now the verdict is that it is okay, but nothing spectacular.

Greg 🇨🇦 | 34 ratings
Posted 7 years ago

Im generally not a fan of Mount Gay rum but this really impressed me. its a must have in my collection

Linus 🇨🇭 | 13 ratings
Posted 7 years ago

I use this rum for my Cuba Libres and ist gives it a nice flavour.

Larry 🇸🇬 | 3 ratings
Posted 7 years ago

coming into rum drinking once i moved to the tropics... as a whisky or cognac drinker, this rum is one of the best if not the best ive had that can be drank neat or on the rocks. like others have said, i think scotch drinkers would appreciate this rum.




Brand Details

Name: XO Extra Old
ABV: 40%
Type: Mount Gay
Raw Material: Unknown
Process: Pure blend (1 distillery)
Distillation: Unknown
Women Led Rum: Yes

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