Mount Gay XO Extra Old

Stop! You're killing me...HA HAH ah (hack!) HAH!

That was for those rating this under a 7. This is a real rum. I suspect a tiny morsel of added sugars due to the "smoothness" - a dead give away for tossing sugar cubes into the batch for any rum less than 15 years old - but this an authentic rum, non-Western diabetic marketing concoction bordering on cough syrup.

Tasting notes are not needed. It's a better rum than Abuelo Centuria. MGXO has an almost perfect balance between of dry & sweet, wood and salivation, aged too long and not long enough. If you don't like this, head for the Zaya aisle. If you do, come on over and have a glass you discriminating, sophisticated, demanding drinker, you.

Rum crafting excellence.

very very good rum lots of taste nice with ice or neat fruity a must have

Possibly the finest rum I've had at this price point. Gloriously smooth, brilliant on the nose, and excellent on the throat. Cant believe this is 7.8 rated, its far far beyond that

Wow! Quality in a bottle! Nose: cherry, vanilla and dark chocolate. Palate: not sweet at all, but what a round smooth taste of dark chocolate, pineapple and vanilla. Top notch!

Almost perfect on most levels, great neat or with single ice cube

I know hardly anything about rum I'm just giving it a rating so it shows up in my 'cabinet'. That said, it was very easy to drink. Seemed somehow less flavourful than the Diplomatico RE I had, but also smoother. After drinking this the Diplomatico seemed like it had much more of a burn.

it s a honest non sweetened rum, good neat or in a rum old fashioned !
let sit 10 minutes in the glass to lower the burn at nose, dry, complex nose (a lot of fruits, oak, brown sugar),
in the mouth is dry, warm but 43% ABV is ok, not too much,
it s a rum for whisky drinkers (me too), better than many 10-12 years old single malts i ve tried !

I drank this in Jamaica and have been dreaming about it since!

Treat yourself with a more complex and robust mount gay for those special occasions

Very very very good rum !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!