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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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Gareth 🇨🇼 | 93 ratings
Posted almost 9 years ago

its has a nice taste and deep balanced for a very good pricing

Herman 🇺🇸 | 104 ratings
Posted over 7 years ago

Paid $49.99 in NYC. A really nice nose, rich dark color. This is definitely a rum with a fuller body. I read the label and found out it is 43% alcohol, which explains the full body. Not as sweet as the Plantation XO, but quite enjoyable neat.

Cameron 🇺🇸 | 20 ratings
Posted over 7 years ago

Good choice as a daily use, or standby rum. Good nose, smooth on the palate, nice finish. Good sipping rum, or top-shelf mixed drink ingredient. If drinking it neat, I'd recommend letting it breathe 20 minutes or so, brings the scent out more, with less "burn" in the nose.

Titomm 🇨🇦 | 86 ratings
Posted over 7 years ago

Très bon, mais rien d'original. Bon rapport qualité-prix. Bon seul, ou pour mixer.

Very good, but nothing original. Good value for money. Good alone, or to mix.

Nightingale 🇬🇧 | 4 ratings
Posted over 7 years ago

First time I had this I drunk it straight. Very nice. Best one in my cabinet so far, I am most drawn to spiced rums and I really enjoyed this one.

cp 🇨🇦 | 4 ratings
Posted over 7 years ago

My benchmark for any rums, at pretty much any price point (with a few exceptions...). It's a very complex spirit, and only gets better at each experience. Beautful balance between the spiceness and sweetness. Very highly recommended!

Rob 🇺🇸 | 50 ratings
Posted over 7 years ago

You can tell its an well aged high quality rum. One of the dryer rums I have tried. It is not the best i have come across but i prefer it to the overly sweet rums like zaya and plantation xo.

Roenick 🇨🇿 | 13 ratings
Posted over 7 years ago

Well balanced sweetness, taste of molasses and toffee, afterburn okay.

As for almost every rum, let it breathe in the glass. Smell is good.

Mount Gay is the oldest brand of rum produced to date, so I credit a history too.

Ludo Marley 🇳🇱 | 41 ratings
Posted over 7 years ago

Mount Gay Black Barrel Edition 1703, Een zachte en volle rum met rijping op bourbon vaten. Hierdoor een rijke volle iets zoetige dronk, mount Gay Rum is hét alleroudste rum merk ter wereld, de 1e handeling namens het bedrijf brengt ons 3 eeuwen terug naar het jaartal 1703. Tegenwoordig is het een dochteronderneming van Rémy Cointreau en verkoopt men de rum in meer dan 60 landen!

Volle smaken van rietsuiker en een 3 keer gedistilleerde rum maakt een maximale en volle smaak.

Václav 🇨🇿 | 79 ratings
Posted over 7 years ago

Tasted. Nice sweet but stingy taste. Mollase with chocolate taste, with pinch of cinnamon, orange and vanilla. Full rich body. Smell is not very intense. Good for sipper for people who can't decide between stronger and sweeter taste.

Russ 🇺🇸 | 148 ratings
Posted over 7 years ago

This rum goes down very smoothly despite the slightly higher ABV of 43%. It has very nice aftertaste of fruit and wood. If I was going to knock anything at al is I really couldn't detect much of the fruit flavors in the nose but I'm just getting over a cold so that could be the reason for it. While I want rate this quite as high as some of the other rums for Barbados like Four Square it's still a great bargain for the price and will definitely go in my rotation for nightly drams.




Brand Details

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

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