Mount Gay XO Extra Old

8:The nose of this Barbados rum is all balance and sweetness. Coconut enters first, followed by the tobacco of a mild cigar. There's thickness. One thinks of a butterscotch or a vanilla crème brûlée. The coconut is always at the forefront, slightly warmed and lightly toasted. The fruit is also worked on: the banana is cooked and the mango stewed.There's more power on aeration, the profile is less buttery, there's no boredom. Now it's the more vegetal, woody side of coconut that comes through, mixed with almond. In this more refreshing dynamic, we return to fresh fruit with more acidity.
8:The palate is not overly sweet, and this is a rum with character. A hint of mango pulp initiates a smooth mid-palate, with full-bodied tobacco and butterscotch. The rum is full-bodied and never alcoholic.
7,5:The finish melts like butter. A caramelized woodiness remains, a sign of fine maturity.

Beautiful to drink, smooth and delicious, a great rum

It really tastes aged. I already liked the cheap mount gay but this is really tasteful

If you don't have much to spend this is the rum you should try at least once

Reading about the Distillery in Modern Carribean Rum, so why not open a bottle of Mount Gay. A combo of fruit and oak with some buttery tones on the nose. The palate shows more fruit than oak. However it is a bit thin, without much body (probably due to coming in at 43 ABV).

Smooth, drink neat with no burn. Delicious! An authentic dark rum to be drunk on its own, perhaps with a single ice cube

I have seen this one on here a lot when searching for the white label Mount Gay XO(technically called “triple cask”) and figured it was not something I’d get the chance to try. Well when showing a friend that I had the never one, they mentioned that they had this one and he was willing to do a trade. This one is smoother(like everyone says) then the triple cask XO and has finish notes or dark red fruits, while staying true to its Barbados heritage and being an unmistakable Barbados terror and flavor

It's very whisky forward? the cask aging really takes control and ild make this as an old fashioned to surprise guests with rum instead. Interesting, not my favorite though.

This is one of my favorites as it's fairly different from the ones that I usually drink. In my opinion, it's not even sweet, has a good woody aroma and has a bit of nice wamth when swallowing. Used to be my sipping rum for laid back evenings.

So the story goes like this - I was still pretty fresh rum sipper and I wanted to treat my self with something "better". At local discount my eyes crossed with something that looked very decent, not toi mention the "XO" sign which I thought was a guarantee of getting really nicely aged rum*. At first the taste was too strong and dry for me, but later I realised that Mount Gay XO is one of my favs!

No strong ethanol smell, amazing pure cane sugar scent, slightly dry, slightly tart in the mouth, but with a soft, pleasant finish. I drunk it solo, but I also added it to cocktails and with that kind of rum any drink was SUPERB.

Definitely it would be a must-have in my cabinet and I'm curious about other Mount Gay rums.