Mount Gay XO Extra Old

Banana, caramel and aceton on smell, very velvety, smooth and caramelly on taste, relatively sweet taste. Pretty good!

Update: got a whole bottle for my 30th. Tried it over a longer period, both neat and on ice. Grew to like it more and more. Bumped it up to 8 from 7.

Warm, smooth finish… hint of banana bread. Very good.

This is a nice sipper but falls a little short in excellence. I prefer the Mount Gay Black Barrel to this.

Nice Barbados zipping rum.
I really like this one.

Jummie

Vůně: Lak, citrusy, jablka, rybíz, dub, karamel, vanilka, perníkové koření, vše po čase ve sklenici ještě zintenzivní
Chuť: Ovocná, dubová, karamel, čokoláda
Dochuť: Kořenitá, dřevitá, lehce tabák
Mě tento rum prostě "sedl" :)

I'm going to be a bit controversial here. I had much higher hopes when I bought a bottle of Mount Gay XO in Barbados last year. I actually think the double blend is way tastier (as it has notes of Whisky) while the production process of this one is so overthought that it ends up tasting like a smooth cognac (yeah, with notes of toffee). That's not what I expect from a dark rum to be honest. Kudos to Mount Gay for marketing though. It really is well placed.

A very fine XO rum that will have a fixed place in my cabinet.

komplex , trocken , wenig Süß , feiner Rum.

complex , dry , not very sweet , fine rum.

Was lucky enough to hit the Mount Gay distillery in Barbados... and drank this throughout the whole trip there. The best was hitting a Friday street fair and getting rum and coke from a vendor... a small bottle of XO, a plastic cup with an ice cube, and a can of coke. I ditched the coke.

The most complex rum we've ever had. And the history of attitude was also complicated - from "My God, what did we buy? I won't go blind?" due to the aldehydes of freshly painted lacquer wood at the beginning, to a deep velvety honeyness and dryness of barrel aging after half a year from the bottle was opened.

Refined and strict, like a gentleman's suit, it takes time to develop and a special moment to appreciate.