Mount Gay XO Extra Old

Smoth taste and rugged finish. Hints of vanilla and spice. Nice long warming finish.

A beautiful peice of rum you can taste the aged syrup like distilled molasses. A great drink!

Nice with an ice cube to mellow out. I noted a caramel toffee aroma and it's very smooth.
I have a sweet palate so this was a bit too much like a scotch for me when sipping but overall a quality rum.

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Fruity nose.
Taste wise I found it to be smooth and easy to drink. Used ice but it really was not needed. Fruitiness and the spice really flows through. Just an awesome rum.
I like the bottle and the new packaging aswell

Had this in an old fashioned in a cocktail bar, prob with to much ice but rum still shone through great rum for price

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.

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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.

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