Also sign me up for newsletters so I can get special offers, recommendations, and expert advice to my inbox! Mount Gay’s current master distiller, Trudiann Branker, is the first woman to run things in the distillery’s history. At The Project we were fortunate to have a very old bottle (purchased 9 years ago) and a new bottle. Karamell tropft im Takt aus leicht getoastetem Holz auf ein mit tropischen Früchten belegtem Toastbrot, ein Lederbeutel mit edlem Tabak dudelt vor sich hin und eine Tafel Schokolade summt dazu.

Finally, there’s the 1703, a blend that varies from year to year and might include 30-year-old rums. During 2014, we saw the company get purchased by Remy Cointreau, and many people wondered how the brand would change. Although the new XO has the characteristic Mount Gay, unsweetened rum flavor of the old XO, this new version has no punch and the flavor sort of dies on the palate rather than linger. Though the distillery’s first Coffey still only dates to the 1970s, other column designs were added to the mix around the time of American Prohibition. Let us know if we need instructions for where to find your house or want us to leave your wine in the shed!The team at Mount Gay strongly suspects production was going on even earlier, and has recently uncovered a deed from 1654 that might seal the case.

However, in my scoring I found personally found a little extra something in the Captain Bligh XO (not even a Bajan but very similar in style).Whether you’re familiar with Mount Gay or not, here’s everything you need to know about a brand that’s been distilling rum for more than three centuries.

Each cask will be different and the skill in making rum “uniform” comes in the shape of the master blender. Nearly two centuries later, the Ward family was the last to live on the distillery grounds before the company was sold to Rémy Cointreau in 1989.As the Mount Gay Distillery is the oldest official distillery in the world established 1703 as the label denotes, I don’t think we need to worry too much about the heritage and authenticity of the contents of this Extra Old rum.

Since releasing this product, Mount Gay has released an updated version of Black Barrel, as well as several other highly limited and unique bottlings that have garnered the company quite a bit of attention.

Früchte, Karamell, Hölzer und Kakao bleiben doch etwas länger, zuletzt bleiben drei Toastkrumen zurück. The distillery currently features four different types of stills: small Spanish and Scottish pot stills, a Coffey column still, which was introduced in the 1970s, and the most recent addition, an Irish column still. Emotionally I feel like giving this a '2', but in fairness, the nose is still very delightful, and the initial 1 or 2 seconds of flavor is quite decent.