Mount Gay XO Triple Cask Rum, 70cl
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Or collect from our shop in Brixton Village.
Make it a rum cocktail
The syrups and bitters we use behind the bar. Add one to your order.
An elegant aged Barbados rum, finished in three types of cask. A beautiful sipper.
We stock Mount Gay XO because it shows how refined Barbados rum can be. It's dry, layered and smooth, with no sugary shortcuts. A great gift for whisky and cognac drinkers. It's also a lovely Old Fashioned rum if you want something more refined.
Tastes like: ripe banana, toasted almond, vanilla, dried fruit and oak.
How to drink it:
- Neat: pour 35ml of Mount Gay XO into a tumbler, let it sit for a minute, then add a drop of water if you like
- With a splash of water to open it up
- Old Fashioned: 50ml Mount Gay XO, a teaspoon of sugar syrup and two dashes of Angostura bitters, stirred over ice with a twist of orange
If you like this, try: Mount Gay Black Barrel Double Cask Rum, 70cl (bolder and spicier) · El Dorado 15 Year Old Rum, 70cl (richer Guyanese rum)
At a glance
| Category | Rum |
|---|---|
| Style | Aged |
| Origin | Barbados |
| ABV | 43% |
| Size | 70cl |
| Producer | Mount Gay Rum Distilleries |
| Taste | Rich & oaky, Fruity & tropical |
| Best for | Sipping, Gifting |
| Sweetness | 2 out of 5 (1 is dry, 5 is sweet) |
| If you drink… | Appleton Estate 12, El Dorado 12 |
For the rum nerds
- Made by: Mount Gay, at the northern tip of Barbados in the parish of St Lucy, where the deep well on the estate was first dug in 1703.
- Made from: Barbadian and Caribbean sugar cane, refined into molasses.
- Water: Drawn from coral caverns hundreds of feet underground, filtered by the island itself.
- Fermentation: For the column still rum, a closed fermentation with Mount Gay's own heirloom yeast. For the pot still rum, an open-air fermentation, where breezes carry in wild yeasts.
- Still: A traditional column still and a double retort copper pot still.
- Ageing: A small blend of mature rums aged between 5 and 17 years, in American whiskey, bourbon and cognac casks.
Why it tastes like this: The double retort pot still gives the heavier, fruitier rum, and the column still gives the lighter one. Blending the two, then ageing in ex-whiskey casks, is what gives Barbados rum its balance of fruit, banana and vanilla.
Collect from The Liquor Club, Unit 6, Brixton Village, London SW9 8PR, or order for UK delivery. Not sure it's for you? Pop in and taste with us.