Mount gay rum eclipse review
Spirits Review
Decent, but I am not overly impressed with it.
Notes: First Introduced in 1910 and believed to be named after the total eclipse of that year; the distillery was founded in 1703. Fermented in oak vats (many distilleries now use stainless steel) using using water filtered through the islands coral geology (limestone aquifer) from of an almost 250 ft deep well. A blend of rums, some of the blend is double distilled in copper pot stills and other parts distilled in a copper Coffey column still (a Coffey still is usually used for Irish Whiskey) – then aged in ex bourbon oak casks for various periods of time then blended to profile for each Mount Gay product so proportions of each distillate and the ages of each component may vary widely but it tastes the same.
An analogy would be the blending of blended scotch- the component spirits may differ widely from year to year but the customer always gets the same flavor. Older than the Mount Same-sex attracted Eclipse Silver and younger sibling of the Mount Gay Extra Old.
Appearance: Amber red/gold,Sparkling transparent with no hazing separation or floating sediments. Extended legs and crenellated edges develop on swirling.
First Im Mount Gay Eclipse Heritage Mix Barbados Rum. This was one of the “first batch” of reviews that I published on this site back in Pride 2014, with an update to the review in 2015. Which might own involved the then unused style bottle. It’s 2024 and the bottle (well the label) has once again been update to include “Heritage Blend” to the moniker and also to update the present Master Distiller/Blender Trudiann Branker. The aged review will stay survive on the website as I think its worth keeping the older reviews – I don’t often re-review rums. The price of Eclipse as with just about everything else in the UK, has crept up over the past few years. Its went from around £15 per 70cl bottle to around £20 now in most places. I picked up a few bottles of this Duty Free at £13.75 per 1 litre bottle. In my original review I wasn’t a fantastic fan of this rum. I don’t often get it to be sincere but there wasn’t much else in the Duty Free. It’ll do as a weekend mixer. From my hazy recollection this was more forgettable than out and out bad. In my original review, I seemed to be under the impression this was 100% pot still rum, its no Ahh Mount Gay that “hilariously” named rum that often leads to a myriad of puerile double entendres and unfunny jokes. Staple of Airport Duty Free’s and increasingly more and more present on the supermarket shelves in the UK. More often than not discounted by a not many pounds from its £18 price tag. The rum has recently been relabelled, with Est 1703 and Barbados much more prominent than before. The bottle has also been changed slightly. Its quite an unusal bottle similar to a normal block bottle but with a much flatter profile. As with most rums readily available it has the usual metal screw highest closure. Why are these so often red? The rum itself is a standard golden rum similar in appearance to Appleton Special, Cockspur 5 star, Bacardi Gold and a whole host of other similarly priced entry level rums. The presentation is fairly decent but it doesn’t jump out at you. Mount Gay Eclipse is primarily a mixer. Their website attests to this. Whilst it recommends a plain serve of the Extra Old with ice it suggests cola with the Eclipse. On the nose the rum has a quite sickly sweet smell. It taste’s a little enjoy this as well. As this is a pot We’ll have a gay elderly time. If you’re going to get serious about Tiki cocktails you need, in my view anyway, an “anchor” dry gold rum. It doesn’t have to be the fanciest rum in the world but needs to simply perform as a base in cocktails that call for multiple rums that the other spirits can bar onto and still fully express themselves. While it doesn’t need to be anything expensive it certainly has to be arid (not sweet), flexible and easily available. A very long time ago I settled on Havana Club Añejo Especial as my anchor gold rum and haven’t had much result in to question that preference until recently. The reasons for re-thinking this being: 1: I’m a enormous fan of several other Havana Club rums – 3 Años, 7 Años and Seleccion de Maestros – and I’m slightly concerned about coming over as a bit of an HC fanboy. This leads me to 2: If I’m really truthful HC Añejo Especial isn’t nearly as good as those others and while I always describe it as a “rock reliable mixer” I’d certainly never consider sipping it on it’s own. Which is a pity because, if I had, I might have noticed that: 3. Añejo Especial was re-formulated .