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A sample of Mount Gay Select Blend, a cask-strength rum from Barbados bottled exclusively for The Whisky Exchange. A big and bold rum in a small bottle, aged for seven years and bottled from specially-selected casks, it has strong flavours of tropical fruits and sweet butterscotch. There are also notes of black pepper and ginger, leading to a careful balance between sweet and spicy flavours. Available only at The Whisky Exchange.
This is a 3cl sample from the original bottling of:
Mount Gay Select Blend TWE Exclusive
Style
- Body
- Richness
- Smoke
- Sweetness
Character
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Nutmeg
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Cinnamon
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Apple
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Banana
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Cream
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Toffee
Mount Gay Select Blend Reviews
Tasting Notes
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Tasting notes from Billy Abbott, The Whisky Exchange
Nose: Intense brown sugar, sultana fruitiness and flaky pastry – a Portuguese custard tart filled with raisin jam. Roasted banana notes follow, liberally dusted with cinnamon and nutmeg, with a hints of tarry black liquorice hiding underneath. Then more fruit rolls in: candied peel and stewed apples with lots of sugar and spice.
Palate: Creamy bananas to start – both rich and ripe and dunked in a banana cream pie – with lashings of nutmeg and hot cinnamon. As the heat subsides, the brown-sugar-encrusted pastry from the nose appears, along with sweet banoffee and a touch of balancing barrel-char bitterness. Hints of Juicy Fruit chewing gum sit at the back along with dark liquorice pastilles and rich caramel.
Finish: Sugar and spice, with a touch of musky green leaves and lingering banana – lightly tannic and not quite ripe.
Comment: It's Mount Gay dialled up to 11. Rich, thick, spicy and sweet, with layers of complexity and nuance – a proper sipping rum.
1 Customer Review
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Tried this at the end of the whisky of the year tasting. Absolutely superb stuff. Certainly can hold its own against a whisky of a similar price. Whether its a good price for a rum though I can't be sure.
