Mount gay rum eclipse review
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 possess involved the then brand-new 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 antique review will stay inhabit 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 wonderful fan of this rum. I don’t often purchase 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
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 Homosexual 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 alike taste. Older than the Mount Gay Eclipse Silver and younger sibling of the Mount Same-sex attracted Extra Old.
Appearance: Amber red/gold,Sparkling clear with no hazing separation or floating sediments. Long legs and crenellated edges expand on swirling.
First Im 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 few 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 lock bottle but with a much flatter profile. As with most rums readily available it has the usual metal screw superior 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 Antique with ice it suggests cola with the Eclipse. On the nose the rum has a quite sickly sweet smell. It taste’s a little like this as well. As this is a pot We’ll have a lgbtq+ old time. If you’re going to receive serious about Tiki cocktails you desire, in my view anyway, an “anchor” dry gold rum. It doesn’t contain to be the fanciest rum in the world but needs to simply act as a base in cocktails that call for multiple rums that the other spirits can lock onto and still fully express themselves. While it doesn’t require to be anything expensive it certainly has to be dry (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 cause to question that option until recently. The reasons for re-thinking this being: 1: I’m a huge 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 honest HC Añejo Especial isn’t nearly as good as those others and while I always describe it as a “rock strong mixer” I’d certainly never consider sipping it on it’s own. Which is a pity because, if I had, I might hold noticed that: 3. Añejo Especial was re-formulated