Mount gay dark rum

Mount Gay is one of the world’s oldest and most famous rum producers. In John Sober (a bit of irony there) inherited a small distillery in Barbados at the top of Mount Gilboa. He appointed his great friend Sir John Gay Alleyene as the manager, a man whose innovations and achievements were so successful that when he passed away the Distillery was renamed in his honor.

The original artesian well dug in is still in use today, supplying the pure Barbadian water from coral caverns profound below. Mount Gay uses hand-selected sugarcane that is refined into molasses, fermented by a blend of natural open-air yeasts and a special heir-loom yeast developed over the centuries. A double distillation from copper pot stills and an ingenious single-distill column still are then married to create the rum. It ages in up to three types of casks before being blended by Trudiann Branker, Mount Gay’s first female Master Blender, who works with the largest stock of old rums in Barbados.

The Eclipse is crisp and aromatic, the embo

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