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Mount Gay
Distillery

Mount Gay

8.0/10 (3,246 reviews)

  • Oldest rum brand, since 1703
  • Pot and column still blends
  • Last Ward cask-strength releases

Top rated Velier Mount Gay Last Ward Barbados (Pure Single Rum) 2007 8.6/10 (110 reviews) · bottles with 30+ ratings Compare bottlings ›

Mount Gay is the oldest documented rum distillery site still at work, with records on its St. Lucy estate going back to 1703. Three centuries on, it is still the benchmark for classic Barbados rum, from the everyday Eclipse to the refined XO.

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107 bottlings, 34 of them available, prices from 40 partner shops. As of October 2026.

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Mount Gay XO - Triple Cask Blend

Mount Gay XO - Triple Cask Blend
Mount Gay
Mount Gay XO - Triple Cask Blend
7.8/10 (457 reviews)
Barbados · 17 years · 43%
Vanilla · Caramel · Oak
54.19 €
incl. shipping · 63.20 € per litre
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Mount Gay Black Barrel

Mount Gay Black Barrel
Mount Gay
Mount Gay Black Barrel
7.0/10 (227 reviews)
Barbados · 43%
Vanilla · Alcoholic · Caramel
39.80 €
incl. shipping · 49.86 € per litre
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Mount Gay Eclipse

Mount Gay Eclipse
Mount Gay
Mount Gay Eclipse
6.5/10 (200 reviews)
Barbados · 2 years · 40%
Vanilla · Caramel · Alcoholic
28.85 €
incl. shipping · 31.29 € per litre
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Mount Gay S.B.S Barbados 2000

Mount Gay S.B.S Barbados 2000
S.B.S
Mount Gay S.B.S Barbados 2000
8.0/10 (40 reviews)
Barbados · 20 years · 53.2%
Vanilla · Tropical fruits · Caramel
195.60 €
incl. shipping · 258.00 € per litre
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What is the best rum from Mount Gay?

Among rums with at least 30 ratings, Velier Mount Gay Last Ward Barbados (Pure Single Rum) 2007 leads with 8.6/10 from 110 ratings. The most rated is Mount Gay XO - Triple Cask Blend with 7.8/10 from 457. The 107 bottlings with a known strength range from 40 to 69.1% ABV; half of them sit between 43 and 55.6%.

BottlingAgeABVRatingPriceincl. shipping
Velier Mount Gay Last Ward Barbados (Pure Single Rum) 2007 Pot Still Rum16 years · 60%16 years60%8.6/10 (110 reviews)248.34 €
320.49 € per litre
Bedford Park Mount Gay Single Barrel Barbados Rum (Saint Michael) 2001 24 years · 49,4%24 years49,4%8.6/10 (17 reviews)not available
Mount Gay Master Blender Collection The Madeira Cask Expression 2015 Column Still Rum6 years · 55%6 years55%8.5/10 (48 reviews)not available
Mount Gay Master Blender Collection The PX Sherry Cask Expression Pot & Column Still Rum1–20 years · 45%1–20 years45%8.5/10 (46 reviews)249.00 €
355.71 € per litre
Mount Gay Black Barrel Cask Strength 66%—66%8.5/10 (23 reviews)not available
Habitation Velier Mount Gay Last Ward 2009 Pot Still Rum9 years · 59%9 years59%8.4/10 (107 reviews)133.80 €
156.86 € per litre
Mount Gay Master Blender Collection - Port Cask Expression Pot & Column Still Rum1–14 years · 55%1–14 years55%8.4/10 (87 reviews)not available
Velier Mount Gay Elliott Erwitt (Magnum) 2007 14 years · 60%14 years60%8.4/10 (36 reviews)403.07 €
260.11 € per litre
Mount Gay Single Estate Series Release 25 | 04 | Vt19dp 2019 5 years · 55%5 years55%8.4/10 (14 reviews)348.90 €
498.43 € per litre
Velier Mount Gay Warren Khong Mount Gilboa 2008 Pot Still Rum9 years · 66%9 years66%8.3/10 (105 reviews)187.06 €
245.87 € per litre
Mount Gay Single Estate Series Release 23 | 01 | Bn_Qa 2017 Pot Still Rum55%—55%8.3/10 (74 reviews)366.08 €
522.97 € per litre
Mount Gay Single Estate Series Release 24 | 02 | Vt18d2 2018 Pot Still Rum6 years · 55%6 years55%8.2/10 (36 reviews)316.50 €
427.14 € per litre
Mount Gay Master Blender Collection (The Coffey Still Expression) 2019 4 years · 58%4 years58%8.2/10 (33 reviews)192.50 €
250.00 € per litre
Mount Gay XO - Triple Cask Blend Pot & Column Still Rum17 years · 43%17 years43%7.8/10 (457 reviews)54.19 €
63.20 € per litre

25 of the 48 bottlings with at least 10 ratings are listed here; the rest are in the catalog above.

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Mount Gay Black Barrel or Mount Gay XO - Triple Cask Blend?

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Mount Gay Black Barrel 39.80 €incl. shipping · 49.86 € per litre Mount Gay XO - Triple Cask Blend 54.19 €incl. shipping · 63.20 € per litre

Of 84 people who rated both, 67 gave Mount Gay XO - Triple Cask Blend the higher score, 11 gave it to Mount Gay Black Barrel.

  • 11Mount Gay Black Barrel higher
  • 6same score
  • 67Mount Gay XO - Triple Cask Blend higher

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Is Mount Gay rum good?

The median score is 8.0, which means “Very good”. 87% of ratings are good or better, 1% are below average.

Distribution of all 3,246 ratings across 107 rums
  • 9Excellent 5%
  • 8Very good 49%
  • 7Good 33%
  • 6Pleasant 9%
  • 5Average 2%
  • 4Drinkable <1%
  • Poor or worse <1%

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Flavour profile of Mount Gay

Flavour profile of Mount Gay
Top aromas · nose & palate
Vanilla64%
Woody58%
Caramel44%
Roasted · palate only31%
Fruity · nose only30%
Spicy · palate only28%
Oak · palate only27%

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What tasters say about Mount Gay

Solidfunk
Solidfunk Oct 2026
Romdeluxe Mount Gay Wild Series Rum Barbados No. 22 (Magnum) BMMG 2001
9.0/10

Plum, caramel and coconut. Some oak. Pours dark golden. Some fermented banana in the mouth that comes on really nice. Warms up the palate. A bit of gasoline in here. Really nice, and maybe the best Mt Gay I've had in my relatively limited experience with them. Long finish. Bottle …

Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰 Aug 2026
Mount Gay Exceptionally Aged 15 Years
8.0/10

#7227 29.08.2026 VIP tasting at the German Rum Festival 2026. Surprisingly good rum with a pretty OK pice tag in my mind. My quick notes while tasting. Polish, fruits, coconut, orange, woody, roasted, spicy, naturally sweet, caramel, chocolate.

DutchRumPirate
DutchRumPirate Jun 2026
Dugas Mount Gay La Maison du Rhum Discovery Rhum Vieux Barbade
7.0/10

Soft, friendly Barbados rum, typical Mount Gay notes. Spicy on the nose. Gets going a bit on the palate and then falls back quickly. Decent rum, but less than I am used to from Mount Gay.

Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰 Jun 2026
Mount Gay Select Blend of Matured Rums (TWE Exclusive)
8.5/10

#6888 04.06.2026 Home early today because I started early at work today following one of our gardeners. Watching Spider-Noir on Amazon Prime. This is a very nice release with a pretty good price tag in my mind. A very fruity rum with nice olive, spice, light polish and …

Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰 Jun 2026
TBRC Mount Gay Secret Distillery #7
8.0/10

#6885 03.06.2026 Bike training done and the wife is in Aarhus to attend a Japanese Event, which makes it possible for me to just hang back and relax with some samples. Watching Spider-Noir on Amazon Prime. A very nice rum with an OK price tag in my mind. An intenser provile …

Tim
Tim Apr 2026 Auto-translated
Mount Gay Master Blender Collection - Andean Oak Cask
8.5/10

A beautiful nose that gets off to a strong start: harmonious, very fruity and herbal with a clear honey note. Unfortunately a little unbalanced in the mouth and finish, a touch too bitter and sour. However, very intense despite only 48%, which I found positive. All in all, a good …

Frank
Frank Mar 2026 Auto-translated
Mount Gay Single Estate Series Release 25 | 04 | Vt19dp 2019
8.5/10

Only 5 years old, naturally tropical, quite full-bodied and round. Very fitting alcohol content. Very expensive, but also very tasty. Nose: voluminous, elegant and oily-soft. Caramel-woody with lots of fruit. Dried apricot, black currants as well as gooseberry but also oak, …

abaker-rum
abaker-rum Top voice Nov 2025
Mount Gay XO - Triple Cask Blend
7.5/10

There is not a ton to say about this rum, it is solidly execute with classic caramel, vanilla, and oak notes throughout. There is a lot of coconut on the nose, and the finish is fairly short. A solid expression that doesn’t stand out.

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Mount Gay Black Barrel

Mount Gay Black Barrel
Mount Gay
Mount Gay Black Barrel
7.0/10 (227 reviews)
Barbados · 43%
39.80 €
incl. shipping · 49.86 € per litre

Mount Gay in numbers

Mount Gay in the community's collections

4,738 bottles logged in tasters' collections, including opened and emptied ones.

+270 additions in the last 3 months.

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Mount Gay vintages

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  1. 0:00 Planteray XO vs. Mount Gay XO
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  6. 5:49 Foursquare and Doorly’s
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  11. 10:23 Rockley: honey, wax and smoke
  12. 10:38 Hogo Monsta: funk from Barbados
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RumX Guide

Mount Gay, explained

What is the difference between Eclipse, Black Barrel and XO?

Eclipse is the light, mixable everyday rum, Black Barrel is bolder and double-matured, and XO is the older, richer sipping expression. The RumX community describes Eclipse as light, with vanilla and caramel, and the XO as round, with vanilla, caramel, oak and dark chocolate. Start with Eclipse to learn the house style, step up to the XO for depth, and then look at the limited Master Blender Collection and the Velier-bottled Last Ward, which the community finds herbal and minty. One distillery, a full path from first pour to collector's shelf.

What type of rum is Mount Gay?

Mount Gay is a classic Barbados blend of pot-still and column-still rum, made from molasses. The molasses is fermented and distilled on four double-retort pot stills and a copper Coffey column, then aged in the tropical heat, mostly in ex-bourbon barrels. The two distillates mature separately and the master blender marries them. For 2019/20, Mount Gay put the share of its molasses from Barbados, its own fields included, at around 20%.

Is Mount Gay the oldest rum in the world?

Mount Gay is the oldest documented rum distillery site still at work: a deed of sale from 1703 lists "two stone windmills, one boiling house with seven coppers, and one still house" on the estate. That is proof rum was being made on this land more than 320 years ago, and that long heritage is why many people treat Mount Gay as the home of rum. The brand itself is younger than the site: Eclipse, the everyday bottle, goes back to 1910.

Who owns Mount Gay?

Rémy Cointreau has owned the Mount Gay brand since 1989 and the distillery since 2014. For most of the 20th century the estate was shaped by the Ward family, who bought it in 1918 and built it into an international brand. In recent years Rémy has invested heavily, reviving a 1940s copper Coffey still and planting estate cane.

Why is it called Mount Gay?

Mount Gay is named after Sir John Gay Alleyne, the manager who ran the distillery in the 1700s: the estate, first called Mount Gilboa, was renamed for him in 1801. "Gay" was chosen because a "Mount Alleyne" already existed, and the name is still on every bottle today.

Frequently asked questions about Mount Gay

At the Mount Gay distillery in St. Lucy, in the north of Barbados, where Rémy Cointreau has also opened a visitor centre. The “Mount Gay Distillers Experience” in Bridgetown is a visitor venue too, but not the production site.

Yes. Eclipse and Black Barrel are classics in a Rum Punch, a Daiquiri or the Bajan “Corn ’n’ Oil”, and they are the Mount Gay bottles to reach for whenever you mix.

There are currently 137 offers for Mount Gay across 27 partner shops, including Spirit Academy, Rum & Co, Rum Piraten, delicando, Armagnac.de, Slijterij & Wijnhuis Zeewijck. A 0.7 l bottle starts at 28.85 € incl. shipping. On each product page, offers are sorted by total price including shipping.

No. Every partner shop pays us the same commission rate, so we sort offers purely by the total price including shipping. The scores come from the community, not from us or the shops.
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