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Mount Gay Extra Old XO Cask Strength Rum
Cask-strength fans curious about Mount Gay are the right crowd here. At 63% you get coconut, vanilla, burnt sugar and oak, with a roasted-orange, faintly floral nose. A few drinkers loved the full body; others found the alcohol not fully integrated and missed the usual distillery character. One reviewer even pegged it as tasting "more like FSQ with just MG tail."
- Full body
- Coconut and vanilla
- 15-Year age
+10
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How does Mount Gay Extra Old XO Cask Strength Rum taste?
Aggregated from 20 community reviews.
Full-bodied 63% Mount Gay, somewhat divisive Opinions split: some call this a full-bodied cask-strength worth chasing, others feel the heat sits unintegrated and the distillery character goes missing. Coconut, vanilla and oak run through it.
Cask-strength drinkers who like coconut-and-oak Barbados rum
Beginners or anyone wanting smooth, well-knit alcohol
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4 of 20 left detailed tasting impressions
How is Mount Gay Extra Old XO Cask Strength Rum rated?
RumX’s 0–10 scale is strict: 8.2 sits in the “Very good” band. 90% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 10% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
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Rum reviews
35% rate it between 6 and 8. Selected write-ups from 20 community ratings. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
This is a great full body cask strength rum and I can only recommend it. Only 3000 bottles made so you have to be fast.
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
no idea what went wrong here but the drinking strengths are more suitable for me...
Review by Jules Selected Spirits
deliciousssssss
Review by Dr.Django
The nose is pungent, the palate intense with vanilla, coconut, burnt sugar, wood. Alcohol not particularly well integrated. The finish is medium long. Tastes like an average Foursquare from a bourbon barrel. I'll stay tuned and keep looking for my first really good Mount Gay.
Review by Nico Köppe
Initially in the nose a great start, roasted orange, pleasant barrel notes,almost floral.... Taste leaves some herbal, alcohol is quite present and unfortunately not as well integrated as I remembered. Also the typical distillery character is very lacking here. In the finish quite quickly passing and without further occurrences. A very high-priced rum that has not picked me up today.
Review by Pavel Spacek
This one taste more like FSQ with just MG tail. I like it!
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Expert review by The Fat Rum Pirate
Read full review →After trying this the XO does seem a little "watery" but only immediately after drinking this at nigh on Cask Strength. A very well made, well balanced and blended authentic rum. Highly recommended. If the price is a problem then just go for the regular XO an perhaps a bottle...
Details about Mount Gay Extra Old XO Cask Strength Rum
A rum from Barbados, distilled by Mount Gay, at 63%.
Community purchases
47 bottles logged by 45 collectors.
A drinker's rum.
40% opened, 5 emptied and repurchased.
What did the community pay for Mount Gay Extra Old XO Cask Strength Rum?
Community paid 58–238 €.
What members actually paid for their bottles. A typical range, not the current shop price. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
47 purchased · 23 tasted · 23 wishlist · as of
About the Mount Gay distillery
The Mount Gay distillery is located in Barbados. Rums from Mount Gay have been reviewed 3,016 times with an average of 8.0/10.
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