Mount Gay Extra Old XO Reserve Cask
Loved by Jonathan Paladino, Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰 & 39 more
A solid stepping stone Barbados sipper: 15 years, 43% and unsweetened. Expect vanilla, caramel, chocolate and plenty of oak. RumX members see it as a clean, honest XO for everyday sipping or cocktails.
- Honest unsweetened profile
- Balanced vanilla-oak
- Great value sipper
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How does Mount Gay Extra Old XO Reserve Cask taste?
Aggregated from 232 community reviews.
Honest, dry-leaning everyday Barbados XO A solid stepping stone Barbados sipper: 15 years, 43% and unsweetened. Expect vanilla, caramel, chocolate and plenty of oak. RumX members see it as a clean, honest XO for everyday sipping or cocktails.
Those building their palate who want a clean, not-too-sweet Barbados XO that works as both an easy sipper and a quality base for Old Fashioneds or simple mixed drinks.
Drinkers seeking big cask-strength intensity, heavy sweetness, or very complex, layered rums; anyone who dislikes pronounced dry oak notes.
How is Mount Gay Extra Old XO Reserve Cask rated?
RumX's 0–10 scale is strict — 7.5 lands squarely in the "Good" band. 73% of tasters rate it Good or better; only 2% rate it below average. See the full rating guide →
Rum reviews
A selection of the most popular reviews from our community. You can view the complete list in our app.
Review by Jonathan Paladino
Extraordinario Espectacular alto golpe alcohólico bien balanceado
Review by KingChip
My first Mount Gay rum. I find it a bit harsh and quite woody.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
This is definitely a Bajan style rum. Heavy and yet well balanced. This release is better than the one from 2011.
Review by Jean Louisss
A little high quality-price ratio, but for a sweet rum, it does quite well
Review by JonasTh
Very tasty. Round flavor, a little sharp. Smells good
Review by Joachim Guger
Rumfestival 20.09.2024 Bananenbrot, Vanille, getrocknete Früchte und Gewürze. Ausgewogen, handwerklich sehr gut gemacht. Wahrscheinlich so etwas wie das Herz der Mount Gay Range. ❤️🥰 Ich hatte ihn noch nie und war sehr positiv überrascht. Super Einstiegsrum mit Top PLV.
Review by Benoit Mahe
A very round and greedy rum. It lacks a bit of character and complexity, that's for sure, but it remains a very nice product. Between the flan and the crème brûlée.
Review by Piotr Ignasiak
A bit too dry at first, when rested it becomes more balanced and enjoyable. Not too complex though. This is a first bottle of rum i bought a few years ago.
Review by Johan Larsson
Very pleasant. Barbados feeling. Loads of flavours. Not too boozy and not too sweet. Just a very nice sipper
Review by rum_sk
My first time tasting this old bottling of the MG XO. 👃 provides sweet tones of vanilla, caramel, burnt sugar, oak barrels and banana & coconut very faintly. Palate is fairly sweet with caramel, vanilla, chocolate, espresso, oak barrel tones and very lovely touch of spicy notes such as black pepper but overall very subtle and great sipping rum. I like this old bottling very much. I will be comparing it with the new one as I have the bottle in stash too. I must say that if we are talking Barbados, MG is my brand to go to above them all.
Review by Kieron Wood
This is a great starting place for someone looking at trying more expensive rums . Produced by mount gay I would never expect less then a clean rum that has lovely notes of caramel , suger and bannana.
Review by Galli33
This one a tried in a cool australian restaurant in frankfurt. Classic mount gay I would say, from the start to the end… Dried fruits, wood, roasted aromas, vanilla, coconut, tobacco and a bit spicy !
Review by Hendrik Fröhlich
The rumiest of the Mountgay, more angular and alcoholic, sweeter on the finish.
Expert reviews
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Expert review by Zucker und Zeste
"Overall very harmonious, multi-layered and very homogeneous. The alcohol is briefly noticeable in between, but this is not a negative factor. A very nice rum for beginners and advanced drinkers."Read full review →
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Community purchases
647 bottles logged by 52,000+ RumX members. The ratio of closed / opened / emptied, indicates whether this rum is meant to be drunk or is a collector's item.
Also on the wishlist of 274 members.
About the Mount Gay distillery
The Mount Gay distillery is located in Barbados. Rums from Mount Gay have been reviewed 2,890 times with an average of 8.0/10.
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