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6393e310-fa5d-1f90-b0a2-6fc47f74831bBarbados Mount Gay
Mount Gay Eclipse Heritage Blend 100cl bottle
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43%

Mount Gay Eclipse Heritage Blend

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How does Mount Gay Eclipse Heritage Blend taste?

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6.1/10 Pleasant

4 community reviews
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Distribution of all 4 ratings
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8–9 0%
7–8 25%
6–7 25%
5–6 25%
4–5 0%
0–4 25%

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Review by Stefan Persson

Stefan Persson
Feb 2026785 reviewsSweden
6.2/10

Tasted this rum at my recent visit to the distillery. It’s a blend of molasses based Column Still rum and Copper Double Retort Pot Still rum. It’s aged for 2-3 years in charred ex-American whiskey casks. Overall a rather thin rum that’s nothing to write home about that’s better used as a mixer. The nose is fruity, spicy and nutty with scents of banana, vanilla, almonds, caramel and dark chocolate. At the palate it’s woody, fruity, smoky white burnt notes and flavors of oak, strawberry and orange. The finish is medium long.

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Expert review by The Fat Rum Pirate

Overall I do like this bottling more than I recall from previous interactions with Mount Gay Eclipse. It still doesn't grab me the way the "entry level" Jamaican rums from Appleton and Worthy Park do. Nor do I find it something that I would regularly pick up. Even on a...
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6 bottles logged by the RumX community.

Both drunk and collected.

33% opened, 0 emptied.

4 sealed 2 open 0 emptied

6 purchased · 4 tasted · 3 wishlist · as of

Details about Mount Gay Eclipse Heritage Blend

A rum from Barbados, distilled by Mount Gay, at 43%.

DistilleryMount Gay
CountryBarbados
Raw materialMolasses
ABV43%
Volume100cl

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9.0–10.0 Excellent Stash as many as you can afford. Tell no one.
8.0–8.9 Very good Bank a backup. Tell everyone you meet.
7.0–7.9 Good Buy one and recommend it to your friends.
6.0–6.9 Pleasant your rum Solid, super glad I drank it.
5.0–5.9 Average Totally acceptable.
4.0–4.9 Drinkable Not vocally complaining.
3.0–3.9 Poor Wish I was drinking something else.
2.0–2.9 Very poor Nothing nice to say.
1.0–1.9 Unpleasant No, that's not for me.
0.1–0.9 Inedible Pour it out.