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The Duchess Mount Gay Barbados 19
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The surprise here is how little it drinks like Mount Gay — several tasters said they'd never have guessed it blind. It opens fruity and floral: banana, ripe melon, a bit of sugarcane, with clove, tobacco and light oak sitting behind. At 54.3% and 19 years it's balanced and only lightly dry, the wood held back rather than pushed. Elegant, with a long banana finish.
The community says- Elegant balance
- Long banana finish
- But: Light on fruit
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How does The Duchess Mount Gay Barbados 19 taste?
Summarized by AI from 29 community reviews.
Elegant, fruity-floral Mount Gay that surprises Most tasters land on elegant and well-balanced, often calling it the pick of the 2000 releases. A few miss more fruit and complexity, but nobody rates it poorly.
Barbados fans who like elegant, balanced sippers
anyone chasing bold fruit or funk
Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat
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Review by mto75
Most helpful positive review
Although I'm not the biggest Mount Gay fan, I have to say that I quite like the Duchess. I wouldn't even know if I would have recognized it as a Mount Gay blind. Floral notes on the nose, yellow fruit, watermelon, caramel pudding. Tobacco and spices on the palate. A lot of barrel/tannins on the finish.
Review by Pavel Spacek
Most helpful mixed review
Mid-sharp of my not-favourite MG profile...
Review by DomM
Out of a small cross tasting: Rum Mercenary is the most lifely with some floral notes while the other three have a more similar profile. Rum Cask is very well balanced an approchable. RumClub feels the most intense with some funky notes. The Duchess is the most elegant out of the bunch and my personal winner.
Review by lukasdrinkinghabits
We tasted four Mount Gay 2000 releases at the Rum-X Community Tasting. The tasting was very entertaining, but the rums only contributed a small part. Overall, the rums were super similar, with the differences being in the nuances. Personally, I don't like the profile as much, as it just lacks fruit. This one has the nicest nose out of the flight. It's more elegant than the others, reminiscent of light Worthy Parks or maybe Appletons. There is a present fruit of bananas and ripe melons, but behind that again the cloves and tobacco we know from the others are waiting. On the palate, fruit and floral notes keep the balance, wood and spices rather in the background: banana and pine needles. The banana remains in the mouth for a long time.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
This one was a huge surprise because it's not a typical Bajan rum nor the typical Mount Gay. They have managed to manipulate the final result in a very nice and surprising way. The nose is fruity and floral with sugarcane, nuts, light wood and a hint of vanilla. The palate is well balanced and lightly dry with fruit, sugarcane, floral notes and wood as again onlt a hint of vanilla. The finish is long and fruity with oak and a very light bitterness which becomes it pretty well. Price to quality is very good in my mind.
Review by Richard Krupa
floral, buttery and spicy sample. Maybe I smell a hint of marzipan, but a dry marzipan.
Review by Rodolphe
Comparison of 3 Mount Gay 2000s last night with two friends: The rum mercenary: a very greedy nose, with marzipan and some yellow fruit. Super pleasant. The palate is in line with the nose, with no surprises. In the end, it's good but lacks a little complexity. The rum cask: there's no doubt about it, it's the same rum except for a few minor differences. Here, the wood is more prominent on the nose, but also on the palate, resulting in a slightly bitter finish. This makes the nose a lot nicer on this rum. The duchess: once again, it's clear that this is the same rum, but with a more woody profile. Except that, surprisingly, it's better integrated than on the rum cask, more balanced and gourmand. All in all, the best of the 3 for us last night.
Review by Rum man
Starts with a sweaty note that wears off quite fast. Then you find the classic Mount Gay profile with some vanilla and coconut. There is more on the palette with some added milk chocolate and tropical fruits as well. The finish is in the same direction with woody notes too. Where the finish begins is where this rum is most impressive. It is an old rum, being distilled in 2001 and bottles in 2019. It must have been a fair chunk of continental aging because the rum is not overly woody. Perhaps the cask was also not too active anymore. This is a fine rum that displays Mount Gay really well. It does not do much more than that though.
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Expert review by The Fat Rum Pirate
Read full review →Maybe 13 years Continental ageing? Or maybe this was some kind of experimental blend. Had I been given this blind I doubt I would ever have guessed it at being from Mount Gay as it tastes so different to what I have experienced before. That said it's a really interesting...
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12 bottles logged by 12 collectors.
Both drunk and collected.
25% opened, 1 emptied.
What did the community pay for The Duchess Mount Gay Barbados 19?
Community paid 88–106 €.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 92 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
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Details about The Duchess Mount Gay Barbados 19
A rum from Barbados, bottled by The Duchess, at 54,3%.
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