Mount Gay Pot Still Rum

Pot still rum from Barbados is rare — nearly every Bajan bottling blends pot and column — and The Rum Barrel calls Mount Gay's its favorite expression the distillery has ever made, scoring it 89. Mount Gay is the oldest commercial rum distillery in the world, with a deed from 1703, in the parish of St. Lucy at the northern tip of Barbados, and this was one of the first releases from Trudiann Branker after she became the island's first woman master blender in 2019. It's 100% pot-still molasses rum, distilled in 2009 on the distillery's double-retort copper pot still, aged ten years in ex-bourbon casks, and bottled at 48% ABV with no additives in a limited run. Without the column component that gives Mount Gay's core range its lightness, the pot still shows what the distillery's heavier spirit tastes like on its own: expect a nose of ripe banana, dried tropical fruit, caramel, and toasted oak with a savory, faintly funky ester note, opening into a rich, oily, full-bodied palate of brown sugar, baking spice, coconut, and leather with the proof carrying real depth, finishing long and warm. Honest note: this is a collector's Mount Gay — an enthusiast's bottle at an enthusiast's price, and the one Foursquare fans reach for to compare the island's two great pot stills. Neat, with a drop of water, slowly. 1703's pot still, on its own at last.

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