Review: Mount Gay Eclipse
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Mount Gay Eclipse
www.mountgayrum.com
My experience with Mt. Gay has been 50/50. I first tried their Sugar Cane Rum, and didn’t care for it much at all. I next tried their more exclusive Extra Old Rum, and it was an instant favorite. So now, just for grins, I return to the grocery store variety of Mt. Gay to try their Eclipse rum.
The color is light amber, the bottle unremarkable, and the label boasts the contents to be “refined.” To the smell, this rum is distant, and somewhat mildewy and crustaceous – I swear to you, there’s uncooked lobster in this, which makes for an odd, if not exactly good, start (especially for pirates with allergies.) But being the brave sort, I take the plunge and have a swig. In the mouth, Mt. Gay Eclipse is light and syrupy. It leaves a defined tingle across the tongue once swallowed, but little in the way of any actual flavor. The second sip encounters less tingle, and a bit more sweetness – but is still absent any real flavor. Indeed, with each subsequent sip Mt. Gay Eclipse flirts with flavor – sweet here, leathery there – but never really commits to anything. As such, it has little to recommend it to the the rum sipper of any sort of refined expectations.
Stick with the Mt. Gay Extra Old. It costs a penny or two more, but you’ll be happier in the end.
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Mixing is an art in and of itself, and I’m sure that a skilled mixologist can do all sorts of wonderful things with rums that might not stand well on their own. However, my reviews focus on how the rum in question performs when it doesn’t have the support of fruit juices, seltzers, or little paper umbrellas – and Mt. Gay Eclipse simply did not measure up.
While I don’t see fit to give Eclipse a little love based on the age of its distillery, Mt. Gay is well loved around these parts, I assure you. The Extra Old remains one of my favorites, and I’m looking forward to trying their 1703 very soon.
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Je souhaiterais connaitre le nom d’un distributeur en FRANCE de ce fameux Rhum. Mount gay rum “Eclipse” Merci de bien vouloir m’aider dans mes recherche.
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nastiest rum i ever tasted
I’m a bartender at a bar that has 127 different rums (last time I checked) and I can’t believe this only got half a star. I have my choice of what rum I’d like to enjoy at the end of the night and more times than not my hand is on a bottle of Mount Gay Eclipse including the Silver. Granted I am using a mixer, but half a star? Half a star is where anything Bacardi makes should be. It’s the world’s oldest rum distillery. man. Can’t it get a little love?