Comments on: Review: Mount Gay Eclipse

By: RayMon

RayMon — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:21:12 +0000

I’m with the bartender & your friend. It’s a sipping rum that sells for mixer prices.
Being that I enjoy more than 1 shot. (Since I romanticize that it takes me back to the islands…also means we could be friends with a wonderful debate) I enjoy the lightness that you describe. It keeps me wanting more. After a couple of toasts I find the smoother rums (sometimes) a little too sweet & smooth.
Highly recommend for the price and the taste.

P.S. Can you help me find that island that Mt. Gay Extra Old sells for only a penny or 2 more?

By: Capn Jimbo's Rum Project

Capn Jimbo's Rum Project — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:42:49 +0000

Bilge my friend!

I see we finally disagree – but as friends – over a rum. A rare moment. At The Rum Project (link above), Sue Sea and I have now tasted and reviewed over 120 rums – we’ve lost count.

Recently at a seaside bar we visited, I was forced to order a snifter of Eclipse as that’s all they had other than Bacardi mixers. Oh well, I thought.

Boy were we surprised. We’ve tasted all the best rums and yet found that Eclipse was surprisingly good (8 of 10 on our scoring scale). Well balanced, consistent, smooth, great finish. In short it offers all of the elements a real rum ought to.

Sweet and heat, touches of leather, vanillan, caramel, molasses, a honey clove – all in a nice youthful rum (that no doubt later ages nicely into MGXO).

This rum disproves the label of mixer. We found it a fine sipping rum, entirely enjoyable. I’m with the bartender who opened the comments.

Cheers!

By: suewhittendalesuewhittendale

suewhittendalesuewhittendale — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:16:21 +0000

Best Rum ever my partner will only drink this rum after sailing to Barbados and staying on his yatch for 2 years, he must of drank a large amount. I am trying to buy a cap with the name Mount Gay for him, can you tell me how i can get hold of one please.

By: Woody

Woody — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:56:15 +0000

nastiest rum i ever tasted

By: ROUSSEL

ROUSSEL — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:45:47 +0000

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.

By: Bilge

Bilge — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:04:44 +0000

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.

By: Jason P.

Jason P. — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:36:35 +0000

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?