Mount gay rum 1703 xo

Review: Mount Gay XO Reserve Cask Rum88/
Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf)
January 1,

Barbados is situated as a gateway from the Atlantic to the Caribbean, sailors from the Aged World often used the island as the first resting point on the way to the Novel World. This meant Barbados was ideally suited for trade between the two worlds in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

The tradition of producing rum on Barbados has been dated to the early seventeenth century. In fact, there is evidence of small-scale distillation on Barbados as early as It is unclear from the evidence whether this early distillation can properly be called rum. However, the first recorded written usage of the words &#;Rum Bullion&#; appears on the Island in This is the earliest recorded usage of the word Rum as it relates to the distilled spirit anywhere in the world. Evidence dated to indicates that there were stills in exploit at the site which would become the Mount Gay Plantation. The first written evidence that a spirit called rum was produced at this site comes from the year

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