Trudiann Branker, Mount Gay’s new cellar master inducted in April 2019, establishes her style. After five years of instruction under the legendary Allen Smith, Trudiann first honed her hand on the limited series which have revealed her preferences. After releasing the Pot Still Rum, part of the…
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Rum & Sustainability – Raphael Grisoni: “Barbados is an island where fresh water is scarce and precious.”
Raphael Grisoni, originally from Marseille, is the Managing Director of Mount Gay in Barbados. A fact which is often overlooked is that, although the Rémy Cointreau Group bought the Mount Gay brand in 1989, it only took over the distillery in 2014. Since then, Raphael has been…
Mount Gay goes old school
For over a year already, Mount Gay has been dabbling in a stylistic exercise: the Master Blender collection. After leaping into the future with its “Peat Smoke Expression,” the brand is peddling back in time to delve into the genesis of its distillation. We’re talking about 100%…
Mount Gay Black Barrel Tasting with Cyr. Mald
Mount Gay is located in the north of the island, in the parish of St Lucy, on a mount which used to be called Mount Gilboa and was renamed Mount Gay in honor to our namesake Sir John Gay Alleyne, and is the oldest of the four…
“Over 300 years experience in serving our clients” – rendez-vous with Raphael Grisoni
Interview with Raphael Grisoni by Allen Smith Rumporter: Without entering the specialist debate on the birthplace of rum, Mount Gay is in any case one of the very first rum distilleries and the only one that can boast of being documented for over 300 years. What does…
Mount Gay, noblesse oblige
Barbados, dubbed the birthplace of rum, required a lord to play the role of its illustrious representative, a role that history gave to Sir John Gay Alleyne, particularly since Mount Gay is the oldest rum distillery in the world. And yet it could have been given many…
