"These terroir-driven releases are produced from one year of harvest, this latest expression being 2019, which is also the year Mount Gay started integrating regenerative agriculture practices. "We really started this journey in 2015, and over the last 10 years, what we've been able to do is vertically integrate the entire process of single estate," Branker says. "What does that really mean? It means the House of Mount Gay produces every or has its fingerprint on every step of the [rum-making] process.""
"25_04 is a blend of two pot still distillations combined into one expression, matured for five years in American oak ex-bourbon barrels. Let's have a sip. How it tastes: Bottled at 55% ABV, 25_04 is non-chill filtered. This release pretty much encapsulates the best of Mount Gay. There's a grassiness here, some apple on the nose, plenty of vanilla and butterscotch, hints of pear and cherry, a nice bit of charred oak and even a little salinity."
Mount Gay, established in 1703 on northern Barbados, produces Single Estate releases from estate-grown sugar cane harvested annually since acquiring Mount Gay and Oxford Estates in 2015. The 25_04 expression uses 2019 cane, the year Mount Gay began integrating regenerative agriculture, and reflects a vertically integrated single-estate process overseen by Master Blender Trudiann Branker. The release blends two pot-still distillations and rests five years in American ex-bourbon oak. Bottled at 55% ABV and non-chill filtered, the rum presents grassiness, apple, vanilla, butterscotch, pear, cherry, charred oak and a touch of salinity.
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