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Mount Gay Eclipse 1980s

Lot: 5106028

Mount Gay Eclipse 1980s

Winning Bid: £45

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Mount Gay
Age: 
N/A
Vintage: 
N/A
Region: 
Barbados
Bottler: 
Official
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
40%
Bottle Size: 
75cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
Production method: 
pot & column still
Base: 
molasses
product Details

Mount Gay Eclipse 1980s

The oldest surviving deed for the Mount Gay distillery in Barbados dates back to 1703, making it the oldest commercial rum producer in the world. A 280-acre estate in the Saint Lucy parish, Mount Gay was originally called Mount Gilboa, but was renamed in 1801 after Sir John Gay Alleyne, who had managed it for owner, John Sober, since 1747. The estate was bought by Aubrey Fitz-Osbert Ward in 1918, and remained in his family until the death of his son in 1989. Majority ownership then passed to French giants, Remy Cointreau, with the Ward’s selling their remaining shares in 2014. Mount Gay is a single blended rum, producing distillates on both continuous column stills and pot stills, some of which are now over 100 years old.

The classic Mount Gay Eclipse was first bottled in 1910 and named after the the passing of Halley's comet by a total solar eclipse that same year. It is made using pot and column distilled rum, blended prior to ageing and matured in ex-bourbon wood.

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