{"id":36000,"date":"2018-09-26T14:48:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=36000"},"modified":"2018-09-26T14:48:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:48:38","slug":"mount-gay-blends-barbados-islay-create-xo-peat-smoke-rum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/mount-gay-blends-barbados-islay-create-xo-peat-smoke-rum\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Gay blends Barbados with Islay to create XO Peat Smoke Rum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Gay Rum has released the first bottling of its Master Blender Collection \u2013 the limited edition XO The Peat Smoke Expression.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mount Gay XO The Peat Smoke Expression is the first release in the Master Blender Collection<\/p>\n<p>Mount Gay master blender Allen Smith created the smoky iteration, which is a blend of column and pot still rums that have been matured for eight to 15 years in American oak barrels.<\/p>\n<p>Bottled at 57% abv, Mount Gay XO The Peat Smoke Expression is said to have aromas of stewed fruit, caramel, chocolate, Bourbon vanilla and smoke, with a \u201cvelvety texture\u201d on the palate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mount-Gay-XO-Peat-Smoke.jpg\"><img data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mount-Gay-XO-Peat-Smoke.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mount-Gay-XO-Peat-Smoke-300x189.jpg 300w\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mount-Gay-XO-Peat-Smoke.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36005 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"\"    sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36005\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mount-Gay-XO-Peat-Smoke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mount-Gay-XO-Peat-Smoke.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Mount-Gay-XO-Peat-Smoke-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Only 6,120 bottles have been created, with 1,200 allocated for sale in the US at an RRP of US$250.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mount Gay is proud to reveal XO The Peat Smoke Expression, a unique and unconventional limited edition. This limited edition embodies the meeting of two exceptional islands: the island of Barbados, the birthplace of rum, and the island of Islay, the homeland of peated whisky. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/esMrxZWAKQ\">pic.twitter.com\/esMrxZWAKQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mount Gay Rum (@mountgayrum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mountgayrum\/status\/1039181717205078022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Gay Rum has released the first bottling of its Master Blender Collection \u2013 the limited edition XO The Peat Smoke Expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":36011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2597,1],"tags":[6803,39,2764,3441,6801,84],"class_list":["post-36000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-selling-brands-in-duty-free","category-latest-news","tag-barbados","tag-dutyfree","tag-islay","tag-mount-gay-rum","tag-mount-gay-xo-the-peat-smoke","tag-rum"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}