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[][] In Out at the Movies, Steven Paul Davies explains that as a result of the film's success, "most major film studios have been clamouring to get behind new, gay-themed projects. On this island, the birthplace of rum, as Barbados has been called for centuries, Mount Gay is a must-see landmark. The explorer Pedro A. Campos discovered the island in , and named it Barbados after the long aerial roots of fig trees that reminded him of beards, or Barbudos in his language.

However, according to another source, the Genoese Explorer Visconte Maggiolo had already given the island the same name in , after the bearded Caribbean Indians who inhabited the island at the time.

In , the island was annexed and claimed for England by Captain Powell, on behalf of a London trader. A rare case in the Caribbean, this dependence on the United Kingdom lasted…until ! Less than ten years after its colonization, sugar cane was planted on the island by a certain Peter Blower alongside tobacco and cotton, and relatively quickly, the juice of the sugar cane was distilled directly to make rum.

But Barbados Water was already known in London, as it was mentioned in a book, The Distiller of London, published in It is possible that artisanal distilleries existed on other Caribbean islands at the same time, however only Barbados has documents to prove it. The property upon which Mount Gay Distillery is located today claims that it dates back to , however it is only a notarized act dated February 20, that establishes the existence of a distillery at that location.

Nevertheless, this still makes it the oldest rum distillery still in operation. As for the origins of the name, it has two significations. But, like many other landowners in Barbados, he did not reside on the island, preferring instead the pleasures of London. And so he handed over the management of his plantation to an authentic Barbadian, John Gay Alleyne, who was also a baronet, a member of Parliament and a benefactor of the island, as he helped to set up its first school.

Upon his death in , the Sober family wanted to pay tribute to his memory by naming the distillery and its rums after him. However, at the time, there was already a company called Mount Alleyne. So they settled on Mount Gay, which was to be used for centuries to come as the name of origin, both geographical and historical. In the 18th and 19th centuries, rum production in Barbados experienced some serious turbulence.

Whereas in the island was one of the largest producers of rum in the Caribbean, by it ranked only fourteenth. The situation then improved somewhat, only to deteriorate again in the second half of the nineteenth century after the abolition of slavery in , resulting in a ten-fold fall in exports between and Under pressure from London traders, a law prohibited British West Indies distillers from bottling their rums in containers smaller than ten gallons, or This prevented rum producers from developing an autonomous trade policy and left the metropolis with a quasi-monopoly of the sale of bottled rum.

This company was the sole owner of the trademark. They decided to transfer bottling operations to the United States, importing rum in bulk. White rum was subsequently launched, in addition to other product ranges. In , Extra Old, the first aged rum was launched. The Ward family remained the owner of the distillery and, in , current owner Frank Ward began producing a triple distillation rum that he would market himself for a few years in limited quantities under the name Mount Gilboa, the very first name of the distillery!

Things had gone full circle. Mount Gay now uses some local molasses but the majority is imported from the rest of the Caribbean. As for the water needed for fermentation, it comes from a well dug all the way down to the groundwater table on the property itself. Distillation takes place in four double-retort copper pot stills, two manufactured by McMillan in Edinburgh at the end of the 19th century, and the others by Fragasa.

The aged distillates are then assembled by Master Blender Allen Smith according to his recipes.