Hampden HGML 2010 Habitation Velier 9 Year Old | 700ML

This bottling of Habitation Velier comes from Jamaica from the Hampden Distillery and was made in 2010 in pot style. An absolute top Hampden and top rum. This is funk without a hint of aggressiveness. It's a place to chill. The rum is round, creamy and the tropical storage is incredibly well done. Tastes absolutely delicious and addictive.

Hampden HGML 2010 Habitation Velier 9 Year Old | 700ML Tasting Notes

Nose: Super balanced on the nose. It shows that HGML is the golden middle and ester notes, tropical fruit like pineapple, a nice sweetness and spice with vanilla, but also glue and fermented fruit harmonize perfectly. The alcohol is barely noticeable. Powerful, balanced and funky. Round and tasty.

Palate: On the palate everything is nice and round and creamy. Tropical fruit, esters, vanilla and caramelized fruit.

Finish: Elegant long lasting aftertaste.

Distillery Information

The Hampden Estate was founded in 1753 by a Scotsman called Archibald Sterling, in the Queen of Spain valley of Jamaica’s Trelawny parish. For 250 years it remained family owned, selling rum to third-party blenders and independent bottlers. Mismanagement however meant that by 2003 it was in financial trouble, with the Jamaican government stepping in to assume ownership and some of its debt in order to preserve the jobs of its employees. They sold it in 2009 to the Hussey family’s Everglades Farms, who as first point of business began laying down the casks that would eventually become these first Hampden Estate labelled official bottling of the distillery’s rum, launched in collaboration with Velier in 2018. Famed for its heavy, ester-driven style, Hampden is joined by Worthy Park as the only two Jamaican distilleries that produce exclusively pure single rums (using only pot stills). It currently has four pot stills: two from Forsyths in Scotland, one from Vendome in Kentucky, and another from T&T Engineering in South Africa.

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