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Has it been five years already? Hot damn! I still recall when Hampden had first released their inaugural Great House Edition in 2019, which at t...
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Hampden's are big - so when the Jamaican rum distillery releases a new mark, you'd be forgiven for being surprised that the interest in it would...
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Hampden is basically the gold standard of Jamaican rums these days - some might even in their fervour venture as far as to place the estate syno...
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Background: this is a dram I had at The Auld Alliance, one of the great whisky bars of the world. An old Hampden bottled in 2019 from a vat of ...
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Background: a cask from one of the best Hampden vintages, bottled by one of the best rum IBs. What could go wrong?
Nose: very expressive, yet i...
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Background: two rums with ester concentrations not far from 1000g/hlpa. One is a tropically aged cask of mark <>H. The other is a blend o...
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Background: Remember when I said this was (likely) to be the most epic matchup I will ever post? Well, I might just have another think coming, ...
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In the colloquialisms of whisky talk, the word “Sherry” (and by extension, “Sherry Cask” or “Sherry finish”) simply cannot be used enough. A mer...
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Image credit to /u/sirabra.
Background: so I visited a rum tasting event which offered some rare pours for reasonable prices. I tried, among ...
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Background: In one corner, we have what many consider the best Hampden ever bottled, the Samaroli 1993 Full Proof. In the other, stands an unyi...
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Background: one of the few 1983 Hampdens. Like the others of the same batch, this should be of the HGML mark.
Nose: incredibly savoury from the...
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Background: my third C<>H. This is the only fully tropical-aged exemplar of the mark I have tried. This one isn’t as universally loved as...
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