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Hampden HLCF& LFCH 2021 Sherry Cask (2 bottles)

  • 62.95% |
  • 1.40L

Donated by Hamden Distillery
Established in 1753, Hampden is one of Jamaica’’s oldest distilleries. And yet its story has only just begun. Before the estate was bought by the Hussey family in 2009, its rums had never been aged or bottled on site. Up until that point, its…More info

  • Distillery: Hampden
  • Appellation: Heavy Rum
  • Country/Region: Jamaica ,
  • Quantity: 1 Box
  • Level: 2 into-neck
  • State: 2 good appearance

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Hampden HLCF& LFCH 2021 Sherry Cask (2 bottles)

The wine

Donated by Hamden Distillery
Established in 1753, Hampden is one of Jamaica’’s oldest distilleries. And yet its story has only just begun. Before the estate was bought by the Hussey family in 2009, its rums had never been aged or bottled on site. Up until that point, its spirit was exported, mainly to Europe, and sold to independent bottlers who used it to add flavour to their blended rums, or otherwise to confectioners and perfumers, in an activity that now continues alongside the official bottling of the distillery’’s heavy rums, the first aged versions of which were only released in 2018.
This lot contains two bottles of rum from the categories of mark HLCF (500-700 grams of esters/hL alc.) and LFCH (80-120 grams of esters/hL alc.), sourced directly from the distillery. Both were distilled in June 2021 before spending one year in sherry casks in a tropical climate at the distillery’’s warehouse in Trelawny, north-west Jamaica. A unique opportunity to discover the extraordinary profiles offered by Hampden rum.

The distillery Hampden

Rum, Jamaica. Distillery operational. Owner: Everglades Farms Ltd.

Independent & family-ownedKnown primarily in the rum, perfume and food industries, Hampden began to move out of the shadows in 2009 when the Jamaican government decided to disinvest from the national Jamaica Sugar Company and auctioned off its assets. The family-owned company Everglades Farms Ltd (owned by the Hussey family) secured the lot and became the owner of this gem which is now considered the alter ego of the Scottish distillery Ardbeg. This link with Scotland is no coincidence. Hampden Estate was bought in 1748 by Robert Stirling, who had left Perthshire (Scotland) in 1742. The Hussey family sells two expressions of its rum, including an Overproof which is particularly well-known in the bar and HORECA segment. But it was in 2017, when family-owned Italian (Velier) and French (LMDW) companies began distributing the first old rums, that Hampden really took off, rising to the ranks of the finest rums currently on the market.

Detailed characteristics

  • Distillery: Hampden
  • Vintage: 2021
  • Bottler: Of.
  • Appellation: Heavy Rum
  • Country/Region: Jamaica ,
  • Alcohol percentage: 62.95 %
  • Volume: 1.40L
  • Quantity: 1 Box
  • Level: 2 into-neck
  • State: 2 good appearance
  • Case: Yes
  • Origin: Trade
  • Recoverable VAT: No
  • Color: Brown
Hampden HLCF& LFCH 2021 Sherry Cask (2 bottles)
Hampden HLCF& LFCH 2021 Sherry Cask (2 bottles)

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