Old Brothers Hampden Jamaican Rum (Esters & Co) La Source HJF 2008

fruity, funky Hampden with well-integrated power

Explosive tropical fruit
Alcohol well integrated
Classic Hampden funk
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RumX members praise its overripe pineapple, esters and olive tones with a menthol-saline finish; despite 60.8%, alcohol is beautifully integrated after airing, delivering a balanced, funky sip.

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    How does this rum taste?

    RumX members love this Hampden’s burst of overripe pineapple and classic ester funk, opening beautifully after a good rest in the glass. Many note olive and marzipan accents, a sweet pastry roundness, and a menthol-saline finish with the 60.8% superbly integrated. Selected by Old Brothers from the 2008 HJF mark and aged 13 years, this limited 391-bottle release is highly rated by 49 reviewers with rising buyer confidence.

    Aroma

    Pineapple Overripe Solvents Ester

    Taste

    Overripe Ester Pineapple Solvents

    How is this rum rated?

    8.8/10 53 reviews
    Top 12% Jamaica
    Top 18% Hampden

    What DINGUERIE again from Old Brothers, these guys have a nose for Jamaica. It's really an incredible product, pineapple caramel salted butter, light woodiness, and lots of ester glue funk, it's really ultra gourmand and deep. Extraordinary.

    Bête de rhum. Ayant le palais formaté à l'agricole je suis plis difficile avec la mélasse mais celui la m'a vraiment bluffé. A regouter sobre 2eme degust : un très beau hampden équilibre avec juste ce qu'il faut d'exuberance. Toujours l'ananas sur mur avec pas mal de fruits murs voir de l'arlequin, un boisé et un fumé très fin qui en fait un rhum très équilibre tout en gardant son caractère

    Probably one of the best Old Brothers bottlings to date. An absolutely sumptuous nose with typical Jamaican aromas, a mix of ripe tropical fruit, solvents, butter and other phenolic aromas that blend harmoniously and masterfully. The 60% are not perceptible at all on the palate, the attack being very fruity, with notes of red fruit on the finish, for a complex, intense and very round delight. The finish is just as pleasant, with saline and menthol notes and a feeling of glue on the teeth. A real treat.

    one would like to shout to OB: there you go! Again significantly better than the HJF 2002, and almost on the level of the Plantation HJF 2002, which I poured as a reference in the other glass. The OB comes a little more over the ester rail and with varnish, with the Plantation I still have a little more complexity, somehow towards Christmas spices (candied orange peel, cinnamon stick). On the palate, the OB also knows how to convince, the 60.8% is well integrated, however, the 70.3% is really hammered in the Plantation. So the OB does not quite come up to the Plantation HJF 2002, but still top level!

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    Details about this rum

    Country
    Distillery
    RumX ID
    RX12021
    ABV
    60,8%
    Category
    Pot Still Rum
    Vintage
    2008
    Mark
    HJF
    Made from
    Molasses
    Distillation
    Double Retort Pot Still
    Age
    13 years
    No. of bottles
    391
    Bottle volume
    50cl
    Price range
    <250€
    Type of spirit
    Rum
    Old Brothers • Hampden 2008 &nbsp; 13yr &nbsp; 60,8% Jamaican Rum (Esters & Co) La Source HJF

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    The Hampden distillery is located in Jamaica. Rums from Hampden have been reviewed 16,580 times with an average of 8.4/10.

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