CDI Hampden Jamaica (Bottled for Hongkong) HGML 1983
World-class Hampden: intensely funky yet astonishingly balanced, with deep tropical fruit, esters and minimal wood. Community praise it as a rare masterpiece and one of CDI’s finest selections.
Seasoned Hampden and high-ester fans who want a legendary, long-aged yet surprisingly elegant funk bomb with deep fruit and perfectly integrated 54.1% ABV.
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Legendary, elegant high‑ester Hampden
If you love top-tier Hampden like HLCF 2010 or big 80s HGMLs, this is their refined, continentally aged cousin—same wild DNA, but smoothed into world-class balance.
Beginners, value seekers, or anyone sensitive to high ABV and intense ester funk, as well as those who dislike rare, premium-priced collector bottles.
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About the Hampden distillery
The Hampden distillery is located in Jamaica. Rums from Hampden have been reviewed 17,739 times with an average of 8.4/10.
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Had a wonderful tasting event yesterday with only good CDI rums. This one is the last one of the six. This is a VERY rare bottle as it was originally made for the Hong Kong Market. Even the bottle is out of this world. No wonder this one was saved for last as I'm pretty sure I will never taste this one again unless I go visit Hong Kong and find a bar that has it. A true Hampden rum and it's so full of funk that every Jamaican would start dancing just smelling it. A true masterpiece from CDI that I would have loved to have in my collection.
Very rare bottling made only for Hong Kong.More awesome on the palate than on the nose for me.Better than the Kill Devil 1983 HD, but for me slightly behind the RA 1983 HD.Thanks Artur for the opportunity to taste it.
Astringent monster. There is so much happening towards the back. It is impressive how little woody the rum is.