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It has been awhile but I finally found the time to head down to @maison_du_whisky_singapore to sample two very special bottles by @the_colours...
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You haven’t fully explored the world of rum until you’ve tried a Hampden.
We’ve tasted, reviewed, and raved about our fair share of Hampden bott...
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To all the rum lovers out there, @hampdenestaterum hardly needs any introduction - one of the stalwart distilleries of Jamaica, and one whose na...
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In 2022 when the Hampden Pagos was first announced, Pagos to mean "Cru" in Spanish, it certainly raised a brow of interest given the Jamaican di...
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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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