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Hampden HGML 2021 The 1423 SBS / UK Rum Club - One of 29

Lot: 5132994

Hampden HGML 2021 The 1423 SBS / UK Rum Club - One of 29

Winning Bid: £470

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Hampden
Vintage: 
2021
Region: 
Jamaica
Bottler: 
1423 Ltd
Cask Type: 
PX Finish
Bottled Strength: 
58.3%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Production method: 
pot still
Base: 
molasses
product Details

Hampden HGML 2021 The 1423 SBS / UK Rum Club - One of 29

The Hampden Estate was founded in 1753 by a Scotsman called Archibald Sterling, in the Queen of Spain valley of Jamaica’s Trelawny parish. For 250 years it remained family owned, selling rum to third-party blenders and independent bottlers. Mismanagement however meant that by 2003 it was in financial trouble, with the Jamaican government stepping in to assume ownership and some of its debt in order to preserve the jobs of its employees. They sold it in 2009 to the Hussey family’s Everglades Farms, who as first point of business began laying down the casks that would eventually become the first Hampden Estate labelled official bottling of the distillery’s rum, launched in collaboration with Velier in 2018. Famed for its heavy, ester-driven style, Hampden is joined by Worthy Park as the only two Jamaican distilleries that produce exclusively pure single rums (using only pot stills). It currently has four pot stills: two from Forsyths in Scotland, one from Vendome in Kentucky, and another from T&T Engineering in South Africa.

This was distilled in 2021 and bottled in 2022 after a PX Sherry finish.

Established in 1923 on the site of the sugar factory for which it was named, Caroni was a key ingredient of British Navy rations, where it's famous high ester 'Heavy' rums help to make up the signature flavour. Sadly, with the decline of the Trinidadian sugar industry, the Islands distillers became more and more dependent upon imported molasses, making distilling less and less economical. The writing then, was already on the wall when in 2001 the Trinidadian government sold a 49% share in the holding company to Angostura. Caroni was shuttered in 2002 and a behemoth of flavour was lost to the world.

One of 29 bottles.

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