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Hampden 2016 Velier 5 Year Old Magnum Series #1 1.5 Litre / Elliott Erwitt

Lot: 6028258

Hampden 2016 Velier 5 Year Old Magnum Series #1 1.5 Litre / Elliott Erwitt

Winning Bid: £400

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Hampden
Age: 
5 Year Old
Vintage: 
2016
Region: 
Jamaica
Bottler: 
Velier
Bottled Strength: 
60%
Bottle Size: 
1.5 Litre
Distillery Status: 
Operational
Production method: 
double retort pot still
Base: 
molasses
product Details

Hampden 2016 Velier 5 Year Old Magnum Series #1 1.5 Litre / Elliott Erwitt

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 2016 and bottled by Velier in collaboration with La Maison du Whisky in 2021. The bottle features a photograph taken by Elliott Erwitt in 1954 at Coney Island, New York.

Velier was founded by Casimir Chaix in Genoa in 1947 as a wine and spirits importer and distributor. By the 1980s they were still a small family-company with less than ten staff. This all changed in 1986 when it was purchased by Luca Gargano, a former brand ambassador for Saint James who was at the time still in his twenties. Under his direction, they selected their first single cask whiskies in 1992, and their first rum in 1996. In the decades that followed, Velier have gone on to become one of the most collectible brands in the industry, and Gargano has positioned them as the one of the foremost authorities and bottlers of rum anywhere in the world.

This lot will include a two bottle shipping fee.

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