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Hampden 1998 The Wild Parrot / LMDW

Lot: 8945

Hampden 1998 The Wild Parrot / LMDW

Winning Bid: £370

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Lot:
Distillery: 
Hampden
Age: 
n/a
Vintage: 
1998
Region: 
Jamaica
Bottler: 
The Wild Parrot
Cask Type: 
N/A
Bottled Strength: 
64.5%
Bottle Size: 
70cl
Distillery Status: 
Operational
Production method: 
double retort pot still
Base: 
molasses
product Details

Hampden 1998 The Wild Parrot / LMDW

The Wild Parrot is a collaboration between Stefano Cremeschi and Hidden Spirits. Hidden Spirits is part of a new generation of independent Italian bottlers. Founded by Andrea Ferrari, the company operates an online store for fine and rare collectible spirits, as well as bottling some very respected independent single malts and rum.

This Hampden was bottled from single cask #WP98645 in 2017, specially for La Maison du Whisky in Paris.

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.

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