Independent bottler Secret Cask presents a newly designed eight-year-old Pot Still Rum from the Hampden Estate in Jamaica, aged in an American Oak cask, bottled in 2022 at 54.20%. Despite its high alcohol content, this rum delivers delicious notes of boiled fruit and burnt molases.
Tasting notes
Elegant fruit and light wood tones, as well as scents of high-ester rum, dominate the nose. Aromas of dark molasses, freshly sharpened pencil and pickled pineapple
Velvety and oily aromas explode on the palate with notes of dark chocolate, biscuits and apricots.
Hampden Distillery was founded in 1753 and is one of the oldest distilleries in Jamaica, producing Heavy Pot Still Rum. Its know-how has been developed and refined over generations. It is an art to produce high methyl ester rum from fermenters over a hundred years old - Hampden masters this art like no other distillery.With these SecretCask bottlings, we would like to present you with one of the most legendary rum varieties of Jamaica.Hampden rum is distilled from the company's own organic sugar cane molasses in a traditional copper distillery on a charmingly beautiful site in Jamaica dating from 1753. The secret of the casks is revealed to the connoisseur with every single sip.SecretCask is an independent Swiss bottler specialising in exceptional rum. Founded in 2017 by two friends, Markus Ramseyer and Christian Naef. Markus has been active in the world of whisky since 1998 and has built up an excellent reputation as a whisky enthusiast, collector and connoisseur.
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