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Near-universal love here, with a couple of tasters finding it too sour or a bit one-note. It's a tropically-aged Hampden at a wild 70.3% that almost nobody tastes as hot — overripe pineapple, banana, glue, olive brine, tar and roasted wood, all oily and concentrated. Several call it the best Plantation they've had. Give it a long rest in the glass first.
The community says- Alcohol perfectly integrated
- Overripe pineapple, banana
- Long oily finish
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Intense tropical Hampden, ester and pineapple heavy Widely loved as an exceptional tropical Hampden with the 70.3% shockingly well integrated. A couple found it too sour or slightly linear, but most call it one of Plantation's best.
Aroma profileHampden and high-ester funk fans who like cask strength
Beginners and anyone put off by 70% ABV or funky sour notes
Style & occasion: Tropical & funkySipping neat
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Positive from 8.0 · Mixed 6.0–7.9 · Critical below 6.0
Review by Jakob
Most helpful positive review
Great bottling - both wonderful fruit notes and wood, spice and a heavy caramel sweetness come together here. The alcohol is excellently integrated, the over 70% are not really tasty - except in the aromatic complexity. If Plantation can maintain this level, one can look forward to the coming releases.
Review by Pavel Spacek
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Tooo sour imho .. Hampden, legendarni jamajska destilerka, ktera krome rumu produkuje take alkohol do parfemu. Ve vsech rumech z teto destilerky ucitite divoke estery, po kterych cely vas organizmus nasakne vuni zluteho tropickeho ovoce - manga, papaji, anansu, broskvi. Jeden z rumu, ktere "must try before die"
Review by Clément Boetto🤤🇫🇷
Impressive alcohol integration! An aromatic bomb, an explosion of flavor. A top-quality Hampden!
Review by Oliver
Extraordinary Hampden with perfectly integrated alcohol. This one is really fun!
Review by Dr.Django
A superb bottling! Jamaica funk, esters, wood, spice. The nose hints at the potential of this rum, perhaps a little spicy with its 70% abv. The palate is oily, creamy and at the same time astringent, with an outstanding interplay of aromas of tropical fruits, glue, wood... Very well integrated alcohol. A long finish rounds off this outstanding rum.
Review by Mirco
Powerful rum with pronounced ester notes that immediately attract attention. Tropical fruits, some solvent and a hint of herbal spice characterize the profile. Despite the very high alcohol content, everything is surprisingly balanced and harmonious, intense but not spicy. A real exclamation mark from Plantation!
Review by SaibotZtar
...probably the best I've ever tasted from Plantation.... Alcohol well integrated (at incredible 70.3%)... beautiful fruit and ester notes for me balanced and very very tasty !!Please more of it 🇯🇲❤️
Review by crazyforgoodbooze
Absolutely epic Hampden in my opinion. The 70.3% are incredibly well integrated, there are other Hampdens that scratch much more at 58%. This one is simply unbelievably deliciously oily, intense, balanced and concentrated. The note of Provolone/Pecorino cheese, which is present both on the nose and in the taste, is somewhat irritating. However, the whole is wonderfully rounded off by baked banana, acacia honey, Virginia tobacco, a little mint or eucalyptus, overripe pineapple, a little lime and olive brine at the end. The finish is a little woodier, more medicinal and slightly acidic, bacony, but incredibly tasty and never too much wood or too much ester. Simply perfectly balanced! I have to try this one in May Tai! 🤤🇯🇲🤙 But be careful: it needs 1.5 hours to breathe!⚠️ PS: 1 year after opening, it has become much rounder and tamer!
Review by Thunderbird
A first-class Hampden with the full power of Jamaica! On the nose it is powerfully funky with a good portion of ester, fruit and also woodiness. This continues on the palate, oily and creamy, it spreads over the palate and is initially quite wild and it takes a while to tame it. But then the full hampdenktaft blossoms. A pleasure, as is the long finish, a clear recommendation. Nothing more needs to be said
Review by Adrian Wahl
What a brutal beast. One of THE releases in 2021 for a very fair price. Plantation must have some treasures hidden in the cellar. More of this, please.
Review by Leo Krüper
A few months later tasted again and must correct me significantly upwards. Cool part and necessarily try times in peace, if you have the opportunity for it.
Review by Joe95
Probably the best Plantation bottling for me (although it's more of an LMDW selection). A Hampden high esters as we like them, in the line of an excellent . In addition to the roasted tropical fruits (banana, pineapple...), there are some empyreumatic notes. The strawberry tagada and Haribot banana candy side is just exquisite. A perfectly integrated alcohol that allows an interminable finish. A must !
Review by TheRhumhoe
Clearly one of Plantation's best releases to date. The nose is highly concentrated, with overripe pineapple, banana and mango, esters, solvents, glue and varnish blending perfectly with the woody, spicy and pastry notes, and the hint of tar adding a terpene influence that's quite singular for Hampden. There are also hints of olive, which are added after aeration. A profile as complete as it is exuberant on the nose. On the palate, this is a true dragon: powerful, majestic, but beware of its fire breath. The 70 degrees are extremely well integrated, but remind the palate that it's still hot. Extremely fruity and phenolic, the funk is clearly there. Tannins, olive and citrus leave their mark on the rum, along with some nice spicy, woody, empyreumatic notes and a hint of caramel. The rum is oily, intense and complex on the palate, a real success. The very long finish blows like a warm, fruity wind, with some phenols, spices and rubbery notes. It is, however, more docile than the attack on the palate. A truly indomitable beast, this Hampden is heavy, full-bodied, aromatic, complex and very tasty. A wonderful experience that deserves its price.
Review by Benoit Mahe
The nose starts on a nice greediness: it smells good molasses. With a little time, notes of cheese (ewe?) and olive appear. The profile is more closed and less fruity than on other Hampden, but it is pleasant. The mouth is powerful but the alcohol is well integrated. The balance of the mouth is perfect: we have greed and fruit. A nice selection.
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
#4448 03.11.2023 first off thanks to Thomas Wille for supplying this nice sample. A very nice Hampden indeed. Fruity and fresh with nice esters and light glue notes. The palate is oily and fruity with nice roasted wood notes. The finish is very long, oily and warm with a nice smoky touch and light mint. Love the caramel in the profile. Would have loved a bottle on my shelves 😊
Review by mto75
Hampden nose at its best! Buttery notes, pastry / baking spice, pineapple, solvent, caramel. Even though the 70% ABV is brute, and you can only sip here, it fits together well for me here. Fermented fruit, spice, olive and wood on the palate. The finish is toasty and meaty. Plantation has really hit it big here! Again, quite a bit better than the Old Brothers HJF 2002. Plantation's courage to keep the barrel strength has clearly paid off. I wonder, however, how the Old Brothers would have been at cask strength 🤔 (unfortunately, it was diluted from 76.6% to 53.6%).
Review by Rodolphe
Super Hampden. An epic fruity because to the traditional notes of super ripe pineapple, banana and lemon comes a kind of strawberry candy (the Cognac barrel had to play here... look on the side of savanna 😁) On the other hand even if the alcohol is very well integrated, I find that it calms down a bit anyway! I added a very slight hint of water to it and it was just perfect.
Review by Johannes
I would not have expected that from Plantation. A real board with 70%
Review by Rhum Mirror 🇧🇪
Nose super concentrated in esters and ripe tropical fruits. You find menthol freshness and notes of a candy box. The nose is very attractive. On the palate, the funky side fades quickly to make way for ripe exotic fruits. 20 years of aging gave it a pleasant roundness. It's impressively integrated and indulgent for a rum at 70.3%! The finish is very long on smoke, brown sugar, and pistachio. I love this Jamaican, all controlled despite the high ABV. On paper, it could be scary, but in the glass, the years of aging did it good. A great success. Thanks Aflo for the samples and even more for this HJF. I find the price/pleasure ratio incredible at its release price.
Review by Frank
Gentlemen, this is a beast!!! Nose: voluminous, strong and intense, without the over 70% alcohol disturbing or even overpowering the aromas in any way. On the contrary. It feels totally rounded. Fine esters lead directly to sweet or slightly sour fruits like currant, cherry, orange and banana. A strong spicy sweetness of maple syrup and dark honey transitions into caramel, toasted wood and some cocoa. Overall spicy-caramel-sour-sweet. Super! 92 Palate: Madness. Of course, you feel the 70%. But no trace of alcoholic sharpness. The high ABV makes the rum very creamy but also quite astringent at the start. Esters come through, but rather hidden. More, I get an intense bacon-like umami note that turns into a pleasant spiciness with a fine hint of mint and licorice. For me, pineapple is also the dominant fruit here. Some cocoa comes in at the back. 92 I'm pretty impressed. Super integrated alcohol, dense and diverse aromas, great flavor curve, intense, great rum! You could still debate whether the last year of finishing in a Cognac cask was necessary. Surely it brings out the fruit aromas. I would have liked it "pure" too!
Review by Jarek
Wow, I'd love a whole bottle of this. It runs warm down the throat but never too sharp. The over 70% is very well tamed. Perfectly matured, woody but not bitter. Brilliant fruity nose.
Review by zabo
Oh boy, what a bomb. Thanks a lot SaibotZtar for this mega split. I've wanted to try exactly this one for a long time. It's enough to say briefly here that, as already written above, it's simply a bomb.
Review by Mike H.
Quite the fruit bomb. Lovely. The alcohol is extremely well integrated. Now I need to find a bottle at a decent price 😂
Review by Gunnar Böhme "Bauerngaumen" 🤓
What a perfectly balanced hummingbird! That should really be more than 70% vol. Never! 😋😋😋
Review by Chrischi78
What a fantastic bottling! Here classic Jamaica funk meets intense esters, finely integrated wood and a strong spice – simply a rum full of character. The nose is already promising: complex, deep and only slightly marked by the power of 70% ABV. On the palate then a real experience – oily and creamy, at the same time with astringent freshness and a great play of aromas of tropical fruits, glue and woody notes. The alcohol is excellently integrated and carries the aromas instead of covering them up. A long, multi-layered finish perfectly rounds off this outstanding rum. Huge thanks to saibotzar for this magnificent split – absolute top class!
Review by cigares
A rather lively nose with pineapple, esters, fermented notes, yellow fruits (pear) and an old varnished wood side. The palate attacks vigorously, with fermented fruits, old varnished wood and a warm, almost dirty side. A smoky note appears in the finish, long but like this rum, a bit one-dimensional. For itself a very nice rum, with perfectly integrated alcohol, but compared to other old Hampdens low esters, it seems to lack a bit of complexity to be ranked among the best.
Review by LukaŽiga
9:On the nose, intense with medicinal notes like esters and glue, solvents, funky, fermented tropical fruits like banana and pineapple, mango, overripe, citrus fruits, vinegar hints, roasted wood notes, sweet, like pastry, caramelized, spicy with allspice, briny olive, bump into our nosetrils, concentrated. On aeration, cherries, strawberry arise, dried fruits, molasses is vegetal with tomatoes, floral, grassy with hay, thick, smoky, dairy hints join-cheese, fruitcake. 8,9:On the palate, the attack is strong with medicinal notes like esters, glue, rubber, menthol hints, fruity with fermented, overripe tropical fruits like banana and pineapple, mango, red fruits with strawberry, citrus fruits, later apricot, dried fruits, candied, molasses is vegetal with briny olive, oily, thick, syrupy, minty and the wood is roasted with caramel, cocoa, pastry, spicy with allspice.When the rum is well rested, chemical hints arise. 8,9:The finish is long, dry and tannic, smoky, chemical, medicinal, cognac barrel impact is obvious, fruity with overripe tropical fruits like banana and pineapple, dried, candied fruits, molasses is minty, vegetal with briny olive and the wood is roasted with caramel, chocolate, roasted nuts..
Review by Tom Buteneers
Very chemical/medicinal at first, takes some time for the fruity notes to come forward and even some hints of pastry after a while. On the tongue it’s much more Hampden. The alcohol is very well integrated, I would never guessed it to be 70,3%. The finish is very long. I like it a lot, too bad I’ve only got a 5cl sample.
Review by Thomas Wille
Beeindruckender Hampden mit auf den ersten Blick brachialen 70,3%vol. Davon merkt man aber nach einer guten Zeit im Glas so gut wie gar nix. Super eingebunden . Viele unterschiedliche Aromen, die alle zu begeistern wissen. Ausnahme Hampden !!
Review by Timo Groeger
Crazy stuff this Hampden, the 70% almost imperceptible. Great nose, tropical fruits, banana, pineapple and ester, but also funky and solvent. On the palate, the tropical fruits taste overripe. Really top.
Review by Banana Joe
Wow, what a board. Insanely complex, great fruit basket, dominant wood, but that's what I like here. Tropically matured Hampdens don't really exist, so it's probably unique. Overall very round and the 70%!!! Top integrated. Once again a big thank you to @mto75 for the sample.
Review by Santo
Extremely flavorful, intense and complex concentration. The alcohol is incredibly well integrated. This rum is surprisingly high quality! Premium Plantation.
Review by Piotr Ignasiak
Nice tasty beast. Full round nose, on palate fruitiness is balanced by noticeable woodiness, some sulphur counterpoint, which is not to my liking but it's quite subdued.
Review by Serge
Very good Hampden with plenty of steam. Enough wood, enough fruit and a nice sweetness accompany the esters. Acidity is also not too present. And a wonderfully long finish. I like it very much. Cognac finish fits too, I think.
Review by Alexander Rasch
Was allowed to try this great rum last week in Stuttgart. An absolute grenade. Alcohol perfectly integrated and a nice round Hampden profile. The high alcohol makes the rum complex and warm. Description only with memory log 😅🤷♂️
Review by ccajerem
👃 on sent qu'on a en face de nous un solide gaillard prêt à nous plaquer le palais. Après une grosse aération de plus de 10 minutes, les notes de solvant s'estompent et laissent place à des notes d'olive, de fruits mûrs et de bonbon anglais. 👄 l'intensité aromatique en bouche ne laisse pas indifférent. C'est puissant mais maîtrisé. Les arômes sont dans la continuité de ceux du 👃. A l'aveugle on pourrait se croire en présence d'un savanna grand arôme. Finale très longue. Un must have pour les amateurs de savanna grand arôme et de heavy jamaicains. S'il y avait marqué Velier sur la bouteille elle serait déjà à des prix délirants.
Review by Mentalo
Compared to the already good Old Brothers/The Nectar HJF bottling, this is simply another level better. Didn't expect that from Plantation. Really strong.
Review by Joël
Very cool and really drinkable for 70%. 1A Hampden!
Review by Filip Šikula
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Review by alex
Enormous 🤩🤩🤩 Superb Hampden, certainly one of the best I have tasted. Big aromatic punch, alcohol perfectly integrated, magnificently long length... a must have in my collection if I find a bottle!!! 😍😍😍
Review by Master P
A very awesome Plantation, slipped into my top 3. Sweet and fruity and that at this strength. 👌
Review by Jonas
Absolute exceptional bottling. Respect!
Review by mick
On ne fais pas dans la finesse avec cette abv, mais ce jus le merite , direct sur le podium avec la cuvee addict et le Kong, un jus de fou, a boire en fin de line-up car le marqueur puant s installe dans la bouche de facon omnipresente, le seul rhum qui pourrait le couvrir serais un gros mhoba ou un blanc herr savanna , rum de fou à posseder absoluement pour les amoureux de hampden
Review by Buddudharma
Great Hampden that combines the typical markers with the heaviness of tropical aging. And all this is finely balanced and with amazingly well integrated alcohol.
Review by Hood
Plantation Jamaica 2002 Hampden HJF Conquête 70.3%, 354 bottles: Ok, finally a much more powerful nose, candied fruits and petroleum. After airing, the petroleum is still very present, but you also feel spices. The nose is complex and I like it a lot. Lively on the palate but not too much, almost balanced. Tar and very ripe banana, it's really a treat. We find the funky side of Hampden, with beautiful power but well controlled. I really like the taste of banana on the finish, with a hint of tar left.
Review by Chrizzz84
Wow, what an interplay of aromas. Esters with earthy aromas dominate at first. After 5 minutes in the glass, fresh tobacco leaves or a freshly rolled cigar take over. After another 10 minutes, the tobacco leaves take over completely. Really a great nose. Shortly afterwards, fresh Medjool dates and rum raisins. This combination is wonderful. The alcohol is there but doesn't interfere at all. Pure, the dates and tobacco dominate. The pineapple comes out at the end and it becomes earthier again. Pressed down to 58-60% with water. But displaces the great tobacco flavors. So best pure. I could have sniffed for minutes because of the tobacco leaves. Top
Review by Richard Krupa
Ubiquitous pineapple and beautiful strong esters with it.
Review by Pavel Ungr, RumRock
Vintage 2002. With 8.4 out of 10, it's a very good bottle, though not the top of my ranking.
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What did the community pay for Hampden Plantation Jamaica HJF 2002?
Community paid 165–259 €.
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Details about Hampden Plantation Jamaica HJF 2002
A Pot Still Rum from Jamaica, bottled by Maison Ferrand, at 70,3%.
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