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Samaroli Hampden Caksus Jamaica Rum (Recalled) DOK 2009
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Curious drinkers who love a good mystery in the glass will get a kick out of this one. Labeled DOK, but almost nobody tastes a DOK: expect leather, tobacco, burnt sugar and dried apricot, with roasty, woody depth that reads more Demerara than Hampden ester bomb. The high-ester funk you'd expect is faint. Tasty and warm, just not the fruit-and-glue Jamaican the label promises.
The community says- Leather and tobacco depth
- Dried apricot notes
- But: Missing DOK funk
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How does Samaroli Hampden Caksus Jamaica Rum (Recalled) DOK 2009 taste?
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Mislabeled DOK, tastes dark and woody Members agree on one thing: it doesn't taste like a DOK. Most peg it as a woody, leathery Demerara. Good rum, but the classic Hampden funk is missing.
Rum geeks who enjoy a blind-tasting puzzle and dark, woody profiles
Anyone chasing bright Hampden ester and banana-pineapple funk
Style & occasion: Mature & oakySipping neat
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Positive from 8.0 · Mixed 6.0–7.9 · Critical below 6.0
Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Most helpful positive review
05.08.2022 A nice afternoon with other rum geeks and an evening visiting a few bars. Notres Light in colour. Nose Intense, fruity, faint wood, ester, polish, light marzipan, light pineapple. Palate Intense, warm, fruity, ester, light pineapple, light banana, overripe, faint marzipan, light polish., light olive, faint salt. Finish Long and warm, fruity, ester, medium dry, light marzipan, light pineapple,
Review by Johannes
Most helpful mixed review
I'm curious if at some point it will come out what was really in it. My guess is either a Monymusk or a Hampden OWH. In principle, a good rum that lacks some character.
Review by Thunderbird
A DOK is definitely not! I do not even think that is a Jamaican... maybe a blend with Long Pond... if this nose with great fruit would have persisted on the palate, it would have been a really great rum! Unfortunately, however, the palate can not keep up... it is not complex and intense enough... too bad! But good he is nevertheless!
Review by LukaŽiga
8,7:On the nose, medicinal with some esters, fermented, overripe tropical fruits like banana, kiwi, green fruits with pear, apple, dairy notes like cream, buttery, flowery, grassy molasses, toasted wood notes like sandal, nutty, spicy with allspice, ginger, bump into our nosetrils. On aeration, dried apricots arise, nutmeg, anise, molasses is vegetal with hay, chamomile, earthy with tobacco, herbaceous. 8,7:On the palate, the attack is medicinal with esters, fruity with green, tropical fruits like banana and pineapple, creamy with dairy, wood is toasted with burnt sugar, leather, mraty with bacon, smoky, spicy with anise, allspice, ginger, vanilla, tannic, dry, molasses is floral, grassy, vegetal, briny, slightly herbaceous, minty, earthy with tobacco, sweet with honey. 8,6:The finish is medium long, dry, fruity with tropical, dried fruits, molasses is vegetal with thyme, oak is toasted, charred with cocoa, chocolate, fudge, roasted nuts, sweet with pastry, buttery, spicy, smoky, meaty, slightly medicinal, rubber is burnt. Edit:4.10.26, an upgrade, oxidation helps a lot
Review by Frank
I would not necessarily have recognized as DOK. Much more fruity and sweet, almost floral on the nose. The esters are there, but not overpowering everything. I find more papaya and kiwi here instead of pineapple and banana. Sweetness of orange syrup comes in and even a hint of tobacco. Very unusual.Also unusual on the palate for a DOK: spicy-woody up front, only then do the esters come in. At first, licorice and mint are discernible for me. Slightly bitter and toasty-bacony it is. In the back out even a little grassy.licorice and something grassy also in the finish.Can not actually believe that this is a Hampden and even a DOK should be!?!?!! Would have rather put it with Clarendon. (Although he is not bad, even quite tasty).
Review by Timo Groeger
Solid Hampden, nothing particularly good, but also nothing particularly bad. It's a bit different, nose of tobacco, leather and apple. On the palate at first burnt sugar, but since it is supposed to be a DOK, of course esters too (but not as strong as expected). Also very roasted and leathery. Unfortunately banana and pineapple are missing :( Weird Hampden.
Review by Skyfly
Thanks to Tobi for the two 2005 DOKs from Samaroli in the glass. Although this one says DOK, it tastes like a Demerara with leather, tobacco, burnt sugar, lots of wood and some dried apricot. In the end, both are not bad rums and surprisingly different.
Review by Lukas Jäger
The big mix-up in the glass: DOK is on it, Demerara is in it. Unfortunately, nothing more is known. My tip would go to Versailles and not a bad one. On the nose notes of burnt sugar, some spices, pleasant fruitiness. On the palate, however, much darker. Roasted aromas give the rum a dark, deep undertone that I didn't expect. More wood and thus probably more years on the hump than I would have suspected after the nose.Long finish, which becomes very dry and thus underlines the palate again. In my eyes, not worse than the expected DOK, but of course a completely different corner!
Review by Rhum Mirror 🇧🇪
So DOK or not DOK? Well, not DOK actually! This bottle was mislabeled and had to be recalled by Samaroli. But what does this bottle actually contain? Nose: caramelized molasses/spices/dried apricot Taste: woody/smoky/tobacco (so it's not a very young rum) Dry and long finish on coffee. But the mystery is and will remain a mystery even if I will be curious to know the real origin of this bottling. But what is most important in the end: it's good! Thanks again to Min for this gift which allowed us to have a good laugh while trapping our participants! PS: this DOK 2009 (Fût n°15 - 60%) was originally a duo box
Review by Vincent D
The first ones who opened this bottle must have seriously wondered about it.it has nothing of a Jamaican.it is rather on the side of Guyana, on a heavy and robust rum on which leather, tobacco and wood dominate.at the end of the mouth, one has literally an Espresso in mouth.Too bad that the alcohol is too present.
Review by zabo
In a direct comparison thanks to SaibotZtars Samaroli Split the two DOKs. My conclusion is that both are rather in the mid-range. The RX11437 has a bit more punch compared to the RX11438. Not bad, but there is better from the vintage. But with this one I missed the DOK funk.
Review by Adrian Wahl
So for me the nose is more Worthy Park and therefore Jamaica instead of Demerara, but I guess we will never know
Review by Pavel Spacek
DOK s acetonem. Umirneny, presto chutny
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14 bottles logged by 13 collectors.
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21% opened, 3 emptied.
What did the community pay for Samaroli Hampden Caksus Jamaica Rum (Recalled) DOK 2009?
Community paid 134–154 €.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 148 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ ›
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Details about Samaroli Hampden Caksus Jamaica Rum (Recalled) DOK 2009
A Pot Still Rum from Jamaica, bottled by Samaroli, at 60%.
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