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TRC Hampden Jamaica HLCF 1998 50cl bottle
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Aged rum · 16 years · 64.3%

TRC Hampden Jamaica HLCF 1998

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How does TRC Hampden Jamaica HLCF 1998 taste?

Aggregated from 8 community reviews.

Style & occasion: Tropical & funky

Full aroma profile Aroma families · nose & palate · top aromas

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What does the community say?

8.8/10 Very good

8 community reviews
2 selected write-ups on this page, all of them in the RumX app

Top 12% of Jamaica rumsTop 18% at Hampden

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8–9 100%
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Review by Christoph H.

Christoph H.
Apr 2026103 reviewsGermany
8.8/10

Quite a beast! Very fruity nose, still feels very young and fresh. I really like that, but it also makes it a bit one-dimensional. Earthy aromas, spiciness, and the cask are very subtly noticeable. Alongside green apple, tropical fruits, and citrus marmalade, there's also a lot of solvent and acidity, but also sweetness like marzipan and molasses. On the palate, the fruit clearly dominates again, very intense, strong, creamy but not quite as mouth-filling as other representatives... something's somehow missing... The finish is only medium-length and a bit disappointing.

Review by Pavel Spacek

Pavel Spacek
Dec 20241,879 reviewsCzech
8.2/10

... 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"

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Community shelf

13 bottles logged by 12 collectors.

Both drunk and collected.

23% opened, 2 emptied.

10 sealed 1 open 2 emptied

What did the community pay for TRC Hampden Jamaica HLCF 1998?

Avg. community purchase price 50 €.

What members paid for this bottle, self-reported. Not a market value — the purchases are over three years old at the median and unverified.

13 purchased · 8 tasted · 3 wishlist · as of

Details about TRC Hampden Jamaica HLCF 1998

A Pot Still Rum from Jamaica, bottled by The Rum Cask, at 64.3%.

DistilleryHampden
CountryJamaica
CategoryPot Still Rum
Raw materialMolasses
DistillationPot Still
ABV64.3%
Age16 years
Vintage1998
Limited edition200 bottles
MarkHLCF
Sugar0 g/L
Volume50cl

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9.0–10.0 Excellent Stash as many as you can afford. Tell no one.
8.0–8.9 Very good your rum Bank a backup. Tell everyone you meet.
7.0–7.9 Good Buy one and recommend it to your friends.
6.0–6.9 Pleasant Solid, super glad I drank it.
5.0–5.9 Average Totally acceptable.
4.0–4.9 Drinkable Not vocally complaining.
3.0–3.9 Poor Wish I was drinking something else.
2.0–2.9 Very poor Nothing nice to say.
1.0–1.9 Unpleasant No, that's not for me.
0.1–0.9 Inedible Pour it out.