Habitation Velier Hampden HLCF 2010

This is true love💖 🥃😋 Owning this bottle makes me so happy. I have a hard time grasping how to to find a better rum from any other than Hampden. Yes, the C<>H is better but this is really close. - had to taste this rum too today as I just got the new HLCF Classic and this rum is still on a totally different level. just love it 😍😋 - Another year since last tasting and this is just fantastic. 😍😍

And finally, the Hampden from Habitation Velier. Is it really that good? Yes, it definitely is :) Great Jamaican, outstanding aromas on the nose and palate. Esters, tropical fruits like banana and pineapple. Also some glue. Extremely good.

Je ne suis pas objectif sur les hampden tellement j’aime ça. En dessous du c h mais tellement bon aussi 😍 Avec un petit 68 degrés j’adore. C’est parfait pour moi 😍🤩😍bref encore une bombe gustative que j’ai plaisir à déguster de temps en temps ❤️

Once rested this is a lovely rum. Intense from nose to finish. Fruity with nice chemical notes and a long warm finish. My favourite of the day 😊

It's quite exceptional on the nose as well as on the palate. 💣🇯🇲💥 I'm coming back to it after a few years and frankly even though my experience with jams has improved I'm still as impressed by the balance of both the nose and the palate. When well aerated at the end of the bottle, it's a delight.

Horny tropical ripeness. Powerful, intense, complex, overripe fruit basket, vanilla, raspberry. Hampden in its purest form.

A formidable rum of complexity for its young age. We find in the nose the classic notes of the Jamaican funk with the very ripe tropical fruits, the citrus fruits, the phenolic notes with the esters, the solvents and the glue, but also woody and spicy notes which decorate the whole. In mouth, it is a real festival of fruits so much they invest the palate. Then come the phenolic notes, the floral notes then the spices and the wood. It is a real aromatic concentrate, with an extreme degree and surprisingly round, soft and complex. The finish is very long and persistent with a very subtle saline touch that gives depth to the mouth. A heavy rum, intense and of a rare elegance.

Wow, great tropical Hampden board. A rum like a poem with ups and downs.

great, tropically matured HD! No ester circular saw, but with beautiful butter cookie notes, milk cream, toffee and tropical fruit basket. Roasty on the palate, espresso. Long finish with old wooden barrel.

This is a second time around. Didn't leave a review the first time. Ripe fruit, pineapple and buttermilk on the nose. On the palate, oooh this is nice and balanced. The ripeness of fruit is matched sweetness and spiciness. You have to respect the strength but this is very nice. Moving up a point.

for 6y young and 68.5% extremely mild and quaffable. quite great cinema! taste as smell Same same: overripe pineapple and banana, vanilla pulp, a lot of ester but not too much, brioche and cookie dough, salty honey croissant with grapefruit jam.extremely horny and dangerously quaffable !⚡

Update 02/2023.tasting against Rare Cask HLCF

Very cool HLCF ... from memory also better than the Rare Cask. Grilled pineapple, almond/marzipan, wood, spices and a nice dark sweetness with a wonderful mouthfeel. HLCF is not the greatest brand, but this rum is delicious.

Glue and alcohol on the first nose, then the other flavors emerge. Lactic, varnish, blood orange and other citrus fruits. A slightly bumpy start to the palate, then everything calms down and falls into place. Lots of fruit, and the lactic on the nose has turned into raclette cheese. The finish is long on a sort of sour milk candy and oil. Varied and surprising aromas, not to say jarring, and yet I really like this singular rum.

In der Nase kommt er zwar kräftig aber noch vergleichsweise mild daher. Im Geschmack entfaltet sich dann die volle Esterbombe der man leider auch den Alkohol durchaus anmerkt. Neben den intensiven tropischen Fruchtnoten auch etwas Himbeere und im Abgang auch angenehme Holznoten. Für 90 und mehr Punkte fehlt eine bessere Integration des Alkohol was bei der kurzen Lagerung natürlich schwierig ist. Krass geiler Mai Tai Rum.