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Habitation Velier Hampden Single Cask Selected by LMDW <>H 2010
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Poured neat is the only way to meet this one: at 69.2% the nose fills the room before you sip, all pineapple, glue and banana with young oak underneath. Tasters call it a "bombe esterisée" — cinnamon-cookie fruit, brown sugar, a touch of olive and leather on a long finish. The ABV integrates well, though a couple found it a bit one-dimensional.
The community says- Big ester punch
- Pineapple and pastry
- ABV well integrated
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How does Habitation Velier Hampden Single Cask Selected by LMDW <>H 2010 taste?
Summarized by AI from 21 community reviews.
Powerful, pineapple-driven Hampden ester bomb Widely loved as one of the better <>H marks — pineapple, esters and pastry over young wood, with the cask strength beautifully tamed. A few call it slightly one-note.
Hampden fans who want a full-throttle pineapple-ester pot still
Anyone new to funk or wary of very high ABV
Style & occasion: Tropical & funkySipping neat
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Review by Kevin Sorensen 🇩🇰
Enjoying a RumX Chairman's reserve while writing about the three samples I cracked open earlier today. A very nice Hampden and the nose arrives as soon as you open the bottme/sample. Fruity with light wood and spices. Well balanced in the ABV. Thr empty glass is wonderful with nice and strong flavours.
Review by Mike H.
89 points. Solvents, tropical fruit, funk, pastries, wood and brown sugar. A little olive in the finish. Extremely round. Very nice but certainly not worth today’s price of admission.
Review by Thunderbird
This <>H is really a beast... the nose is captivating. The aroma fills the room immediately. You just can't escape it. The palate is wild and funky, and you can definitely feel the ABV at first. But it quickly calms down. Then the fruit and ester notes come through very clearly, followed by young wood. This woody note continues strongly in the finish. Top-notch bottling.
Review by Paul Christiaens
Verdict: a superb bottling. It's very complex, with the perfect balance of tropical aging and the hogj-ester distillate. It gives you esters, fruit, sweet, and wood/roasted in an almost similar amount. Simply adorable. Nose: very well integrated nose. Quite some wood, roasted, custard, banana. Pineapple, banana, olive, varnish, baking goods, molasses and even raisin, leather, tobacco. Palate: incredible. You hardly notice the ABV. Very roasted, woody, with baking spice, cinnamon. A bit of liquorice even, before banana, almond and the esters kick in. Olive on brine, pickled lemon, tobacco, leather. Finish: so good, long and powerful. It's a prolonged experience of the palate.
Review by DaveLamb
good. Typical hampden, intuitive pineapple flavor, but also means homogeneity. It has a good length of finish, but a little bit less complicated. solvents, tropical fruits (with their sour) and baked pastries are overwhelming, cover the rest. And alcohol doesn't integrate very well, so masks some other delightful elements under the interference of alcohol. Regardless of ester content, this lack of flavor is really unacceptable. In addition, the price is seriously off the ground. too expensive, not worth for me.
Review by Jarek
Ohhh... very tasty, of the four samples pictured in the photo this one is my favorite. Maybe also because it has the most power and outshines the other three. The glue notes are strongest here, plus nice fruit, pleasant sweetness, notes of pastry. I'd like more of this.
Review by zabo
The last one at the Hampden tasting evening. For me the real winner, although the marks were quite different. Brings everything I expected and gave the evening a worthy conclusion.
Review by Martin Spooner
The nose is relatively gentle and already round. Also well balanced with pineapple. On the palate really a nice experience of cinnamon cookie pineapple with a nice sweetness.. Very drinkable. Nice finish. A great drop.
Review by Pavel Spacek
... Hampden, the legendary Jamaican distillery that produces rum as well as alcohol for perfume. In all the rums from this distillery you will taste wild esters, after which your whole organism will soak up the smell of golden tropical fruits - mango, papaya, pineapple, peach. One of the "must try before you die" rums
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Expert review by The Dunder Hut
Quite a trip and restarting it tonight, some of the magic went away. Sadly this does not hold the excellent review I gave it the first time. Still a very good ,<>H that is so much better than the worst of this mark can do
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23 bottles logged by 22 collectors.
A collector's bottle.
8% opened, 1 emptied.
What did the community pay for Habitation Velier Hampden Single Cask Selected by LMDW <>H 2010?
Community paid 173–668 €.
Purchase prices reported by members, not a shop price. Avg. 416 €. Full price & collection history in RX+ →
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Details about Habitation Velier Hampden Single Cask Selected by LMDW <>H 2010
A Pot Still Rum from Jamaica, bottled by Habitation Velier, at 69.2%.
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